Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Samin (三因)

Fluorite Powder

Seogyeong-san

한글 석영산 · Pinyin Shi Ying San

石英散

Composition 構成

Jaseogyeong Zi Shi Ying
紫石英 자석영 · Fluorite

40 g
Chief 君

vinegar-quenched (醋淬)
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

20 g
Deputy 臣

tails only (當歸尾)
Mapyeoncho Ma Bian Cao
馬鞭草 마편초 · Vervain

20 g
Deputy 臣
Honghwa Hong Hua
紅花 홍화 · Safflower

20 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried (炒)
Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

20 g
Assistant 佐

flesh only (烏梅肉)
Bongchul E Zhu
莪朮 봉출 · Zedoary

12 g
Assistant 佐

vinegar-fried (醋炒)
Samneung San Leng
三稜 삼릉 · Sparganium

12 g
Assistant 佐

vinegar-fried (醋炒)
Somok Su Mu
蘇木 소목 · Sappan Wood

12 g
Assistant 佐

knots only (蘇木節)
Moryak Mo Yao
沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh

4 g
Assistant 佐
Hobak Hu Po
琥珀 호박 · Amber

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

Total 168 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

Breaks static blood bound into stone concretion
Warms the womb and frees the menses

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stone concretion (石瘕) formed in the womb from damage and static blood
Hard as stone and blocking the mouth of the uterus
Large as a pregnancy with the menses not coming down

Biomedical correlates

Uterine fibroid
Pelvic mass with amenorrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治石瘕. 紫石英(醋淬) 一兩, 當歸尾ㆍ馬鞭草ㆍ紅花(炒)ㆍ烏梅肉各五錢, 蓬朮ㆍ三稜(幷醋炒)ㆍ蘇木節各三錢, 沒藥ㆍ琥珀ㆍ甘草各一錢. 右爲末, 以濃煎蘇木酒調下二錢, 不飮酒, 薑湯調下. 《三因》

Translation

Treats stone concretion. Fluorite (vinegar-quenched) 1 nyang; angelica tails, vervain, safflower (stir-fried) and mume flesh 5 don each; curcuma and sparganium (both vinegar-fried) and sappan knots 3 don each; myrrh, amber and licorice 1 don each. Powder them and take 2 don stirred into wine in which sappan has been strongly decocted; for those who do not drink wine, stir into ginger decoction. — Samin 三因 (Donguibogam · Jeokchwi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Stone concretion is the counterpart to intestinal mushroom and the pairing is the point: both grow to the size of a pregnancy, but the mushroom lies outside the intestine and the menses still come, while the stone forms inside the womb and the menses stop. The source at 1.11 says the first is a disease of the qi with the blood not yet involved, and the second arises from cold contracted first and blood then dammed — so this formula is entirely blood-moving where the other is qi-breaking. Fluorite vinegar-quenched at the head is the softening mineral; amber, myrrh and sappan are the stasis-dispersing set. Taking the powder in a strong sappan decoction rather than water carries the whole preparation into the blood aspect. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.