Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Lead the Spirit Home Elixir

Insingwisa-dan

한글 인신귀사단 · Pinyin Yin Shen Gui She Dan

引神歸舍丹

猪心血 and the paste are the binder, and the day-lily root decoction the vehicle; neither is counted among the ingredients.

Composition 構成

Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

80 g
Chief 君

processed with ox gall
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

40 g
Deputy 臣
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

28 g
Assistant 佐

steeped in boys' urine and roasted

Total 148 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

Drives out wind phlegm from the heart
Settles the spirit and returns it to its house
Opens the orifices clouded by phlegm

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heart wind with forgetfulness
Forgetfulness following long fearful throbbing
Epilepsy in a patient with much phlegm

Biomedical correlates

Memory impairment after cerebrovascular events
Epilepsy with cognitive decline
Post-stroke cognitive impairment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治心風健忘. 南星(牛膽製) 二兩, 朱砂一兩, 附子(童便浸炮) 七錢. 右爲末, 猪心血和糊作丸梧子大, 每五十丸萱草根煎湯下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats heart wind with forgetfulness. Arisaema (processed with ox gall), 2 nyang; cinnabar, 1 nyang; aconite (steeped in boys' urine and roasted), 7 don. Powder them, mix with pig's heart blood and paste and make pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty with a decoction of day-lily root. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** Cinnabar with roasted aconite, fifty pills at a dose. The name is the chapter's best — 引神歸舍, leading the spirit back to its house, from 神不守舍 at 5.13 — and the formula is cited there for the fat patient with much phlegm and at 5.11 for the forgetfulness that follows long throbbing. 牛膽製南星, arisaema cured in ox gall, is the one part worth keeping: the gall both detoxifies the arisaema and turns it cold, which is why the pairing persists in modern phlegm-heat formulas. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.