Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Three Essences Pill

Samjeong-hwan

한글 삼정환 · Pinyin San Jing Wan

三精丸

The base text loses the clause 夜採月華 to a running header; it is restored from the standard text.

Composition 構成

Sangsim Sang Shen
桑椹 상심 · Mulberry Fruit

12800 g
Chief 君

黑桑椹
Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

640 g
Chief 君

1 geun of the clean powder
Jigolpi Di Gu Pi
地骨皮 지골피 · Lycium Root Bark

640 g
Chief 君

1 geun of the clean powder
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

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Envoy 使

for binding

Total 14080 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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

Lightens the body
extends the years and increases longevity with long taking
Makes the face like a child's

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

For long taking
to lighten the body and extend life

Biomedical correlates

Longevity tonic

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

久服, 輕身延年益壽, 面如童子. 蒼朮天之精ㆍ地骨皮地之精 各淨末一斤. 黑桑椹人之精 取二十斤揉爛, 入絹袋內, 絞取汁去滓, 將兩藥末投汁內調勻. 入罐內密封口, 閣於棚上, 晝採日精, 夜採月華, 直待自然煎乾, 方取爲末, 蜜丸小豆大, 每十丸, 酒湯任下. 《入門》

Translation

Taken long, it lightens the body, extends the years and increases longevity, and makes the face like a child's. Atractylodes lancea the essence of heaven and lycium root bark the essence of earth, 1 geun each of the clean powder. Black mulberries the essence of man, 20 geun, rubbed to a pulp, put in a silk bag and the juice pressed out and the dregs discarded; stir the two powders evenly into the juice. Put it in a jar, seal the mouth, and set it on a rack; by day it gathers the sun's essence and by night the moon's splendour, until it dries of itself; then take it and powder it, make honey pills the size of an adzuki bean, and take ten at a time with wine or hot water as preferred. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sinhyeong)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three essences — heaven's, earth's and man's — in three plants, and twenty pounds of black mulberries for the third. The jar is left in the open until sun and moon have dried it, which takes weeks, and the reasoning is that the medicine takes up what it sits under. The formula is the Immun's, and it is the first of four in the section that make the same promise: 輕身延年, lighten the body and extend the years. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.