Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Vermilion Bird Pill
Jujak-hwan
한글 주작환 · Pinyin Zhu Que Wan
Two ingredients, powdered and bound with steamed cake soaked in hot water into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, coated with 5 don of water-levigated cinnabar; 50 pills with a ginseng decoction. Note on modern practice: the cinnabar coating is omitted in contemporary preparation.
Composition 構成
Total 100 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Settles a spirit that will not stay fixed and a mind gone abstracted
- Draws down a fire that will not descend
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Heart spirit unsettled with abstraction and forgetfulness (心神不定 恍惚健忘)
- Fire not descending
- with the heart leaping from time to time (火不下降 時復振跳)
- Restless palpitation with poor recall
Biomedical correlates
- Anxiety with memory complaints
- Palpitations with restlessness
- Sleep disturbance with rumination
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治心神不定, 恍惚健忘, 火不下降, 時復振跳. 白茯神 二兩, 沈香 五錢. 右爲末, 以湯浸蒸餠和丸梧子大, 以朱砂五錢水飛爲衣, 人參湯下五十丸. 《入門》 《正傳》
Translation
Treats a Heart spirit unsettled, abstraction and forgetfulness, fire that does not descend, and the heart leaping again from time to time. Hostwood poria 2 nyang; aquilaria 5 don. Powder the pair and bind with steamed cake soaked in hot water into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, coated with 5 don of water-levigated cinnabar; take 50 pills with a ginseng decoction. — Immun 入門 · Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Sin)