Suk saiyat
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| Kind | Traditional medicine |
|---|---|
| Part of the plant | Leaf |
| Also called | Suk Sai-Yad สุขไสยาสน์ |
| Language | Thai |
| Country | Thailand |
|---|---|
| Recorded in | Tamra Phra Osot Phra Narai |
| Still made | Yes |
Suk saiyat (ศุขไสยาศน์) is a powdered medicine of Thai traditional medicine given to help sleep and to stir the appetite. It is made of twelve drugs, the largest share of which is cannabis leaf. It is formula 44 of the Tamra Phra Osot Phra Narai, the collection of royal formulas from the reign of King Narai, which spells it ยาสุขไสยาสน์.[1]: 19–20
Making Suk saiyat
The Narai text takes the twelve drugs in parts rising from one to twelve: camphor 1, neem leaf 2, hatsakhun thet 3, samun waeng 4, black cumin 5, kot kraduk 6, nutmeg 7, the flower of bunnak 8, pepper 9, dried ginger 10, long pepper 11 and cannabis leaf 12. They are ground to a powder and dissolved in honey. Before taking it the patient recites the verse Sabbītiyo three times, then takes a fitting dose. The text gives it for all diseases, to bring strength, the ability to eat and sound sleep.[1]: 19–20 The leaf is 12 of the 78 parts, or 15.38 per cent of the formula.[2]: 295, 297
The national list of essential herbal medicines of 2023 keeps the same twelve drugs, weighed in grams from 1 to 12, as a powder or in capsules. The list gives the medicine to help sleep and to stir the appetite, at 0.5 to 2 grams before bed for sleeplessness or before meals for loss of appetite, with honey. It is to be prescribed by a doctor of Thai traditional or applied Thai traditional medicine, or by someone the head of the health facility appoints.[3]: 123
Use since 2019
Suk saiyat was one of the 16 cannabis formulas that the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine named in January 2019 for use once the narcotics law allowed it.[4][5]: 334 Because it is made with the leaf, notifications of the Ministry of Public Health of December 2020 and February 2021 took it off the list of Category 5 narcotics.[2]: 297
At the Thai-medicine cannabis clinic of the Rajamangala University of Technology Isan in Sakon Nakhon, it was prescribed more often than any of the other fourteen cannabis formulas between February 2020 and January 2022.[6] Two studies followed patients given it: at the department's hospital in Bangkok between October 2019 and December 2020, and patients with sleeplessness at Phra Arjarn Fhan Arjaro Hospital in Sakon Nakhon in 2020.[2]: 295[7]: 317
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ตำราพระโอสถพระนารายณ์ [King Narai's medical treatise] (PDF) (cremation volume) (in ไทย) (7th printing ed.). Bangkok: Fine Arts Department. 1965. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Boontham, Apakorn; Nootim, Preecha; Dilokthornsakul, Piyameth (May–August 2022). "รูปแบบการสั่งใช้ ความปลอดภัย และผลต่อคุณภาพชีวิตของตำรับยาศุขไสยาศน์" [Prescribing patterns, safety and effect of Suk Sai-Yad Thai traditional medicine formula on patients' quality of life]. Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine (in ไทย). 20 (2): 295–310.
- ↑ Herbal Products Division, Food and Drug Administration (2023). บัญชียาหลักแห่งชาติด้านสมุนไพร พ.ศ. 2566 [National List of Essential Medicines: herbal medicines, B.E. 2566] (PDF) (in ไทย). Food and Drug Administration (Thailand). ISBN 978-974-244-453-2. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ "เปิด 16 ตำรับยาแผนไทยผสมกัญชา เน้น'แก้ลม แก้ปวด แก้เส้น' พร้อมจัดระบบหมอพื้นบ้าน!" [Sixteen Thai traditional formulas with cannabis revealed, chiefly for wind, pain and the sinews, with a system for folk healers]. Matichon (in ไทย). 25 January 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ Chokevivat, Vichai (2019). "กัญชา เป็นยาวิเศษ จริงหรือ" [Cannabis: is it really a magic medicine?]. Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine (in ไทย). 17 (2): 324–340.
- ↑ Srithat, Dutsadee; Pranakhon, Ratree; Khamluerit, Phakamas; Tongkasee, Pongsathorn; Sansupa, Kanokwan (26 April 2022). "การให้บริการตำรับยาที่มีกัญชาปรุงผสมในคลินิกกัญชาทางการแพทย์แผนไทย มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลอีสาน วิทยาเขตสกลนคร" [The service of medicinal recipes containing cannabis mixed in Thai traditional medical cannabis clinics of Rajamangala University of Technology Isan Sakon Nakhon Campus]. วารสารวิชาการกัญชา กัญชง และสมุนไพร (in ไทย). 1: 1–9. ISSN 2985-0177.
- ↑ Tipratchadaporn, Sasipong; Srita, Jariya; Pomchaiya, Pipatpong; Boonyawan, Somreuthai; Silarak, Kanyapak (May–August 2021). "ประโยชน์และความปลอดภัยของตำรับยาศุขไสยาศน์ในผู้ป่วยที่มีภาวะนอนไม่หลับ" [Benefit and safety of Suk Sai-Yad traditional medicine recipe in patients with insomnia]. Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine (in ไทย). 19 (2): 317–330.