Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Ginseng and Aromatics Powder

Samhyang-san

한글 삼향산  ·  Pinyin Shen Xiang San

參香散

Composition 構成

Total 46.8 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Vacuity taxation — emaciated with scant Qi (羸瘦氣少)
  • Gradual progression toward taxation consumption (漸成勞瘵)
  • Depletion with Qi stagnation and poor appetite

Biomedical correlates

  • Progressive weight loss with fatigue
  • Early wasting states before overt consumption
  • Chronic fatigue with digestive stagnation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞, 羸瘦氣少, 漸成勞瘵. 人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ黃芪ㆍ山藥ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ蓮肉 各一錢, 甘草 七分半, 烏藥ㆍ縮砂ㆍ橘紅ㆍ乾薑 各五分, 丁香ㆍ木香ㆍ白丹香 各二分半, 沈香 二分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三棗二, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats vacuity taxation — emaciated and scant of Qi, gradually becoming taxation consumption. Ginseng, white atractylodes, astragalus, dioscorea, white poria, and lotus seed, 1 don each; licorice 0.75 don; lindera, amomum, red tangerine peel, and dried ginger, 0.5 don each; clove, aucklandia, and sandalwood, 0.25 don each; aquilaria 0.2 don. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four fragrant woods riding a Four Gentlemen frame — clove, aucklandia, sandalwood, and aquilaria keeping the qi in motion, for the patient wasting toward consumption whose tonics otherwise sit in the chest like stones. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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