Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Samin (三因)

Settle the Heart Elixir for Mania

Jinsim-dan

한글 진심단 · Pinyin Zhen Xin Dan

鎭心丹

等分, equal parts, with no weight given; 40 g each is entered as a nominal figure so the proportions hold. The Spirit chapter carries two different formulas called 鎭心丹, both from the Samin — this one for mania, on leaf 072b, and one for fright palpitation on leaf 062a made of cinnabar with fossilised tooth.

Composition 構成

Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

40 g
Chief 君

water-ground
Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

40 g
Chief 君

calcined

Total 80 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

Weighs down and settles a spirit that has fled
Astringes and dries phlegm
Gathers back soul and spirit

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Mania and withdrawal with the souls lost
Behaviour as though possessed
Mania after a terror

Biomedical correlates

Acute psychosis
Dissociative states
Delirium

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治狂癲亡魂失魄, 狀若神靈所憑. 辰砂(水飛)ㆍ白礬(煆) 各等分. 右爲末, 水丸芡仁大, 每一丸人參煎湯化下. 《三因》

Translation

Treats mania and withdrawal with the ethereal soul gone and the corporeal soul lost, the patient behaving as though possessed by a spirit. Cinnabar (water-ground) and alum (calcined), in equal parts. Powder them, make pills with water the size of a water-chestnut, and dissolve one at a time in ginseng decoction. — Samin 三因 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** Cinnabar with calcined alum, nothing else. 狀若神靈所憑, behaving as though possessed, is the Bogam's description rather than its explanation — the chapter nowhere treats possession as a cause, and 亡魂失魄 is its own language for the loss of self in psychosis. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.