三仁湯

Name

Decoction of Three Kinds of Kernels

The Prescription of 三仁湯

Source

The book Wen Bing Tiao Bian

Ingredients

• Xing Ren (Semen Armeniacae Amarum) 15 g,
• Fei Hua Shi (refined Talcum) 18 g,
• Bai Tong Cao (Medulla Tetrapanacis) 6 g,
• Bai Kou Ren (Semen Amomi Cardamomi) 6 g,
• Zhu Ye (Herba Lophatheri) 6 g,
• Hou Po (Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis) 6 g,
• Yi Yi Ren (Semen Coicis) 18 g,
• Ban Xia (Rhizoma Pinelliae) 10 g.

Explanation

Xing Ren: One of the principal drugs, being bitter in flavor and slightly warm in nature,
facilitating the flow of the lung-Qi to promote the function of the upper-Jiao.

Bai Kou Ren: One of the principal drugs, being pungent in flavor and warm in nature, removing dampness, promoting the circulation of Qi to regulate the middle-Jiao.

Yi Yi Ren: One of the principal drugs, being insipid in flavor and slightly cold in nature, mildly inducing diuresis to remove dampness so as to dredge the lower-Jiao.

Ban Xia and Hou Po: Promoting the circulation of Qi, removing dampness and relieving fullness.

Hua Shi, Tong Cao and Zhu Ye: Inducing diuresis to remove damp-heat.

The Effect of 三仁湯

Effect

Promoting the functional activities of Qi and removing damp-heat.

Indications

Syndrome due to newly-formed severe dampness and mild heat pathogens, marked by headache, aversion to cold, heaviness and soreness of the body, yellowish complexion, fullness in the chest, loss of appetite, afternoon-fever, whitish tongue, no thirst, and taut thready feeble pulse; including such diseases with the above symptoms as typhoid fever, gastroenteritis, pyelonephritis, bronchopneumonia and postoperative intestinal adhesion.

Administrations

Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken 3 times.