Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Hwarin (活人)

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

8 g
Chief 君

parched
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

6 g
Deputy 臣
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

6 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

4 g
Assistant 佐
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

1 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

1 g
Envoy 使

roasted

Total 30 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

Quiets the spirit and restores sleep
Clears residual heat and moistens what the fever spent

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Depletion vexation and sleeplessness after cold damage
Residual heat with the heart yin consumed

Biomedical correlates

Post-infectious insomnia
Convalescent anxiety with restlessness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷寒後虛煩不得眠. 酸棗仁(炒) 二錢, 麥門冬ㆍ知母各一錢半, 茯苓ㆍ川芎各一錢, 乾薑ㆍ甘草(灸) 各二分半. 右剉, 作一服, 水煎服. 《活人》

Translation

Treats the depletion vexation and sleeplessness that follow cold damage. Parched sour jujube seed, 2 don; ophiopogon and anemarrhena, 1 don 5 fun each; poria and chuanxiong, 1 don each; dried ginger and roasted licorice, 2 fun 5 ri each. Cut up, make one dose and decoct in water. — Hwarinseo 活人 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Sour jujube seed with anemarrhena, poria, chuanxiong and licorice is the Jin Gui formula for depletion vexation, and the two additions here are ophiopogon for the fluids a fever has spent and a small measure of dried ginger. The ginger at 2 fun 5 ri is the piece worth noticing — a fortieth of the formula, warm, put into an otherwise cooling prescription so that a convalescent stomach will accept it. Chuanxiong in a sleep formula looks wrong and is not: the classics hold that blood that will not circulate keeps the spirit from settling. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.