Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Cinnamon and Musk Pill
Gyehyang-hwan
한글 계향환 · Pinyin Gui Xiang Wan
Powdered and bound with cooked rice into pills the size of mung beans; 15 pills with plain boiled water. **Note on modern practice: musk is a protected animal product, and contemporary preparations use synthetic musk (muscone) in its place — as they do in Gongjin-dan and Uhwangcheongsim-won, where the same substitution is standard. More importantly: intrauterine fetal demise is managed today by induction or surgical evacuation under obstetric care, and this entry is recorded as classical text.**
Composition 構成
Total 44 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
- Brings down a fetus that has died in the womb
- Warms and opens with two ingredients and nothing else
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Bringing down a dead fetus (下死胎)
- Retained fetal demise
- Obstetric emergency of the era
Biomedical correlates
- Intrauterine fetal demise — historical management
- Retained products requiring evacuation
- Obstetric emergency care
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
下死胎. 肉桂 一兩, 麝香 一錢. 右爲末, 飯丸菉豆大, 白湯下十五丸. 《入門》
Translation
Brings down a dead fetus. Cinnamon bark 1 nyang; musk 1 don. Powder the pair and bind with cooked rice into pills the size of mung beans; take 15 pills with plain boiled water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Buin)