Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Jipryak (集略)

Elsholtzia and Poria Decoction

Yuryeong-tang

한글 여령탕 · Pinyin Ru Ling Tang

薷苓湯

Composition 構成

Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

4.8 g
Chief 君
Hyangyu Xiang Ru
香薷 향유 · Elsholtzia

4 g
Chief 君
Jeoryeong Zhu Ling
猪苓 저령 · Polyporus

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

4 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried in ginger juice
Baekpyeondu Bai Bian Dou
白扁豆 백편두 · Hyacinth Bean

4 g
Assistant 佐
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

4 g
Assistant 佐

prepared
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

1.2 g
Envoy 使

Total 34 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats summer-month diarrhoea on the point of becoming a dysentery

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Summerheat damp in the intestines
Damp heat diarrhoea turning bloody

Biomedical correlates

Summer gastroenteritis
Early bacillary dysentery

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治夏月泄瀉, 欲成痢. 澤瀉一錢二分, 猪苓ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ白朮ㆍ香薷ㆍ黃連(薑汁炒)ㆍ白萹豆ㆍ厚朴(製) 各一錢, 甘草三分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《集略》

Translation

Treats diarrhoea in the summer months that is about to become a dysentery. Alisma, 1 don 2 fun; polyporus, red poria, white atractylodes, elsholtzia, coptis stir-fried in ginger juice, hyacinth bean and prepared magnolia bark, 1 don each; licorice, 3 fun. Cut up, make one packet and decoct in water. — Jipryak 集略 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Oryeong-san's water-movers joined to Hyangyu-san's summerheat drugs, with coptis added. The indication is the sharp one — a summer diarrhoea on the point of turning into dysentery — and that is a real clinical moment: a watery summer diarrhoea that begins to pass blood and mucus has usually become an invasive bacterial infection. Coptis stir-fried in ginger juice is the chapter's standard way of giving berberine without its coldness, and berberine does have measurable antibacterial action against the organisms in question. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.