Formulas · Purge Downward 瀉下 · Dansim (丹心)

Moisten the Intestine Decoction (Stool Not Passing)

Yunjang-tang

한글 윤장탕 (대변불통) · Pinyin Run Chang Tang

潤腸湯

A different 潤腸湯 from the Uigam's three-ingredient formula later in this same section, which is registered separately.

Composition 構成

Majain Huo Ma Ren
麻子仁 마자인 · Hemp Seed

—
Chief 君

a cupful and a half
Baekjima Bai Zhi Ma
白脂麻 백지마 · White Sesame

—
Chief 君

half a cupful
Doin Tao Ren
桃仁 도인 · Peach Kernel

40 g
Deputy 臣

ground to a paste
Hyeonggae Jing Jie
荊芥 형개 · Schizonepeta

40 g
Assistant 佐

spikes

Total 80 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Treats the stool bound and inhibited and long unpassed

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Fluid dryness with obstructed stool

Biomedical correlates

Habitual constipation
Faecal impaction

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治大便秘澁, 久不通. 麻子仁一盞半, 細硏水浸, 濾去皮取汁; 脂麻半盞, 細硏水浸, 約取汁; 桃仁一兩, 硏爲泥; 荊芥穗一兩, 擣爲末. 右和合, 入鹽少許, 同煎, 代茶飮之, 以大便通利爲度. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats the stool bound and inhibited and long unpassed. Hemp seed, a cupful and a half, ground fine, steeped in water, strained free of the husks and the juice taken; sesame, half a cupful, ground fine and steeped in water for its juice; peach kernel, 1 nyang, ground to a paste; schizonepeta spikes, 1 nyang, pounded to a powder. Mix them together, add a little salt, decoct, and drink it in place of tea until the stool passes freely. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three seed oils and a wind drug, with salt, drunk in place of tea until the bowel opens — which makes it a therapeutic drink rather than a dose. The instruction to take it until the stool passes freely puts the endpoint in the patient's hands, and since nothing in it is purgative there is little to go wrong. The salt is worth noting: a saline-and-oil drink is close to what an osmotic laxative does. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.