Royal Blood-Fresh () is a
traditional Korean medicine
Traditional Korean medicine (known in North Korea as Koryo medicine) refers to the forms of traditional medicine practiced in Korea.
History
Korean medicine traditions originated in ancient and prehistoric times and can be traced back as far a ...
(
Koryo medicine)
health supplement
A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement one's diet by taking a pill, capsule, tablet, powder, or liquid. A supplement can provide nutrients either extracted from food sources or that are synthetic in order ...
derived from
soybeans.
It is manufactured in North Korea and is the most famous product sold by the North Korean company,
Pugang Pharmaceutic.
It is marketed as a "blood purifier" and a preventative against
deep-vein thrombosis
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a type of venous thrombosis involving the formation of a blood clot in a deep vein, most commonly in the legs or pelvis. A minority of DVTs occur in the arms. Symptoms can include pain, swelling, redness, and enla ...
.
It is marketed to foreigners during
Air Koryo
Air Koryo () is the state-owned national airline of North Korea, headquartered in Sunan-guyŏk, Pyongyang. Based at Pyongyang International Airport ( IATA: FNJ), it operates international scheduled and charter services to points in Asia.
...
flights
and has been sold at
Pyongyang Gwan, a North Korean restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam. It has been dismissed outside of North Korea as a non-scientific "miracle cure".
In 2017, three Russian nationals were arrested in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
for selling North Korean drugs, which included Royal Blood-Fresh,
Kumdang-2, and
Neo-Viagra-Y.R.
See also
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Tetrodocain
References
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Healthcare in North Korea
Traditional Korean medicine
Drugs