Gardenia Powder

Sanchija-san

한글 산치자산 · Pinyin Shan Zhi Zi San

山梔子散

The passage carries no source annotation of its own. It follows immediately on Spirit Atractylodes Pill, which is attributed to Bonsa 本事, and is named there as that formula's companion, so the attribution is inherited rather than stated. Source given as Bonsa on that basis; flagged pending confirmation.

Composition 構成

Chija Zhi Zi
梔子 치자 · Gardenia

4 g
Chief 君 dried and powdered, 1 don steeped in boiling water per dose (乾之爲末, 沸湯點一錢服)

Total 4 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

Drains heat from the chest and diaphragm
Relieves vexation and parching arising from drying medicinals

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Parched, scorched sensation at the diaphragm after taking warm drying pills
Vexation and restlessness in the chest

Biomedical correlates

Drug-induced epigastric burning
Retrosternal discomfort

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

梔子一味, 乾之爲末, 沸湯點一錢服.

Translation

Gardenia alone: dry it, grind it to powder, and take 1 don steeped in boiling water. — (Donguibogam · Damum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A single-herb powder with no independent indication in this chapter — it exists only to answer the dryness that Spirit Atractylodes Pill provokes. Bitter cold gardenia against a full geun of warm drying atractylodes is a small, precise correction rather than a treatment in its own right, and the dose says as much: one don steeped in hot water, taken once. It is worth noting as a design principle. The Bogam does not simply warn about a formula's cost, it supplies the antidote in the same breath and names it in the formula text. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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