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Sour Jujube Seed Decoction (Dreams chapter)

Sanjoin-tang

한글 산조인탕 · Pinyin Suan Zao Ren Tang

酸棗仁湯

Cut and made into one packet with 3 slices of ginger, decocted in water and taken. Distinct from the five-ingredient Sour Jujube Seed Decoction of the Golden Cabinet recorded elsewhere on this site.

Composition 構成

Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

10 g
Chief 君
Sanjoin Suan Zao Ren
酸棗仁 산조인 · Sour Jujube Seed

6 g
Chief 君 dry-fried
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

6 g
Deputy 臣
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使 3 slices
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

2 g
Envoy 使 heart (桂心)

Total 42 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

Settles the vacuity vexation that keeps a depleted patient awake
Cools the residual heat left after vomiting and purging

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Vacuity vexation with sleeplessness (虛煩不睡)
Sleeplessness after cold damage has been vomited and purged (傷寒吐下後)
Restless insomnia in the recently depleted

Biomedical correlates

Insomnia after acute illness
Restlessness with residual fever
Post-illness sleep disturbance

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛煩不睡, 及傷寒吐下後虛煩不睡. 石膏二錢半, 酸棗仁(炒)ㆍ人參各一錢半, 知母ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ甘草各一錢, 桂心五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑三片, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats vacuity vexation with sleeplessness, and the vacuity vexation and sleeplessness that follow the vomiting and purging of cold damage. Gypsum 2.5 don; dry-fried sour jujube seed and ginseng, 1.5 don each; anemarrhena, red poria, and licorice, 1 don each; cinnamon heart 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger, decoct in water and take. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Mong)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The Golden Cabinet's famous insomnia formula rebuilt for a different patient — gypsum promoted to chief and ginseng added, because this version is for someone whose sleeplessness follows an acute illness that has been purged out of them. Heat remains, but so does emptiness, and the five fun of cinnamon heart at the bottom keeps a formula this cold from finishing what the purging started. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.