What are the effects and functions of Sanren Decoction?

Sanren Decoction has a relatively high efficacy value. It can be used to treat problems such as headaches, aversion to cold, sallow complexion, chest tightness, and lack of hunger. It also has a good effect of clearing dampness and heat, but you must pay attention to the correct composition formula. At the same time, you must also understand that it is not suitable for people with yellow and greasy tongue coating or those with more heat than dampness.

1. Efficacy and function of Sanren Decoction

Efficacy: Clears away dampness and heat, and promotes the flow of Qi.

Indications: initial onset of damp-heat, headache, chills, sallow complexion, heaviness and pain in the body, fever in the afternoon, chest tightness and lack of hunger, etc.

Usage: Boil eight bowls of sweet water and take three bowls of it. Take one bowl three times a day.

Prescription song: Three kernels, apricot kernel, cardamom, coix seed, Pu Xia Bai Tong, Hua Zhu Lun, use water to stir it a hundred times, this method is suitable for the initial onset of damp-heat.

Usage: This prescription is mainly used to treat the initial stage of damp-heat, with dampness being more severe than heat. In clinical application, the key points of diagnosis are headache, aversion to cold, heaviness and pain in the body, fever in the afternoon, white tongue coating and no thirst.

Contraindications: It should not be used if the tongue coating is yellow and greasy, or if heat is more severe than dampness.

2. Sanren Decoction is a commonly used prescription for treating the initial stage of damp-heat, when the evil is in the Qi and the dampness is more severe than the heat. The causes of the disease are: one is the external evil of seasonal dampness and heat; the other is the accumulation of dampness and fluid in the body, which in turn causes external evil. The combination of internal and external evils leads to dampness and heat. As Xue Shengbai said: "Taiyin is injured internally, dampness and fluid accumulate, and foreign evils arrive again, attracting each other inside and outside, so the disease becomes damp-heat" ("Wenre Jingwei").

3. In Sanren Decoction, apricot kernel can promote the flow of lung qi in the upper burner, and when qi flows, dampness can be eliminated; white cardamom seed has a fragrance that can eliminate dampness, promote qi flow and relieve fullness, and promote spleen qi in the middle burner; coix seed is sweet, mild and cold in nature, and can penetrate dampness, promote diuresis and strengthen the spleen, so that damp heat can be removed from the lower burner. The three kinds of Ren are used together to eliminate the three burners, and they are the main medicine. Talcum powder, tongcao and bamboo leaves are sweet, cold and slightly penetrating, which strengthen the main medicine's function of removing dampness and clearing heat, and are therefore the assistant medicines. Pinellia and Magnolia officinalis can promote qi and eliminate dampness, disperse lumps and relieve fullness, and are therefore adjuvant drugs.