Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Dongwon (東垣)

Three Yellows Unripe Bitter Orange and Atractylodes Pill

Samhwangjichul-hwan

한글 삼황지출환  ·  Pinyin San Huang Zhi Zhu Wan

三黃枳朮丸

Powdered and bound with steamed cake soaked in hot water into pills the size of mung beans; 50–70 pills swallowed with plain boiled water.

Composition 構成

Total 300 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Damage by meat damp pasta and thick-flavored things (傷肉食濕麪厚味之物)
  • Oppressive disorder and unease after rich food
  • Food stagnation transformed to heat

Biomedical correlates

  • Dyspepsia after rich or greasy meals
  • Food-heat presentations with restless oppression
  • Overindulgence syndromes

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷肉食濕麪厚味之物, 悶亂不快. 黃芩 二兩, 黃連(酒炒)ㆍ大黃(煨)ㆍ神麴(炒)ㆍ白朮ㆍ陳皮 各一兩, 枳實(麩炒) 五錢. 右爲末, 湯浸蒸餠和丸菉豆大, 白湯呑下五七十丸. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats damage by meat, damp pasta, and thick-flavored things, with oppressive disorder and unease. Scutellaria 2 nyang; wine-fried coptis, ember-roasted rhubarb, dry-fried medicated leaven, white atractylodes, and tangerine peel, 1 nyang each; bran-fried unripe bitter orange 5 don. Powder the above and bind with steamed cake soaked in hot water into pills the size of mung beans; swallow 50–70 pills with plain boiled water. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The family's heavy artillery, and its inversion — here the three yellows outrank the founding pair, because the banquet's damage has already turned to fire. The mung-bean pill size is the tell: small, cooling, and unmistakably a corrective rather than a companion. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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