Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Danggye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Drain Dampness Decoction

Saseup-tang

한글 사습탕 · Pinyin Xie Shi Tang

瀉濕湯

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

12 g
Chief 君

stir-fried
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

8 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

6 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

4 g
Assistant 佐
Seungma Sheng Ma
升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 32 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats the cavernous diarrhoea that pours straight through

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp in the spleen with a pouring watery stool
Spleen vacuity with sunken yang

Biomedical correlates

Secretory diarrhoea
Chronic enteritis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治洞泄. 白朮(炒) 三錢, 白芍藥(炒) 二錢, 陳皮(炒) 一錢半, 防風一錢, 升麻五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服之. ○此劉草窓治洞泄要方也. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats the cavernous diarrhoea. Stir-fried white atractylodes, 3 don; stir-fried white peony, 2 don; stir-fried tangerine peel, 1.5 don; saposhnikovia, 1 don; cimicifuga, 5 fun. Cut up, make one packet and decoct in water. This is Liu Chuangchuang's essential formula for the cavernous diarrhoea. — Danggye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The cavernous diarrhoea is the chapter's name for a stool that runs straight through as if the bowel had no floor, and Liu Chuangchuang's answer to it is the formula that gave Dongwon's school its signature move: raise the yang with cimicifuga and saposhnikovia in small doses on top of a large dose of atractylodes. The idea is that a pouring diarrhoea is qi sinking rather than fluid in excess, so the treatment lifts instead of drains — and the chapter later gives a whole section to this principle. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.