Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Master Zhu's Reading Pill

Jujadokseo-hwan

한글 주자독서환 · Pinyin Zhu Zi Du Shu Wan

朱子讀書丸

Composition 構成

Boksin Fu Shen
茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood

40 g
Chief 君
Wonji Yuan Zhi
遠志 원지 · Polygala

40 g
Chief 君

processed with ginger
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

28 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

28 g
Deputy 臣
Seokchangpo Shi Chang Pu
石菖蒲 석창포 · Acorus

20 g
Assistant 佐
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

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

—
Assistant 佐

as coating
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

10 g
Envoy 使

Total 186 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Quiets the spirit and opens the orifices
Supplements the qi and moves phlegm from the heart
Sharpens recall

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Forgetfulness
Poor recall with a heavy clouded head
Forgetfulness with phlegm and a weak appetite

Biomedical correlates

Memory complaints
Poor concentration
Mild cognitive impairment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治健忘. 茯神ㆍ遠志(薑製) 各一兩, 人參ㆍ陳皮各七錢, 石菖蒲ㆍ當歸各五錢, 甘草二錢半. 右爲末, 麵糊和丸菉豆大, 朱砂爲衣, 臨臥以燈心煎湯下五七十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats forgetfulness. Poria spirit and polygala (processed with ginger), 1 nyang each; ginseng and tangerine peel, 7 don each; acorus and angelica, 5 don each; licorice, 2 don 5 fun. Powder them, make pills the size of a mung bean with wheat-flour paste, coat with cinnabar, and take fifty to seventy at bedtime with a decoction of rush pith. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Seven medicinals, the plainest of the forgetfulness formulas, and the only mineral is in the coating — **which should be left off.** 茯神ㆍ遠志ㆍ石菖蒲 is the standing trio for opening the heart's orifices, and the 人參ㆍ陳皮ㆍ甘草 behind it is 四君子湯 minus the atractylodes. Named for Zhu Xi, as 孔子大聖枕中方 is named for Confucius: the scholar's formula, taken at bedtime. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.