Three Supplements Pill

Sambo-hwan

한글 삼보환 · Pinyin San Bu Wan

三補丸

Equal parts, powdered and bound with steamed cake into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 50–70 pills with plain boiled water on an empty stomach.

Composition 構成

Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

40 g
Chief 君
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

40 g
Chief 君
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

40 g
Chief 君

Total 120 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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

Removes the accumulated heat of the triple burner
Drains the fire of all five viscera with three bitter siblings

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Accumulated heat of the triple burner (三焦積熱)
Fire of the five viscera across the board
The three-story clearing standard

Biomedical correlates

Generalized inflammatory heat presentations
Recurrent heat symptoms across body regions
Broad antipyretic-pattern therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

去三焦積熱, 瀉五藏火. 黃芩ㆍ黃連ㆍ黃柏各等分. 右爲末, 蒸餠和丸梧子大, 空心, 白湯下五七十丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Removes the accumulated heat of the triple burner and drains the fire of the five viscera. Scutellaria, coptis, and phellodendron, in equal parts. Powder the above and bind with steamed cake into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 50–70 pills with plain boiled water on an empty stomach. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The three bitter siblings, one per floor — scutellaria for the upper burner, coptis for the middle, phellodendron for the lower — at perfectly equal rank. The name is the chapter's paradox again: a pill of three drainers called the Three Supplements, because in fire's economy every quenching is a deposit. Hwangryeonhaedok-tang minus its gardenia, in pill form for the long campaign. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.