Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Yangbang (良方)
Hasten the Birth Elixir
Choesaeng-dan
한글 최생단 · Pinyin Cui Sheng Dan
The base is the brain of a rabbit taken in the twelfth month: the marrow is taken, the skin and membrane discarded, and it is ground to a paste — this is not listed as a medicinal here. The powders are mixed evenly into it and formed into pills the size of euryale seeds, dried in the shade and wrapped in oiled paper; one pill is ground down in warm water and taken, and the birth follows. The source adds that the woman grips the medicine — a man's birth in the left hand, a woman's in the right — and that this is the proof; and that compounding it on the twelfth-month day is best. **Note on modern practice: musk is a protected animal product and contemporary preparations substitute synthetic musk (muscone). Obstructed labor and malpresentation are managed today by external version or cesarean birth; recorded as classical text.**
Composition 構成
- Yuhyang乳香 유향 · Frankincense10 g
Deputy 臣 finely powdered - Jeonghyang丁香 정향 · Clove4 g
Assistant 佐 finely powdered - Sahyang麝香 사향 · Musk1 g
Assistant 佐
Total 15 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
- Answers a hard or malpresented birth with aromatics on a rabbit-brain base
- Opens and moves downward where labor has stalled
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Hard birth
- and crosswise or reversed birth (産難及橫産逆産)
- Obstructed labor
- Malpresentation
Biomedical correlates
- Obstructed labor and malpresentation — historical management
- Obstetric emergency care of the era
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治産難及橫産逆産. 臘月兎腦 一箇(取髓去皮膜, 硏如泥), 乳香(細末) 二錢半, 丁香(細末) 一錢, 麝香 二分半. 右拌勻和丸, 雞頭實大, 陰乾, 油紙裹. 每取一丸, 溫水磨化服, 卽産. 隨男左女右手握藥出, 是驗. 須臘日合妙. 《良方》
Translation
Treats a hard birth, and crosswise or reversed birth. The brain of a twelfth-month rabbit, one — the marrow taken, the skin and membrane removed, ground to a paste; finely powdered frankincense 2 don 5 fun; finely powdered clove 1 don; musk 2 fun 5 ri. Mix the above evenly and form into pills the size of euryale seeds; dry in the shade and wrap in oiled paper. Take one pill, ground down in warm water — and the birth follows. She grips the medicine as it comes, in the left hand for a boy and the right for a girl; this is the proof. Compounding it on a twelfth-month day is best. — Yangbang 良方 (Donguibogam · Buin)