Microscopic Identification of Yang Mi Ryung Whan

양미령환의 현미감정 연구

'Yang Mi Ryung Whan' is a Chinese patent medicine, which has been used for paramenia, dysmenorrhea, abdominal distention, psychroalgia in the limbs and so on which is due to extravasated blood. This medicine consists of 17 kinds of powdered crude drugs. For the identification of individual ingredients in such powdery mixtures, microscopic method may advantageously be used as it requires only a small amount of specimens. In this paper, the effectiveness of this method is exemplified by the identification of the ingredients in Yang Mi Ryung Whan which contains 17 powered crude drug ingredients.