Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Prepared Rehmannia Decoction

Sukjihwang-tang

한글 숙지황탕 · Pinyin Shu Di Huang Tang

熟地黃湯

Cut and made into one packet with 100 grains of glutinous rice, 3 slices of ginger, and 2 jujubes, decocted in water and taken. Note on modern practice: persistent thirst after birth with dizziness or reduced urine output may indicate dehydration or bleeding and requires assessment.

Composition 構成

Cheonhwabun Tian Hua Fen
天花粉 천화분 · Trichosanthes Root

8 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

6 g
Deputy 臣
Maekmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

6 g
Deputy 臣
Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Nami Nuo Mi
糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice

10 g
Envoy 使 100 grains
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使 3 slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

4 g
Envoy 使 2 pieces
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 46 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

Quenches the thirst of a body emptied by birth
Engenders fluids with trichosanthes root and rice

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Vacuity thirst after birth (産後虛渴)
Persistent thirst with weakness after delivery
Fluid depletion in recovery

Biomedical correlates

Postpartum dehydration and thirst
Recovery-phase fluid depletion
Thirst with fatigue after childbirth

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治産後虛渴. 天花粉二錢, 人參ㆍ麥門冬各一錢半, 熟地黃一錢, 甘草五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入糯米百粒, 薑三棗二, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats vacuity thirst after birth. Trichosanthes root 2 don; ginseng and ophiopogon, 1.5 don each; prepared rehmannia 1 don; licorice 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, add 100 grains of glutinous rice, 3 slices of ginger, and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Trichosanthes root at chief's rank is the tradition's most direct fluid-engendering herb, and the hundred grains of glutinous rice in the pot are doing the same job by another route. The formula is short and gentle by design: after a birth the chapter treats thirst as emptiness rather than heat, so nothing here is cold — it simply fills. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.