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Three Immortals Elixir

Samseon-dan

한글 삼선단  ·  Pinyin San Xian Dan

三仙丹

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with a wine paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 50–70 pills with warm wine. Blood foods are to be avoided while taking it. **Note on modern practice: chuanwu (川烏) is a regulated toxic aconite requiring proper processing and professional prescription.**

Composition 構成

Total 240 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Vacuity taxation with Kidney and Bladder vacuous and cold (腎與膀胱虛冷)
  • Deafness and dimming vision (耳聾目暗)
  • Cold depletion of the lower burner

Biomedical correlates

  • Age-related hearing and visual decline with fatigue
  • Kidney-yang depletion
  • Cold-pattern urinary complaints

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞證, 腎與膀胱虛冷, 耳聾目暗. 蒼朮 二兩(以葱白一握同炒黃去葱), 川烏 一兩(以鹽五錢同炒裂), 茴香 三兩(炒). 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大. 溫酒下五七十丸, 忌諸血. 《入門》

Translation

Treats the vacuity taxation pattern with Kidney and Bladder vacuous and cold, the ears deaf and the eyes dim. Atractylodes 2 nyang, fried to yellow with a handful of scallion white, the scallion then discarded; chuanwu aconite 1 nyang, fried with 5 don of salt until it cracks; dry-fried fennel 3 nyang. Powder the above and bind with a wine paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 50–70 pills with warm wine, avoiding blood foods. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three herbs, and each is prepared with something that is then thrown away — scallion for the atractylodes, salt for the aconite. That is the point of the method: the discarded ingredient has done its work by changing where the herb goes, and the tradition is quite specific that salt sends a medicine to the Kidney. Fennel at three ounces leads a formula for the cold, deaf, dim-sighted end of depletion. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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