HERB FORMULAS

DING ZHI WAN -定志丸 - SETTLE THE EMOTIONS PILL

English: Settle the Emotions Pill
Also Known As:

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Rx. Ginseng Ren Shen 9g Tonifies Heart Qi and calms the Spirit
With Fu Ling, Shi Chang Pu and Yuan Zhi, for confusion and forgetfulness.
Poria Fu Ling 9g Quiets the Heart, calms the Spirit and soothes the nerves.
With Shi Chang Pu and Yuan Zhi, for insomnia and palpitations due to Spleen and Heart Insufficiency or Phlegm Obstructing the Heart.
Rz. Acori Tatarinowii Shi Chang Pu 6g Opens the Orifices, vaporizes Phlegm, removes filth, calms the Spirit and disperses Wind.
With Yuan Zhi and Fu Ling, for forgetfulness, tinnitus, and impaired hearing.
With Ren Shen, Fu Ling and Yuan Zhi, for forgetfulness and dulled senses.
Rx. Polygalae Yuan Zhi 6g Calms the Spirit and sedates the Heart and clears the channel joining the Heart and Kidney.
With Ren Shen, Fu Ling and Shi Chang Pu, calms the spirit.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Calms the Shen
  • Tonifies the Heart Qi
  • Pacifies timidity

SYNDROMES

  • Heart and Gallbladder Qi Deficiency
  • Heart Qi Deficiency and Stagnation due to Phlegm Turbidity

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Insomnia or frequent waking, often early in the morning
  • Unable to fall back to sleep
  • Nightmares
  • Waking terrified
  • Easily frightened or startled
  • Easily unsettled by seeming trivial events
  • Apprehension
  • Restlessness
  • Fearfulness
  • Inappropriate worry
  • Timidity
  • Phobias
  • Anxiety (frequent and severe)
  • Feeling disheartened
  • Forgetfulness
  • Frequent panic attacks
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Incessant laughter and glee
  • Lethargy
  • Fatigue
  • Depression
  • Postnatal depression
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Worry
  • Dizziness
  • T: Normal or Pale (chronic or congenital cases may show a deep narrow crack to the tip
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry and thready or Weak, thready and rapid

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Modify for those with Yin or Blood Deficiency.
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For Blood Deficiency: For significant insomnia and palpitations, add one or two of the following:
+ 6g Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui + 6g Fr. Schisandrae Wu Wei Zi
+ 6g Rx. Paeoniae Alba Bai Shao + 9g Sm. Platycladi Bai Zi Ren
For depression:
+ 6g. Caulis Polygoni Multiflori Ye Jiao Teng
+ 6g Cx. Albizziae He Huan Pi + 6g Concha Ostreae Mu Li
For severe Qi Deficiency, add one or two of the following:
+ 6g Fr. Hordei Germinatus Mai Ya
+ 6g Rx. Codonopsis Dang Shen
For spontaneous sweating:
+ 6g Rz. Polygonati Huang Jing + 6g Concha Ostreae Mu Li
+ 6g Rx. Astragali Huang Qi + 4g Rx. Ephedrae Ma Huang Gen
For severe palpitations:
+ 4g Sm. Tritici Levis Fu Xiao Mai
+ Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu
For upward rebellion of Phlegm:
+ Succinum Hu Po + Rz. Pinelliae Preparatum Zhi Ban Xia
For Heart Blood Deficiency:
+ Succus Bambusae Zhu Li
+ Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui
For more severe fright palpitations, disorientation, restlessness and insomnia:
+ Sm. Zizyphi Spinosae Suan Zao Ren + Fossilia Dentis Mastodi Long Chi
+ Arillus Longan Long Yan Rou + Sm. Zizyphi Spinosae Suan Zao Ren
For more severe restlessness and insomnia:
+ Frusta Ferri Sheng Tie Luo
+ Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen + Rx. Ophiopogonis Mai Men Dong
+ Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae Bai Zhu + Cinnabaris Zhu Sha
+ Rx. Ophiopogonis Mai Men Dong + Moschus She Xiang
+ Cinnabar us Zhu Sha + Olibanum Ru Xiang
For those with fear and fright who have insomnia and anger easily:
+ Succinum Hu Po
For cardiac arrhythmia and palpitations:
+ Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen
+ Warm Gallbladder Decoction
Wen Dan Tang
+ Cinnabaris Zhu Sha
For palpitations, anxiety neurosis, involutional psychosis,premenstrual syndrome, sinus tachycardia, depression and panic attacks:
- Poria Fu Ling
+ Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen
+ Succinum Hu Po
+ 6g Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu + Rx. Curcumae Yu Jin
+ Calculus Bovis Niu Huang
+ 3g Succinum Hu Po
For palpitations, anxiety neurosis, involutional psychosis,premenstrual syndrome, sinus tachycardia, depression and panic attacks with Blood Deficiency:
For insomnia:
+ 9g Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen
+ 12g Sm. Zizyphi Spinosae Suan Zao Ren + 6g Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu
+ 12g calcined Dens Draconis Duan Long Chi + 3g Succinum Hu Po
6g Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui
+ 1g Succinum Hu Po
    + 6g Rx. Paeoniae Alba Bai Shao