Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Evodia Decoction (Spleen Diarrhoea)

Osuyu-tang

한글 오수유탕 (비설) · Pinyin Wu Zhu Yu Tang

吳茱萸湯

A single-drug decoction, unrelated to the Sanghallon's 吳茱萸湯 of the same name, which is registered separately.

Composition 構成

Osuyu Wu Zhu Yu
吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia

20 g
Chief 君

picked clean; boiled in plain water, the dregs discarded

Total 20 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats spleen diarrhoea
Warms the bladder so that the water way is cleared and the large intestine secures itself

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold in the lower origin with a loose stool
Clear and turbid not separated

Biomedical correlates

Chronic diarrhoea with polyuria

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脾泄. 吳茱萸揀淨, 每五錢, 白水煮, 去滓, 入鹽少許, 通口服. 蓋茱萸能煖膀胱, 水道旣淸, 大腸自固, 餘藥雖熱, 不能分解淸濁也. 《得效》

Translation

Treats spleen diarrhoea. Evodia, picked clean, 5 don each time, boiled in plain water, the dregs discarded, a little salt added, and drunk off at a mouthful. For evodia can warm the bladder, and once the water way is cleared the large intestine secures itself; other drugs, warm though they be, cannot separate the clear from the turbid. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One drug, and the Deukhyo makes an argument for it: evodia warms the bladder, the urine then carries the water off, and the bowel secures itself — and no other warm drug can separate the clear from the turbid in this way. That is the chapter's water-redirection theory in its purest form, staked on a single ingredient. Evodia's rutaecarpine and evodiamine do have real gastrointestinal activity, slowing transit and reducing secretion, so a strong decoction of it may well have stopped a diarrhoea, though not by way of the bladder. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.