Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Bonsa (本事)

Polygala Pill

Wonji-hwan

한글 원지환  ·  Pinyin Yuan Zhi Wan

遠志丸

Composition 構成

Total 136 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • After fright — speech confused and mistaken

Biomedical correlates

  • Disordered speech after psychological trauma

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治因驚言語顚錯. 遠志(薑製)ㆍ南星(牛膽製)ㆍ人參ㆍ白附子ㆍ白茯神ㆍ酸棗仁(炒) 各五錢, 朱砂(水飛) 三錢, 麝香 一錢, 金箔 五片. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 朱砂爲衣, 薄荷湯下三十丸, 日再服. 《本事》

Translation

Treats speech gone wrong and disordered after a fright. Polygala (ginger-processed), arisaema (processed with ox bile), ginseng, typhonium, poria with pine root and jujube kernel (stir-fried) 5 don each; cinnabar (water-ground) 3 don; musk 1 don; gold leaf 5 pieces. Powder them, make honey pills the size of a firmiana seed coated with cinnabar, and take thirty with mint decoction, twice a day. — Bonsa 本事 (Donguibogam · Eoneo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Xu Shuwei's pill, and it treats both halves of 4.17.1 at once: bile-processed arisaema and typhonium for the stubborn phlegm blocking the heart's orifice, polygala and poria-with-pine- root for the spirit, and the heavy minerals to settle it. Gold leaf as the outermost coating is the tradition's way of weighting a spirit-calming pill. **Contains typhonium and cinnabar, both toxic; musk is from a CITES-listed species.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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