定坤丹

Chinese

		to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilize; to order	the earth-; female-principle	red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
simp. and trad. (定坤丹)		定	坤	丹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìngkūn dān

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄎㄨㄣ ㄉㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dìngkūn dān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄎㄨㄣ ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dìngkun dan
    • Wade–Giles: ting⁴-kʻun¹ tan¹
    • Yale: dìng-kwūn dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dinqkuen dan
    • Palladius: динкунь дань (dinkunʹ danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵¹ kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ tän⁵⁵/

Noun

定坤丹

1. A blackish-brown pill used in traditional Chinese medicine to "nourish qi and blood, regulate menstruation, soothe the depressed liver, as well as to treat dysmenorrhea, abnormal uterine bleeding, morbid leucorrhea, anemia, exhaustion of blood, and various postpartum deficiency syndromes and hectic fever in consumptive diseases". Honey is used as the binding agent.

Some of the ingredients of the Dingkun pill are:

Name	Chinese (S)
Radix Ginseng	人参
Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum	鹿茸
Stigma Croci	红花
Caulis Spatholobi	鸡血藤
Radix Notoginseng (Panax notoginseng)	三七
Radix Paeoniae Alba	白芍
Radix Rehmanniae (steamed)	生地黄 (蒸)
Radix Angelicae Sinensis	当归
Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae	白术
Fructus Lycii	枸杞子
Radix Scutellariae	黄芩
Rhizoma Cyperi	香附
Fructus Leonuri	茺蔚子
Rhizoma Chuanxiong	川芎
Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum	鹿角霜
Colla Corii Asini	阿胶
Rhizoma Corydalis	延胡索

References

• State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. →ISBN.