Cinnabar Original-Qi Boosting Powder

Jinsaigwon-san

한글 진사익원산 · Pinyin Chen Sha Yi Yuan San

辰砂益元散

Cinnabar is mercuric sulphide and toxic. This is the 辰砂益元散 cited in 暑門 and registered here, where the Bogam gives its composition.

Composition 構成

Hwalseok Hua Shi
滑石 활석 · Talc

240 g
Chief 君
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

40 g
Deputy 臣

toxic
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

40 g
Envoy 使

Total 320 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

Drains heat through the urine
Settles the spirit in delirium

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold damage with fever that will not abate and delirium
Summerheat or fire harassing the heart

Biomedical correlates

Febrile delirium
Heat exhaustion with agitation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷寒熱不退ㆍ狂言譫語. 滑石六兩, 甘草ㆍ辰砂各一兩. 右細末, 每二錢, 井水調下, 日二三. 《入門》

Translation

Treats cold damage with fever that will not abate, wild speech and delirium. Talc, 6 nyang; licorice and cinnabar, 1 nyang each. Grind fine, and take 2 don stirred into well water, two or three times a day. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Six-to-One Powder — talc and licorice in the classic proportion — with cinnabar added, which is why the name says original qi: the base formula is the standard summerheat remedy that drains fire out through the urine without exhausting the patient. Adding cinnabar aims it at the spirit as well, for the delirium. The talc-to-licorice ratio of six to one is the whole point of the base and worth keeping; the cinnabar is not, being mercuric sulphide and cumulative. Taken in cool well water rather than a decoction, since nothing in it benefits from heating. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.