What Are the Key Benefits and Functions of Taking Sanmiao Pills?

三妙丸 Introduction

Many people are not particularly familiar with Sanmiao Pill, which is a common traditional Chinese medicine. It has a wide range of therapeutic effects. For example, its main effects are pain relief, swelling reduction, heat clearing, and dampness drying. It is often used in clinical practice to treat osteoarthritis, prostatic hyperplasia, and other diseases. It also has the function of enhancing immune function and improving blood-related functions. Let's take a brief look at the efficacy and functions of Sanmiao Pill.

1. What are the Effects and Functions of Sanmiao Pill?

The main functions of Sanmiao Pill are clearing dampness and heat, reducing swelling, and relieving pain. It is used for the treatment of damp-heat syndrome, eczema itching, foot swelling, and damp-heat discharge caused by downward flow of damp-heat. It is commonly used for the treatment of symptoms such as redness, swelling, and pain in the knees and ankles, low back pain, fatigue, anorexia, yellow discharge with foul odor, vaginal itching, and short and dark urine. In modern times, it is often used for the treatment of rheumatic arthritis, severe myasthenia, progressive muscle atrophy of the lower limbs, scrotal eczema, pelvic inflammatory disease, cervicitis, and other conditions with the above manifestations.

2. Effects and Functions of Sanmiao Pill in Clinical Trials:

1) It has an anti-prostatic hyperplasia effect: It can reduce the wet weight and prostatic index of the experimental prostatic hyperplasia model mice and rats induced by injection of testosterone propionate; inhibit the activity of serum acid phosphatase in mice and increase the level of serum estradiol in mice; reduce the content of serum zinc in rats.

2) It has an effect on improving hemorheology: It can reduce the whole blood viscosity and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in rats with experimental prostatic hyperplasia, as well as the erythrocyte aggregation index and hematocrit.

3) It has a diuretic effect: It can increase the urine volume of normal rats and promote the excretion of Cl-, Na+, and K+.

4) It has an immune-enhancing effect: It can improve the clearance ability of carbon particles in the blood of mice, increase the lymphocyte transformation rate of mice, and promote the production of hemolysin antibodies.

3. Dosage and Administration of Sanmiao Pill:

Ingredients: Cortex Phellodendri (sliced and stir-fried with wine) 120 grams, Rhizoma Atractylodis (soaked in rice water for one or two nights, finely cut, and baked) 180 grams, Radix Cyathulae (without rhizome) 60 grams.

Method: Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, mix with flour paste to form pills, the size of which is similar to the seeds of Chinese parasol tree. Take 50 to 70 pills each time, taken on an empty stomach with ginger and salt soup.