Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Samin (三因)

Oyster Shell Powder for Night Sweating

Moryeo-san

한글 모려산 (도한) · Pinyin Mu Li San

牡蠣散

Composition 構成

Moryeo Mu Li
牡蠣 모려 · Oyster Shell

40 g
Chief 君

calcined (煆)
Mahwanggeun Ma Huang Gen
麻黃根 마황근 · Ephedra Root

40 g
Chief 君
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

40 g
Deputy 臣
Busomaek Fu Xiao Mai
浮小麥 부소맥 · Light Wheat

—
Envoy 使

100 grains

Total 120 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Treats night sweating and spontaneous sweating

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Night sweats and spontaneous sweating

Biomedical correlates

Night sweats
Hyperhidrosis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治盜汗及自汗. 牡蠣(煆)ㆍ黃芪ㆍ麻黃根各等分. 右剉, 每五錢, 浮小麥百粒同煎服. 《三因》又牡蠣散, 治盜汗. 牡蠣粉ㆍ白朮ㆍ防風各等分, 爲末, 酒調服二錢, 汗卽止. 《類聚》

Translation

Treats night sweating and spontaneous sweating. Oyster shell (calcined), astragalus and ephedra root in equal parts. Cut up; for each 5 don, decoct with a hundred grains of light wheat. — Samin 三因 (Donguibogam · Jinaek) Another Oyster Shell Powder treats night sweating: oyster shell powder, white atractylodes and saposhnikovia in equal parts, powdered, and 2 don taken in wine — the sweat stops at once. — Yuchwi 類聚

Clinical commentary 臨床

The Deukhyo's Moryeo-san at 5.5 without anemarrhena — the three that hold, and nothing else. The chapter prints two versions of the same formula under 自汗 and 盜汗 because the tradition used it for both. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.