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What medicine is the so-called {abortion medicine} of the ancients, and what medicine is it made of?
Achyranthes bidentata Crab Claw Kansui, Euphorbia Sedum. Study on porphyritic ochre and arsenite, mercury and mirabilite. Peach kernel, medulla tetrapanacis and musk ribbon flower are also added. Safflower is boiled in vinegar to keep the baby from dropping.

Most of these prescriptions are diuretics and diuretics, such as Achyranthes bidentata, Kansui, Euphorbia Euphorbia, Daphne genkwa, medulla tetrapanacis and Ling Hua (Ling Hua). Spotted hair should be spotted oyster, also known as spotted cat, which is a powerful diuretic. Perhaps the ancients thought that water could be beneficial and the fetus could lie down. Peach kernel and safflower are also commonly used prescriptions for abortion in traditional Chinese medicine. Musk is fragrant and irritating, so it is forbidden for pregnant women, so it can prevent miscarriage. Arsenic, that is, salt, together with mirabilite and mercury, is a mineral and has a purgative effect. Among them, mercury is toxic and can be extinct, which is generally not used by modern Chinese medicine. The recipe specifically mentions that safflower should be cooked together with vinegar, which shows that vinegar brewing in Shanxi and Hebei provinces at that time had a scale and fame. Vinegar is acidic and helps to disperse blood stasis. It can be seen that the abortion in ancient Chinese medicine was mainly diuresis and diarrhea, which was quite different from the blood-breaking drugs that modern Chinese medicine loved most.