Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Buin Daejeon Yangbang (婦人大全良方)

Solitary Sage Decoction

Dokseong-tang

한글 독성탕 · Pinyin Du Sheng Tang

獨聖湯

Composition 構成

Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

12 g
Chief 君

當歸末三錢, powdered

Total 12 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats the hundred diseases of women
Treats abdominal pain after delivery with a single drug

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Abdominal pain after delivery
Blood stasis with stabbing pain in a woman

Biomedical correlates

Postpartum abdominal pain
Dysmenorrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

當歸, 治婦人百病, 又治産後腹痛. 當歸末三錢, 水煎服, 名獨聖湯. 《良方》 ○血刺痛, 用當歸, 乃和血之藥. 若血積刺痛, 宜用桃仁ㆍ紅花ㆍ當歸頭. 《丹心》

Translation

Korean angelica treats the hundred diseases of women, and treats abdominal pain after delivery. Powdered angelica 3 don, decocted in water and taken. It is called Dokseong-tang (Yangbang 良方). ○ For the stabbing pain of blood, angelica is used, being a drug that harmonizes the blood. Where the stabbing pain is from accumulated blood, peach kernel, carthamus and the head of the angelica root should be used. (Dansim 丹心)

Clinical commentary 臨床

獨聖, the solitary sage — one drug alone, and the corpus reserves that name for a single medicinal held to answer a whole class of complaint. 治婦人百病, treating the hundred diseases of women, is the broadest claim in the Women chapter and angelica is the drug that carries it: it appears in more formulas in that chapter than anything else. The distinction appended from Danxi is the useful part — angelica for a pain in the blood, peach kernel and carthamus where the blood has accumulated. A formula of this name from the Internal Damage chapter, built on tangerine peel, is registered separately as dokseong-tang-naesang. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.