Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Geumgwe Yoryak (金匱要略)

Sour Jujube Seed Decoction

Sanjoin-tang

한글 산조인탕 · Pinyin Suan Zao Ren Tang

酸棗仁湯

Composition 構成

Sanjoin Suan Zao Ren
酸棗仁 산조인 · Sour Jujube Seed

16 g
Chief 君
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

8 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

8 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 38 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Actions 效能

Nourishes Liver Blood and calms the spirit
Clears deficiency heat and eliminates irritability

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Liver Blood deficiency with deficiency fire disturbing the spirit
Inability to fall asleep with irritability
Deficiency taxation with night restlessness

Biomedical correlates

Sleep-onset insomnia
Restlessness with fatigue
Insomnia after prolonged stress or illness

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five herbs for the exhausted-but-wired presentation — too tired to function, too restless to sleep. Cheongung's small moving dose inside a nourishing formula is what keeps the stillness from becoming stagnation. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.