Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Dansim (丹心)

Hasten the Birth Sagely Powder

Choesaengyeoseong-san

한글 최생여성산  ·  Pinyin Cui Sheng Ru Sheng San

催生如聖散

Composition 構成

Total 8 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Difficult birth; bleeding with the birth passage gone dry

Biomedical correlates

  • Obstructed labour

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治難産, 及漏血胎乾者, 立效. 黃蜀葵子硏爲末, 每取二錢, 以酒調, 濾去渣, 溫服. 《丹心》 一方, 用蜀葵花爲末, 熱酒調下一錢, 卽效. 《正傳》 歌曰, 黃葵子炒百餘粒, 硏爛酒調濟窘急, 若患臨危難産時, 免得全家俱哭泣. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats difficult birth, and bleeding with the passage gone dry; the effect follows at once. Musk mallow seed ground to a powder, 2 don at a time stirred into wine, the dregs strained off and taken warm. Another formula uses hollyhock flower powdered, 1 don stirred into hot wine, and the effect follows. A verse says: a hundred and more musk mallow seeds, stir-fried, ground fine and stirred into wine relieve the straits; when the trouble comes and the birth is at its most perilous, it spares the whole household their weeping. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The verse is a mnemonic of the kind the Bogam reproduces where a remedy had to be recalled under pressure, and its last line says what the section is for. Obstructed labour killed mother and child together, and every formula from here to 1.27 is written against that. Musk mallow seed is mucilaginous — the whole 催生 method rests on making the passage slippery rather than on stimulating the uterus. **Obstructed labour is an obstetric emergency requiring immediate hospital care.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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