Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Five Steamings Decoction

Ojeung-tang

한글 오증탕 · Pinyin Wu Zheng Tang

五蒸湯

Cut and made into one packet with 7 bamboo leaves, 1 hop of polished rice, and 2 hop of wheat, decocted together and taken.

Composition 構成

Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

8 g
Chief 君
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

6 g
Deputy 臣
Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

6 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

4 g
Assistant 佐
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Assistant 佐
Somaek Xiao Mai
小麥 소맥 · Wheat

40 g
Envoy 使 2 hop
Gaengmi Jing Mi
粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice

20 g
Envoy 使 1 hop
Jukyeop Zhu Ye
竹葉 죽엽 · Bamboo Leaf

3 g
Envoy 使 7 leaves
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使 raw

Total 101 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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

Cools the steaming-bone heat while the fluids it has spent are restored
Protects the stomach with rice and wheat in the pot

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Steaming-bone heat with tidal fever (骨蒸潮熱)
A rapid pulse with dry mouth and vexed agitation (脉數口乾煩躁)
Chronic wasting fever with thirst

Biomedical correlates

Chronic fever with dehydration
Wasting illness with fever — historical
Persistent low-grade fever with thirst

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治骨蒸, 潮熱, 脉數, 口乾煩躁. 石膏二錢, 生地黃ㆍ乾葛各一錢半, 人參ㆍ知母ㆍ黃芩ㆍ赤茯苓各一錢, 甘草(生) 五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入竹葉七片ㆍ粳米一合ㆍ小麥二合, 同煎服. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats steaming-bone heat with tidal fever, a rapid pulse, dry mouth, and vexed agitation. Gypsum 2 don; raw rehmannia and kudzu root, 1.5 don each; ginseng, anemarrhena, scutellaria, and red poria, 1 don each; raw licorice 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, add 7 bamboo leaves, 1 hop of polished rice, and 2 hop of wheat, decoct together and take. — Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Named for the five kinds of steaming the chapter distinguishes, and built on the White Tiger frame — but with two hop of wheat and one of rice in the pot alongside the gypsum. Those grains are not filler: in a patient wasted by months of fever, a cold formula given alone would finish what the illness started, and the tradition puts the food in the decoction rather than beside it. Wheat in particular is the classical grain for a restless, sweating, hollow patient. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.