Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Jeongjeon (正傳)

Three Sloughs Drink

Samtoe-eum

한글 삼퇴음 · Pinyin San Tui Yin

三退飮

Composition 構成

Satoe She Tui
蛇蛻 사퇴 · Snake Slough

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Chief 君

one whole snake slough
Jamtoe Can Tui
蚕退 잠퇴 · Silkworm Moult

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Deputy 臣

蚕退紙, one sheet of silkworm egg paper
Seontoe Chan Tui
蟬退 선퇴 · Cicada Moulting

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Deputy 臣

forty-nine cicada sloughs

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Brings down a retained placenta

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

The placenta not coming down

Biomedical correlates

Retained placenta

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治胞衣不下, 神效. 蛇退一條全者, 蚕退紙一方, 蟬退四十九箇. 右幷燒存性爲末, 順流水調下, 立出. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats the placenta not coming down, with spirit-like effect. One whole snake slough; one sheet of silkworm egg paper; forty-nine cicada sloughs. Burn them all preserving their nature, powder, and take stirred into downstream-flowing water, and it issues at once. — Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The three sloughs of 1.22.6 applied to the placenta instead of the child, and the vehicle is chosen to match — 順流水, water taken where the current runs straight downstream, against the counterflowing water the Vomiting chapter uses at 6.13.16 to make things come up. **Retained placenta requires immediate medical management.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.