Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Poria Supplement the Heart Decoction for Heart Sweat

Bokryeongbosim-tang

한글 복령보심탕 (심한) · Pinyin Fu Ling Bu Xin Tang

茯苓補心湯

Not the Three Causes formula for vomiting of blood registered as bokryeongbosim-tang; the two share a name only.

Composition 構成

Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

4 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

4 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Deputy 臣
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Sanjoin Suan Zao Ren
酸棗仁 산조인 · Sour Jujube Seed

4 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried (炒)
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

4 g
Deputy 臣
Maekmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

4 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

2 g
Assistant 佐

stirred in · toxic
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

8 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

1.2 g
Envoy 使
Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

—
Envoy 使

1
Busomaek Fu Xiao Mai
浮小麥 부소맥 · Light Wheat

—
Envoy 使

100 grains

Total 51.2 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Treats heart sweat — sweating at the heart's hollow and nowhere else — from binding of the seven affects

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sweat only over the heart
from the seven affects bound up

Biomedical correlates

Localized chest sweating with anxiety

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治心汗. 心汗者, 心孔有汗, 別處無也. 因七情鬱結而成. 白茯苓ㆍ人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ當歸ㆍ生地黃ㆍ酸棗仁(炒)ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ陳皮ㆍ黃連各一錢, 甘草三分, 朱砂五分, 別爲末. 右剉, 作一貼, 棗二枚, 烏梅一箇, 浮小麥百粒, 同煎, 調朱砂末服之. 《回春》

Translation

Treats heart sweat. Heart sweat is sweat at the heart's hollow and nowhere else, and it forms from binding of the seven affects. White poria, ginseng, white atractylodes, angelica, fresh rehmannia, jujube kernel (stir-fried), white peony, ophiopogon, tangerine peel and coptis 1 don each; licorice 3 pun; cinnabar 5 pun, powdered separately. Cut up, make one packet, decoct with 2 jujubes, 1 mume and 100 grains of light wheat, and take with the cinnabar powder stirred in. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Jinaek)

Clinical commentary 臨床

因七情鬱結 — from the seven affects bound up. The Hoechun's heart sweat is an emotional one, and the formula answers with the Spirit chapter's medicinals and coptis to cool the heart. Sweating confined to the chest in anxious patients is a real pattern. **Contains cinnabar, which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.