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Restrict the Fountain Pill

Chukcheon-hwan

한글 축천환  ·  Pinyin Suo Quan Wan

縮泉元

The leaf head reads 縮泉元 and that is the name printed here; the romanisation and the id follow 縮泉丸. The source is the Immun, as the leaf gives it, not the Buin Yangbang.

Composition 構成

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

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Bladder deficiency cold with frequent clear urination
  • Nocturia or enuresis
  • Urinary frequency worse with cold and fatigue

Biomedical correlates

  • Nocturia
  • Pediatric enuresis
  • Overactive bladder with cold pattern

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脬氣不足, 小便頻數, 一日百餘次. 烏藥ㆍ益智仁 等分. 爲末, 酒煮山藥糊和丸梧子大, 臨臥鹽湯下七十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats insufficiency of the bladder qi with frequent urination, a hundred times and more in a day. Lindera and alpinia seed, equal parts. Powder them, make pills the size of a parasol-tree seed with Chinese yam paste boiled in wine, and take seventy at bedtime down with salt decoction. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sobyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Restricting the fountain — Ikjiin holds, Oyak warms the Bladder Qi, and Sanyak binds the pill while tonifying the Kidney that leaks. Three herbs for the bladder that wakes its owner nightly. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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