Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Three Sages Pill

Samseong-hwan

한글 삼성환 · Pinyin San Sheng Wan

三聖丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with a leaven paste into pills the size of mung beans; 50 pills with a ginger decoction — spirit-level effect (神效).

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

160 g
Chief 君
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

40 g
Deputy 臣
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

20 g
Assistant 佐

Total 220 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

Quiets the gnawing heart that keeps demanding food
Sets one cool sage between two warm ones

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heart-gnawing with constant seeking of food (心嘈索食)
The false hunger of phlegm-heat
Between-meals gnawing in the otherwise well

Biomedical correlates

Inter-meal gnawing hunger sensations
Functional hyperphagia-adjacent complaints
Mild reflux-hunger confusion

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治心嘈索食. 白朮四兩, 陳皮一兩, 黃連五錢. 右爲末, 神麴糊和丸菉豆大. 薑湯下五十丸, 神效. 《入門》

Translation

Treats heart-gnawing with seeking of food. White atractylodes 4 nyang; tangerine peel 1 nyang; coptis 5 don. Powder the above and bind with a leaven paste into pills the size of mung beans; take 50 pills with a ginger decoction — spirit-level effect. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The gnaw that masquerades as appetite, answered by three sages in an eight-to-two-to-one procession — a wall of atractylodes, a harmonizing peel, and just enough coptis to quench the counterfeit hunger's pilot light. The section's most elegant small answer. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.