Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Cinnabar Wondrous Fragrance Powder

Jinsamyohyang-san

한글 진사묘향산 · Pinyin Chen Sha Miao Xiang San

辰砂妙香散

Finely powdered; 2 don stirred into warm wine — for one who does not drink, into a lotus-seed decoction. Note on modern practice: cinnabar is a mercury sulfide and musk is a protected animal product; both are omitted from contemporary preparations, and the herbal core carries the indication.

Composition 構成

Sanyak Shan Yao
山藥 산약 · Chinese Yam

40 g
Chief 君
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

40 g
Chief 君
Boksin Fu Shen
茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood

40 g
Chief 君
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

40 g
Deputy 臣
Wonji Yuan Zhi
遠志 원지 · Polygala

40 g
Deputy 臣 ginger-processed
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

20 g
Assistant 佐
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

20 g
Assistant 佐
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

12 g
Assistant 佐
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

10 g
Assistant 佐
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

20 g
Envoy 使

Total 286 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 a Heart Qi run short and steadies the moods that swing with it
Settles the vexed sleeplessness of the depleted

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heart Qi insufficient with fright palpitations and fearful throbbing (心氣不足驚悸怔忡)
Abstraction and terror
grief and sorrow
joy and anger without constancy (喜怒不常)
Vacuity vexation with scant sleep (虛煩少睡)

Biomedical correlates

Anxiety with mood lability and insomnia
Emotional volatility in the depleted
Sleep disturbance with rumination

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治心氣不足, 驚悸怔忡, 恍惚恐怖, 悲憂慘戚, 喜怒不常, 虛煩少睡. 山藥ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ茯神ㆍ黃芪ㆍ遠志(薑製) 各一兩, 人參ㆍ桔梗ㆍ甘草各五錢, 朱砂三錢, 木香二錢半, 麝香一錢. 右爲細末, 每二錢, 溫酒調下. 不飮酒人, 以蓮肉煎湯調下. 《得效》

Translation

Treats Heart Qi insufficiency, with fright palpitations and fearful throbbing, abstraction and terror, grief and sorrow and wretchedness, joy and anger without constancy, and vacuity vexation with scant sleep. Dioscorea, white poria, hostwood poria, astragalus, and ginger-processed polygala, 1 nyang each; ginseng, platycodon, and licorice, 5 don each; cinnabar 3 don; aucklandia 2.5 don; musk 1 don. Powder finely; take 2 don stirred into warm wine — for one who does not drink wine, stirred into a lotus-seed decoction. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The indication is a mood description rather than a symptom list — terror and abstraction, grief, and *joy and anger without constancy*, which is as close as the classical vocabulary comes to naming emotional lability. The construction answers it by supplementing rather than sedating: dioscorea and two porias at the head, astragalus and polygala behind. The instruction for non-drinkers, taking it in lotus-seed broth instead of wine, is a small courtesy typical of this formulary. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.