Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Uibang Jimnyak (醫方集略)

Augmented Quiet the Spirit Pill

Gamiyeongsin-hwan

한글 가미영신환 · Pinyin Jia Wei Ning Shen Wan

加味寧神丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of mung beans, coated with cinnabar; 50–70 pills with a jujube decoction. Note on modern practice: the cinnabar coating is omitted in contemporary preparation.

Composition 構成

Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

60 g
Chief 君 dried (生乾)
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

40 g
Deputy 臣
Boksin Fu Shen
茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood

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

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

40 g
Assistant 佐
Paemo Bei Mu
貝母 패모 · Fritillaria

40 g
Assistant 佐 dry-fried
Wonji Yuan Zhi
遠志 원지 · Polygala

28 g
Assistant 佐 ginger-processed
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

28 g
Assistant 佐
Sanjoin Suan Zao Ren
酸棗仁 산조인 · Sour Jujube Seed

20 g
Assistant 佐 dry-fried
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

20 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

20 g
Envoy 使

Total 416 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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

Refills a Heart Blood run short and quiets what its shortage has unsettled
Clears the phlegm and fire that gather in the emptied space

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heart Blood insufficient with fright palpitations and fearful throbbing (心血不足驚悸怔忡)
Forgetfulness and abstraction (健忘恍惚)
All patterns of phlegm and fire (一切痰火之證)

Biomedical correlates

Anxiety with memory complaints
Palpitations with restlessness and phlegm signs
Long-course settling and supplementing

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治心血不足, 驚悸怔忡, 健忘恍惚, 一切痰火之證. 生乾地黃一兩半, 當歸ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ白茯神ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ陳皮ㆍ貝母(炒) 各一兩, 遠志(薑製)ㆍ川芎各七錢, 酸棗仁(炒)ㆍ黃連ㆍ甘草各五錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸菉豆大, 朱砂爲衣, 棗湯下五七十丸. 《集略》

Translation

Treats Heart Blood insufficiency, with fright palpitations and fearful throbbing, forgetfulness and abstraction, and all patterns of phlegm and fire. Dried raw rehmannia 1 nyang 5 don; Korean angelica, white peony, hostwood poria, ophiopogon, tangerine peel, and dry-fried fritillaria, 1 nyang each; ginger-processed polygala and cnidium, 7 don each; dry-fried sour jujube seed, coptis, and licorice, 5 don each. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of mung beans, coated with cinnabar; take 50–70 pills with a jujube decoction. — Jimnyak 集略 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The most balanced of the chapter's settling pills, and the one whose composition would raise the fewest eyebrows today — Four Substances at the base minus the warming pair, hostwood poria and sour jujube seed settling, fritillaria and tangerine peel for the phlegm, and a small measure of coptis for the fire. Its indication claims both territories at once: the depletion, and 'all patterns of phlegm and fire' that collect in what the depletion emptied. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.