Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Mangye (回春)
Amber Settle the Will Pill
Hobakjeongji-hwan
한글 호박정지환 · Pinyin Hu Po Ding Zhi Wan
The arisaema preparation is the most elaborate in the chapter: a pit is dug and eighteen geun of charcoal burned in it until red, the ash cleared away, and ten-odd geun of good wine poured in; an earthen bowl holding the arisaema is set within, covered, and banked with charcoal so that no vapor escapes — the next day it is taken out and powdered. Human milk with ginger juice is used in processing. Powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 50–70 pills with a ginger decoction at bedtime. **Note on modern practice: cinnabar is a mercury sulfide, and human milk and animal bile as processing media are not used in contemporary practice; recorded as text.**
Composition 構成
- Namseong天南星 천남성 · Arisaema320 g
Chief 君 wine-pit roasted — see preparation note - Insam人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng120 g
Deputy 臣 - Baekbokryeong白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)120 g
Deputy 臣 - Boksin茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood120 g
Deputy 臣 - Jusa朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)80 g
Assistant 佐 sewn inside a boar's heart and boiled in two bowls of wine - Seokchangpo石菖蒲 석창포 · Acorus80 g
Assistant 佐 pig-bile-fried - Wonji遠志 원지 · Polygala80 g
Assistant 佐 flesh taken, boiled dry in pig bile, then ginger-juice processed - Hobak琥珀 호박 · Amber40 g
Assistant 佐
Total 960 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
- Supplements the Heart so that Blood is engendered
- Settles the ethereal and corporeal souls and steadies Liver and Gallbladder
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Spirit and ethereal soul startled and trembling (神魂驚戰)
- Weakness with the Qi run short (虛弱氣乏)
- Timidity with startle response on a depleted ground
Biomedical correlates
- Anxiety with startle response and fatigue
- Trembling with depletion
- Long-course settling therapy
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
補心生血, 安魂定魄, 扶肝壯膽. 管轄神魂驚戰, 虛弱氣乏之疾. 天南星 八兩(先掘地作坑, 置炭十八斤燒紅, 去灰淨, 好酒十餘斤傾坑內, 瓦盆盛南星安其中, 盖覆, 以炭火擁定, 勿令泄氣, 次日取出爲末), 人乳(薑汁製)ㆍ人參ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ白茯神 各三兩, 大朱砂(公猪心割開入內, 線縛懸胎, 酒二椀煮)ㆍ石菖蒲(猪膽汁炒)ㆍ遠志(取肉, 猪膽煮乾, 再用薑汁製) 各二兩, 眞琥珀 一兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 夜臥時, 薑湯下五七十丸. 《回春》
Translation
Supplements the Heart and engenders Blood, quiets the ethereal soul and settles the corporeal soul, strengthens the Liver and fortifies the Gallbladder. It governs illnesses of spirit and ethereal soul startled and trembling, with weakness and the Qi run short. Arisaema 8 nyang — first dig a pit and place eighteen geun of charcoal in it, burn until red and clear away the ash; pour ten-odd geun of good wine into the pit, set an earthen bowl holding the arisaema within, cover it, and bank it with charcoal so that no vapor escapes; the next day take it out and powder it. Human milk processed with ginger juice, ginseng, white poria, and hostwood poria, 3 nyang each; large cinnabar — sewn inside a boar's heart, bound with thread and suspended, boiled in two bowls of wine — pig-bile-fried acorus, and polygala (the flesh taken, boiled dry in pig bile, then processed with ginger juice), 2 nyang each; true amber 1 nyang. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 50–70 pills with a ginger decoction at bedtime. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Sin)