Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Level Supplementing Settle the Heart Elixir
Pyeongbojinsim-dan
한글 평보진심단 · Pinyin Ping Bu Zhen Xin Dan
Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, coated with cinnabar; 30–50 pills on an empty stomach with warm wine or thin rice water. Note on modern practice: the cinnabar coating is omitted in contemporary preparation.
Composition 構成
- Yongchi龍齒 용치 · Fossilized Tooth100 g
Chief 君 - Sukjihwang熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia60 g
Deputy 臣 - Cheonmundong天門冬 천문동 · Asparagus Root60 g
Deputy 臣 - Wonji遠志 원지 · Polygala60 g
Deputy 臣 ginger-processed - Sanyak山藥 산약 · Chinese Yam60 g
Deputy 臣 - Baekbokryeong白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)50 g
Assistant 佐 - Boksin茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood50 g
Assistant 佐 - Omija五味子 오미자 · Schisandra50 g
Assistant 佐 - Chajeonja車前子 차전자 · Plantago Seed50 g
Assistant 佐 - Yukgye肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark50 g
Assistant 佐 - Maekmundong麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope50 g
Assistant 佐 - Jusa朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)20 g
Assistant 佐 water-levigated, as coating - Insam人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng20 g
Assistant 佐 - Sanjoin酸棗仁 산조인 · Sour Jujube Seed10 g
Assistant 佐 dry-fried
Total 690 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
- Rebuilds a Heart Blood spent by overthinking and anchors the spirit above
- Repairs the Kidney Qi that the same depletion has damaged below
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Thought and worry too great with Heart Blood insufficient (思慮太過 心血不足)
- Palpitations with abstraction and much strange dreaming at night (夜多異夢)
- Kidney Qi damaged and failing
- with seminal loss and white turbidity
- wasting toward frailty
Biomedical correlates
- Anxiety with insomnia and vivid dreams
- Chronic depletion with sexual dysfunction
- Long-course restorative therapy
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治思慮太過, 心血不足, 驚悸怔忡, 神精恍惚, 夜多異夢, 忪悸煩鬱, 及腎氣傷敗, 遺精白濁, 漸至臝弱. 龍齒 二兩半, 熟地黃ㆍ天門冬ㆍ遠志(薑製)ㆍ山藥 各一兩半, 白茯苓ㆍ白茯神ㆍ五味子ㆍ車前子ㆍ肉桂ㆍ麥門冬 各一兩二錢半, 朱砂(水飛爲衣)ㆍ人參 各五錢, 酸棗仁(炒) 二錢半. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 朱砂爲衣, 空心, 溫酒或米飮呑下三五十丸. 《入門》
Translation
Treats thought and worry gone too far with the Heart Blood insufficient: fright palpitations and fearful throbbing, spirit and essence abstracted, much strange dreaming at night, throbbing with vexed constraint — and further, Kidney Qi damaged and failing, with seminal loss and white turbidity, wasting gradually into frailty. Fossilized tooth 2 nyang 5 don; prepared rehmannia, asparagus root, ginger-processed polygala, and dioscorea, 1 nyang 5 don each; white poria, hostwood poria, schisandra, plantago seed, cinnamon bark, and ophiopogon, 1 nyang 2.5 don each; water-levigated cinnabar (as coating) and ginseng, 5 don each; dry-fried sour jujube seed 2.5 don. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, coated with cinnabar; take 30–50 pills on an empty stomach with warm wine or thin rice water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sin)