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Minor Glue and Mugwort Decoction

Sogyoae-tang

한글 소교애탕 · Pinyin Xiao Jiao Ai Tang

小膠艾湯

Cut and made into one packet, decocted in water and taken. **Note on modern practice: any bleeding in pregnancy requires prompt obstetric evaluation. Recorded as classical text.**

Composition 構成

Aeyeop Ai Ye
艾葉 애엽 · Mugwort Leaf

16 g
Chief 君
Agyo E Jiao
阿膠 아교 · Donkey-hide Gelatin

8 g
Chief 君 pearled

Total 24 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Stops the bleeding of a stirring pregnancy with two ingredients

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Fetal stirring with blood descending (胎動下血)
Bleeding in pregnancy
The simplest of the glue-and-mugwort family

Biomedical correlates

Bleeding in pregnancy — historical management
Threatened miscarriage with bleeding
Obstetric care of the era

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治胎動下血. 阿膠珠二錢, 艾葉四錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats fetal stirring with blood descending. Pearled ass-hide glue 2 don; mugwort leaf 4 don. Cut the pair, make one packet, decoct in water and take. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two ingredients and nothing else — mugwort at double the glue, warming and stopping while the glue seals. The whole glue-and-mugwort family named in this chapter's bleeding list descends from this pair, and seeing it stripped to two makes the logic plain: warm the cold that lets blood escape, and seal the vessel it is escaping from. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.