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

Mountain Gardenia Pill

Sanchi-hwan

한글 산치환 · Pinyin Shan Zhi Wan

山梔丸

The source gives no weight for the drug; the figure here is nominal. The same powder bound with flour paste instead of honey is registered separately as yugeum-hwan, the source naming the two as distinct formulas.

Composition 構成

Chija Zhi Zi
梔子 치자 · Gardenia

40 g
Chief 君

取仁炒黑, the kernels parched black

Total 40 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

Removes vexing heat of the heart and chest
Drains the fire of the three burners with a moistening binder

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Vexing heat of the heart and chest
Accumulated heat with agitation and dryness

Biomedical correlates

Heat presentations with restlessness
Agitation with dryness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

又取仁炒黑爲末, 麪糊和丸服, 名曰柔金丸. 若蜜和爲丸, 名曰山梔丸. 又能去心胸煩熱. 《入門》

Translation

Or take the gardenia kernels, parch them black, powder them, make pills with wheat-flour paste and take them: it is called Yugeum-hwan. If they are made into pills with honey, it is called Sanchi-hwan. It is also able to remove vexing heat of the heart and chest. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The honey-bound twin of Yugeum-hwan, and the only thing separating them. 心胸煩熱, vexing heat of the heart and chest, is the complaint the honey version is given for, and the moistening binder is why: a dry, vexed patient is given the pill that carries some moisture with it. Gardenia remains the reference drug for restless heat in Korean and Chinese practice. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.