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Cinnabar Mind-Calming Pill

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Cinnabar Mind-Calming Pill
ChiefZhu Sha
    • calms the mind with heavy sedation
    • clears heart fire
Both are cold in nature and heavy in quality.
This combination serves to calm the mind with heavy sedation and clear the heart to eliminate vexation.
DeputyHuang Lian
    • clears the heart and drains heate
Both are cold in nature and heavy in quality.
This combination serves to calm the mind with heavy sedation and clear the heart to eliminate vexation.
AssistantSheng Di
    • enriches yin and clears heat
AssistantDang Gui
    • supplements blood
    • enriches and nourishes yin-blood when combined with sheng di
EnvoyZhi Gan Cao
    • harmonizes other ingredients
    • harmonizes the center
    • prevents impairment of the stomach by cold and bitter nature of huang lian and the heavy quality of zhu sha
    • enriches and nourishes yin-blood when combined with sheng di

Cinnabar Mind-Calming PillPrescription Information

Name
Cinnabar Mind-Calming Pill
Chinese Name

朱砂安神丸

Classification

Sedative and tranquilizing formulas

Combination
Cinnabaris (Zhu Sha) 5 qian (15g), Coptidis Rhizoma (Huang Lian) 6 qian (18g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma Praeparata cum Melle (Zhi Gan Cao) 5.5 qian (16.5g), Rehmanniae Radix (Sheng Di) 1.5 qian (4.5g), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui) 2.5 qian (7.5g)
Method
Grind the ingredients into powder and shape into pills with honey. One dose is approximately 6-9g taken with warm water before sleep. It can also be prepared as a decoction.
Action
Tranquilizes the heart and calms the mind, clears heat and nourishes the blood.
Indication
Zhu Sha an Shen Wan is indicated for insufficient yin-blood caused by the hyperactivity of heart fire. The symptoms are insomnia, profuse dreaming, (severe) palpitations, restlessness, and vexation. The tongue tip is red, and the pulse is thin and rapid.
Pathogenesis
This formula is applied to patterns of hyperactive heart fire consuming yin-blood. The mind is disturbed by hyperactivity of the heart fire; while, the heart spirit is not nourished because of deficiency of yin-blood. So the symptoms of insomnia, profuse dreaming, palpitations, and vexation occur. The red tongue and thin, rapid pulse are signs of hyperactivity of heart fire and deficiency of yin-blood. The therapeutic method is to reduce excessive heat and enrich yin-blood to calm the mind.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Zhu Sha an Shen Wan is a common formula used to treat mind disturbance due to hyperactivity of the heart fire consuming yin-blood. This clinical pattern is marked by insomnia, palpitations, red tongue, thin, rapid pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of hyperactivity of heart fire consuming yin-blood: insomnia, palpitations, forgetfulness, unclear mind due to melancholia, and palpitations caused by premature heart beating. 3. Cautions and contraindications This formula should not be taken either too much or too long because zhu sha contains mercuric sulfide that can lead to mercury poisoning. It should be used with caution in those with yin deficiency and spleen weakness.
Additonal formulae
Ci Zhu Wan (Loadstones and Cinnabar Pill 磁朱丸), original name: Shen Qu Wan (Medicated Leaven Pill 神曲丸)
Source
《Clarifying Doubts about Damage from Internal and External Causes》Nei Wai Shang Bian Huo Lun《內外傷辨惑論》

Cinnabar Mind-Calming PillFormulation composition herbal medicine

Cinnabar

Cinnabar

Cinnabaris
Functions：Clears heat, calms fright, calms spirit, resolves toxin. Apply to fright, insomnia with nightmares, convulsion, infantile convulsion, blur vision, mouth sore, throat impediment, swelling toxin of sore and ulcer.
Chinese Goldthread Rhizome

Chinese Goldthread Rhizome

Coptidis Rhizoma
Functions：Clears heat, dries dampness, drains fire, resolves toxin. Damp-heat distention and fullness, vomiting and acid regurgitation, diarrhea, jaundice, dizziness with high fever, excess of heart fire, insomnia due to vexation, haematemesis and epistaxis due to blood heat, red eye, toothache, diabetes, abscess, sore and boil swelling, externally used to eczema, ear pus.
Liquorice Root

Liquorice Root

Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma
Functions：Supplements the spleen, boosts qi, clears heat, resolves toxin, dispels phlegm, relieves cough, relaxes tension, relieves pain, harmonizes the nature of other medicinals.
Adhesive Rehmannia Root Tuber

Adhesive Rehmannia Root Tuber

Rehmanniae Radix
Functions：Xian di huang: Clears heat, engenders fluids, cools blood, stops bleeding. Sheng di haung: clears heat, cools blood, nourishes yin, and engenders fluids. Shu di huang: nourishes yin, supplements bloods, boosts essence, and fills the marrow. Apply to yin deficiency and hectic fever, diabetes, hematemesis, non-traumatic hemorrhage, metrorrhagia, irregular menstruation, threatened miscarriage, diarrhea due to yin damage.
Chinese Angelica

Chinese Angelica

Angelicae Sinensis Radix
Functions：Supplements the blood, invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, relieves pain, moistens the intestines, frees the stool. Apply to chlorosis due to hemopenia, vertigo and palpitation, irregular menstrual periods, amenorrhea and painful menstruation, deficiency cold abdominalgia, constipation induced by dryness of the intestine, rheumatic arthralgia, injuries from falls, superficial infection and burns and scalds.
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