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Level Supplementing Settle the Heart Elixir

Pyeongbojinsim-dan

한글 평보진심단  ·  Pinyin Ping Bu Zhen Xin Dan

平補鎭心丹

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

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

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)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The formula that treats both ends of a single exhaustion. Its indication runs from the mind downward — overthinking, palpitations, strange dreams — and then keeps going: Kidney Qi damaged and failing, seminal loss, and a person gradually wasting. Fossilized tooth anchors above while rehmannia, asparagus, and dioscorea rebuild below, with a whisper of cinnamon to keep the whole from going cold. 'Level supplementing' names the intent exactly: nothing forced in either direction. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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