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Eucommia and Dipsacus Pill

Dusok-hwan

한글 두속환  ·  Pinyin Du Xu Wan

杜續丸

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

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)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two herbs, both named for what they do to broken things — eucommia for the lumbus, dipsacus, 'the mender of what is severed,' for the connection itself. The chapter's most economical statement of its obstetric doctrine: in pregnancy the lower back and the pregnancy are the same structure, and securing one secures the other. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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