Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Various formularies (諸方)
Settle the Will Pill
Jeongji-hwan
한글 정지환 · Pinyin Ding Zhi Wan
Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 50 pills with thin rice water. Note on modern practice: cinnabar (朱砂) is a mercury sulfide, restricted in contemporary practice and omitted from modern preparations; the remaining five herbs carry the formula's indication.
Composition 構成
- Insam人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng120 g
Chief 君 - Baekbokryeong白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)120 g
Deputy 臣 - Boksin茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood120 g
Deputy 臣 - Seokchangpo石菖蒲 석창포 · Acorus80 g
Assistant 佐 - Wonji遠志 원지 · Polygala80 g
Assistant 佐 prepared - Jusa朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)40 g
Assistant 佐 half worked in, half as coating
Total 560 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
- Settles a spirit that will not rest and a will that will not hold
- Supplements the Heart Qi beneath the restlessness
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Heart Qi insufficient with sudden forgetting (心氣不足 忽忽喜忘)
- Spirit and ethereal soul unquiet with fright palpitations and timid fear (驚悸恐怯)
- Troubled and inauspicious dreaming (夢寐不祥)
Biomedical correlates
- Anxiety with poor memory and disturbed sleep
- Timidity and startle response
- Sleep with unsettling dreams
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治心氣不足, 忽忽喜忘, 神魂不安, 驚悸恐怯, 夢寐不祥. 人參ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ茯神 各三兩, 石菖蒲ㆍ遠志(製) 各二兩, 朱砂 一兩(內半爲衣). 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 米湯下五十丸.
Translation
Treats Heart Qi insufficiency, with sudden and heedless forgetting, spirit and ethereal soul unquiet, fright palpitations and timid fear, and troubled, inauspicious dreaming. Ginseng, white poria, and hostwood poria, 3 nyang each; acorus and prepared polygala, 2 nyang each; cinnabar 1 nyang, half worked into the mass and half used as a coating. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 50 pills with thin rice water. — Donguibogam · Sin