Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Eucommia and Dipsacus Pill
Dusok-hwan
한글 두속환 · Pinyin Du Xu Wan
The pair powdered and bound with jujube flesh into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 50–70 pills with thin rice water. Note on modern practice: any bleeding, cramping, or suspected threatened loss in pregnancy requires immediate evaluation by an obstetric provider; this entry is recorded for textual and historical interest.
Composition 構成
Total 160 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Quiets the stirring fetus and eases the aching lumbus
- Guards against a threatened loss with two Kidney herbs
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Fetal stirring and unrest with lumbar pain (胎動不安 腰痛)
- Threatened loss to be prevented (防其欲墮)
- Kidney insufficiency in pregnancy
Biomedical correlates
- Threatened miscarriage with low back pain — historical management
- Lumbar pain in pregnancy
- Kidney-supportive obstetric care of the era
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治胎動不安, 腰痛, 以此防其欲墮. 杜沖(炒)ㆍ續斷 各二兩. 右爲末, 棗肉和丸梧子大, 米飮下五七十丸. 《入門》
Translation
Treats fetal stirring and unrest with lumbar pain; by this, guard against its wishing to fall. Dry-fried eucommia and dipsacus, 2 nyang each. Powder the pair and bind with jujube flesh into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 50–70 pills with thin rice water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Buin)