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Chuanxiong and Perilla Powder

Gungso-san

한글 궁소산  ·  Pinyin Xiong Su San

芎蘇散

Composition 構成

Total 40 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Cold contracted in pregnancy with an exterior pattern

Biomedical correlates

  • Common cold in pregnancy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

川芎ㆍ紫蘇葉ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ白朮ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ陳皮ㆍ乾葛 各一錢, 甘草 五分. 右剉作一貼, 入薑五, 葱白三莖, 水煎服. 《濟生》

Translation

Chuanxiong, perilla leaf, white peony, white atractylodes, ophiopogon, tangerine peel and dried pueraria 1 don each; licorice 5 pun. Cut up, make one packet, add 5 slices of ginger and three stalks of scallion white, decoct in water and take. — Jesaeng 濟生 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Perilla leaf and pueraria open the exterior gently where ephedra and cinnamon twig would be too forceful; white atractylodes and peony hold the centre while they do it. The Sweating chapter's prohibitions at Han 7.8 do not name pregnancy, but this section assumes it — nothing in the whole of 1.28 promotes a strong sweat. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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