Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Free the Blood Pill

Tonghyeol-hwan

한글 통혈환  ·  Pinyin Tong Xue Wan

通血丸

The Bogam distinguishes this from Chajeon-san, also given for blood flooding the pupil, by the absence of a screen.

Composition 構成

Total 220 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

  • Blood flooding the pupil without a screen

Biomedical correlates

  • Hyphaema
  • Subconjunctival haemorrhage

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治血灌瞳人, 刺痛無障瞖. 川芎ㆍ當歸尾ㆍ防風ㆍ荊芥 各一兩, 生乾地黃ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ甘草 各五錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸彈子大, 每一丸, 以薄荷ㆍ荊芥湯嚼下, 食後. 《入門》

Translation

Treats blood flooding the pupil with stabbing pain and no obstructing screen. Chuanxiong, the tails of Korean angelica, saposhnikovia and schizonepeta 1 nyang each; dried raw rehmannia, red peony and licorice 5 don each. Powder them, make honey pills the size of a bullet, and chew one at a time down with a decoction of mint and schizonepeta, after food. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The distinction in the indication is the useful part: blood in the pupil with no screen over it is treated by moving the blood, and blood with a screen is treated by draining the liver. Chuanxiong and the angelica tails lead here, and the pill is bullet-sized and chewed, which keeps the dose slow. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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