Keishintan
name: label: maker
content: Inubushi, Motosada
notes: label: Description
content: Paper envelope with blue and red Japanese characters and print. The printed borderline includes an illustration of a bat in each corner. English-language print reads: "KEISHINTAN / The Best Patent Medicine / for / All Forms of Febrile Diseases. / Prepared and Sold / by / MOTOSADA INUBUSHI / HIGASHI NAKATOMI / AWA, JAPAN"
label: Description
content: Translation of label on front of envelope reads in part: "Fever reducer for adults and children approved by the Japanese government" and "original formula."
label: Description
content: Indications as translated from back of envelope read in part: "Main function: Bloating; Febrile disease; Heat stroke; Typhoid fever; Headaches; Indigestion; Malnutrition in children; Convulsions; Measles; Flu"
label: Description
content: The envelope contains three flat, square, red tablets folded into a small paper wrapper, and a paper information sheet. Each square tablet is embossed with a Japanese character.
label: Description
content: According to the manufacturer's website, Keishintan has been manufacturered by the Inubushi family since the early 1800's. It was based on an earlier traditional formula that was revised and renamed at that time. The medicine is still produced by the successors of the original company and is currently [2024] marketed as a treatment for anxiety, stress, insomnia, and related nervous conditions.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (paper insert)
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Tokushima, Awa
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.514
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.514
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 4 in; .3175 cm x 13.97 cm x 10.16 cm