Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Establish the Sage Elixir

Ipseong-dan

한글 입성단  ·  Pinyin Li Sheng Dan

立聖丹

Composition 構成

Total 160 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Transverse or breech presentation with grave signs; a dead foetus that will not come down

Biomedical correlates

  • Malpresentation
  • Intrauterine fetal death

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治橫逆産惡候, 及死胎不下, 神驗. 寒水石 四兩<span class='sochu'>內二兩生用, 二兩煆赤硏爲細末</span>, 入朱砂末如深桃花色, 每用三分, 井水調如薄糊, 用紙花剪如杏葉大, 攤貼臍心, 候乾再易, 不過三上, 便産. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats transverse and breech presentation with grave signs, and a dead foetus that will not come down, with spirit-like proof. Glauberite 4 nyang <span class='sochu'>2 nyang used raw and 2 nyang calcined red and ground to a fine powder</span>, with powdered cinnabar stirred in until the colour is that of deep peach blossom. Take 3 pun at a time, mix with well water to a thin paste, cut paper in the shape of a flower the size of an apricot leaf, spread it on and stick it over the centre of the navel; when it dries replace it, and in not more than three applications the birth comes. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

如深桃花色 — the colour of deep peach blossom — is how the proportion of cinnabar is judged, by eye rather than by weight. The same method of measuring by colour appears in the Fire chapter's crystallized preparations. **Contains cinnabar. Malpresentation is an obstetric emergency requiring hospital delivery.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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