Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Jesaeng (濟生)

Kite's Head Pill

Chidu-hwan

한글 치두환 · Pinyin Chi Tou Wan

鴟頭丸

Composition 構成

Chidu Chi Tou
鴟頭 치두 · Kite's Head

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Chief 君

one head, burnt with its nature preserved
Hwangdan Huang Dan
黃丹 황단 · Red Lead (toxic)

20 g
Deputy 臣
Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

20 g
Assistant 佐

roasted with butter

Total 40 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Settles the spirit in epilepsy
Checks malign fits

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Withdrawal-epilepsy as a malign disease
Long-standing fits

Biomedical correlates

Epilepsy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治癲癎惡病. 鴟頭一枚(燒存性), 黃丹ㆍ皂莢(酥灸) 各五錢. 右爲末, 糯米糊和丸菉豆大, 飮下二三十丸. 《濟生》

Translation

Treats withdrawal-epilepsy as a malign disease. A kite's head, one (burnt with its nature preserved); minium and gleditsia pod (roasted with butter), 5 don each. Powder them, make pills the size of a mung bean with glutinous rice paste, and take twenty or thirty with a drink. — Jesaeng 濟生 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** 黃丹 is red lead, lead tetroxide. The kite is a protected bird of prey, and the thinking behind using its head is sympathetic rather than pharmacological — the bird that does not falter in flight against the disease that makes a man fall. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.