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

桂香丸

Registered before the Accumulations chapter was translated; the source text is added here from Jeokchwi 1.13.22. Musk is CITES Appendix I and prohibited in trade.

Composition 構成

Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

40 g
Chief 君
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

4 g
Deputy 臣

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

治多食雜苽果子, 成積, 腹脹氣急. 桂心一兩, 麝香一錢. 右爲末, 飯丸菉豆大. 白湯呑下十五丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats eating too many mixed gourds and fruits so that an accumulation forms, with abdominal distension and hurried breathing. Cinnamon heart 1 nyang, musk 1 don. Powder them, make rice pills the size of a mung bean, and take fifteen down with plain hot water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Jeokchwi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two medicinals for fruit and vegetable accumulation, and the reasoning is a matter of temperature: raw gourds and fruits are cold, and what they leave in the belly is treated with warmth rather than with anything that disperses food. Cinnamon heart supplies that, and musk opens what is blocked. **Contains musk, a CITES Appendix I product prohibited in international trade. Contemporary practice substitutes with medicinals such as 蘇合香 or 石菖蒲.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.