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Motherwort Paste

Ikmo-go

한글 익모고  ·  Pinyin Yi Mu Gao

益母膏

Composition 構成

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • The various diseases of pregnancy; transverse and breech presentation; a dead foetus that will not come out; a placenta that will not come down

Biomedical correlates

  • Obstetric complications
  • Retained placenta

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

一名返魂丹. 通治姙娠諸病, 及催生神效. 又治橫生逆産, 及死胎不出, 胞衣不下. 益母草<span class='sochu'>重午日, 不犯鐵器, 採取</span>洗淨搗取汁, 銀石器熬成膏. 右每取一大匙, 溫酒或白湯化下. 《丹心》

Translation

It is also called Return the Soul Elixir. It treats the various diseases of pregnancy generally and hastens the birth with spirit-like effect; it also treats transverse and breech presentation, a dead foetus that will not come out, and a placenta that will not come down. Motherwort <span class='sochu'>gathered on the Dano festival, without iron tools touching it</span>, washed clean, pounded for the juice, and reduced in a silver or stone vessel to a paste. Take one large spoonful at a time dissolved in warm wine or plain hot water. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The same plant and the same gathering rules as Ikmo-hwan at 1.20.13, made as a paste rather than as pills. 銀石器, a silver or stone vessel, continues the avoidance of iron through the reduction. 返魂丹, returning the soul, is the name both preparations share, and the chapter uses motherwort for more conditions than any other single medicinal in this book. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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