Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Jesaeng (濟生)

Ginseng and Aconite Decoction

Sambu-tang

한글 삼부탕 · Pinyin Shen Fu Tang

參附湯

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

13.3 g
Chief 君

blast-fried (炮) · toxic
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

6.7 g
Chief 君

5 don across three packets
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使

Total 26 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

Treats spontaneous sweating from yang vacuity

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yang vacuity with spontaneous sweating

Biomedical correlates

Shock with profuse sweating
Circulatory collapse

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陽虛自汗. 人參五錢, 附子(炮) 一兩. 右剉, 作三貼, 薑三片, 水煎服. 《濟生》

Translation

Treats spontaneous sweating from yang vacuity. Ginseng 5 don; aconite (blast-fried) 1 nyang. Cut up, make three packets, and decoct each in water with 3 slices of ginger. — Jesaeng 濟生 (Donguibogam · Jinaek)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two medicinals, and the tradition's emergency formula for the sweat of collapse — the expiring sweat of 5.17 is what it was used for when it came to that. Ginseng for the qi that is leaving and aconite for the yang that is leaving with it. **Contains aconite, which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.