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Rabbit Brain Pill

Toenoe-hwan

한글 토뇌환  ·  Pinyin Tu Nao Wan

兎腦丸

Composition 構成

Total 19 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • A difficult birth long drawn out with the blood dried up

Biomedical correlates

  • Prolonged obstructed labour

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治産難日久血乾, 宜用此滑之. 臘月兎腦髓 一枚, 鼠內腎 一部, 母丁香ㆍ益母草 各一錢, 乳香 二錢半, 麝香 二分半. 右爲末, 兎髓和丸芡實大, 朱砂爲衣, 油紙裹, 陰乾, 每一丸, 醋湯化下, 卽産. 男左手女右手握藥出, 是驗. 《入門》

Translation

Treats a difficult birth long drawn out with the blood dried up; this should be used to make it slippery. One rabbit brain taken in the twelfth month; one rat's kidney; mother clove and motherwort 1 don each; frankincense 2 don 5 pun; musk 2 pun 5 ri. Powder them, bind with the rabbit brain into pills the size of a euryale seed, coat with cinnabar, wrap in oiled paper and dry in the shade; take one dissolved in vinegar decoction, and the birth follows. The child comes out gripping the medicine — a boy in the left hand, a girl in the right — and that is the proof. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The last sentence is the formula's claim to efficacy and cannot be what it says it is. It is recorded here as the source has it. Rabbit brain is used because rabbits were held to deliver with unusual ease, and the same reasoning chose the sloughs at 1.22.5. **Contains cinnabar and musk. Prolonged obstructed labour is life-threatening and requires hospital delivery.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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