Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Dongwon (東垣)
Lindera Decoction
Oyak-tang
한글 오약탕 · Pinyin Wu Yao Tang
烏藥湯
Cut and decocted in water.
Composition 構成
- Hyangbuja香附子 향부자 · Cyperus8 g
Chief 君 - Oyak烏藥 오약 · Lindera6 g
Deputy 臣 - Danggui當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica4 g
Assistant 佐 - Mokhyang木香 목향 · Costus Root2 g
Assistant 佐 - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice2 g
Envoy 使
Total 22 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
- Eases the aching sea of Blood by moving the Qi that has bound it
- Works entirely through movers with nothing to build
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Pain of a woman's sea of Blood (婦人血海疼痛)
- Menstrual pain from Qi constraint
- Aching that shifts and eases with movement
Biomedical correlates
- Menstrual pain with a constrained quality
- Stress-associated pelvic pain
- Pain relieved by movement or warmth
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治婦人血海疼痛. 香附子 二錢, 烏藥 一錢半, 當歸 一錢, 木香ㆍ甘草 各五分. 右剉, 水煎服. 《東垣》
Translation
Treats pain of a woman's sea of Blood. Cyperus 2 don; lindera 1.5 don; Korean angelica 1 don; aucklandia and licorice, 5 fun each. Cut the above, decoct in water and take. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Po)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Five herbs and only one of them builds — this is a pure Qi formula for a pain the chapter reads as constraint rather than emptiness or stasis. Cyperus leads, lindera and aucklandia move the lower abdomen, and a single measure of angelica keeps the moving from drying. For the patient whose cramping eases when she walks or when heat is applied, which is the classical picture of constraint. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.