Three Whites Drink

Sambaek-eum

한글 삼백음 · Pinyin San Bai Yin

三白飮

Composition 構成

Mangcho Mang Xiao
芒硝 망초 · Mirabilite

12 g
Chief 君
Gyejacheong Ji Zi Qing
雞子淸 계자청 · Egg White

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Chief 君

雞子淸, the white of one egg
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

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Deputy 臣

one large spoonful

Total 12 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Drains extreme heat downward
Settles a raving patient

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat disease at its height with mania and running about
Yangming heat with constipation and delirium

Biomedical correlates

Hyperthermic delirium
Agitated delirium in febrile illness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷寒熱病, 熱極狂走. 雞子淸一箇, 白蜜一大匙, 芒硝三錢. 右合作一處, 凉水調下. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats cold damage and heat disease where the heat is at its extreme and the patient runs about raving. Egg white, one; white honey, one large spoonful; mirabilite, 3 don. Combine the three together and take stirred into cool water. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three white things, none of them cooked: this is a cold draught, not a decoction. Mirabilite is the active drug — a salt purgative that pulls heat down through the bowel — and the egg white and honey are there to coat it, because mirabilite alone on an inflamed stomach will be vomited back. The whole point is that the patient is too wild to be nursed through a decoction, so the remedy is something that can be mixed in a cup of cool water and got down at once. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.