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title: "Xu Duan"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/627/xu-duan"
---

 ![xu duan, dipsaci radix.jpg](/u/xu-duan-dipsaci-radix-eGQjIN.jpg) 

# Xu Duan

### Dispaci Radix

_acrid, bitter, sweet, slightly warm_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Tonify Yang**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Low back pain
- Weakness and stiffness of joints
- Threatened miscarriage
- Uterine bleeding
- Vaginal discharge
- Pain and swelling from trauma
- Urinary dribbling

Xu Duan improves blood circulation and is slightly warm which
helps cold arthritic patterns and soft tissue traumas. It can also
ease a restless fetus that is threatening to miscarry if the
underlying pattern is cold in the uterus.
It enters the liver and kidney system with a sweet quality to
nourish hormone production from the adrenal glands.

**Channels:** kidney, liver

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Arthritis
- Hemorrhoids
- Tendon and ligament injuries
- Lumbago
- Analgesia
- Leukorrhea
- Menorrhagia
- Prevention of miscarriage
- Carbuncles
- Bone fractures
- Dysmenorrhea

**Formulas:**
- Ai Fu Nuan Gong Wan
- An Chong Tang
- Bao Yin Jian
- Bu Shen Gu Chong Wan
- Shou Tai Wan
- Tai Shan Pan Shi San

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Xu Duan to patients that
present with wind-damp-heat patterns

**Zoo Image:** pregnant conjoined grizzly bears are in the hospital for a checkup,
they sing to calm their fetus, the doctor slips on their discharge and hurts his
back

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