Sanren Tang is a damp-eliminating medicine that has the effects of promoting qi circulation, clearing damp-heat. It is mainly used to treat the following three diseases when dampness is heavier than heat:
1. Dampness Elimination
Dampness can be stubborn, but you can take Sanren Tang to help eliminate it. Sanren Tang is made with apricot kernels, cardamom seeds, coix seeds, bamboo leaves, scrophularia, magnolia bark, and talcum.
Among them, apricot kernels can enter the upper burner (heart and lungs) to help with respiration and sweating; cardamom seeds can enter the middle burner (spleen and stomach) to help with tonifying the spleen; coix seeds can enter the lower burner (liver and kidneys) to help with bowel movements and urination. In addition, during the summer, it is not advisable to eat too much, too oily, or too cold food.
2. Acute Jaundice Hepatitis
Use this formula by removing pinellia, magnolia bark, and talcum, and adding 10g of salvia miltiorrhiza, 15g of lophatherum gracile, and 15g of polygonum cuspidatum. Double the dosage for severe cases and take it as a decoction. Take 1 dose daily. This treatment was used on 72 cases of the disease. Results: 64 cases were cured, 7 cases showed significant improvement, and 1 case showed no improvement.
3. Cholecystitis
This formula is used as the main formula. If there is aversion to cold and bitter taste, add bupleurum and scutellaria; if there is rib pain, add curcuma wenyujin and cyperus rotundus; if there is abdominal distension and vomiting, add agastache rugosa and magnolia officinalis; if there is jaundice, add lophatherum gracile; if there is aversion to oily and greasy food, add hawthorn and wheat.
