Mind with the sinking substances Long Gu and Mu Li.
Mental-Emotional Pattern
This formula is suitable, with adaptations, to treat the mental restlessness deriving from
Kidney-Yin deficiency and Heart deficiency. Fear, guilt and shock, perhaps combined with
overwork and/or excessive sexual activity, may lead to this condition, which guilt is especially
liable to cause. This emotion, when suffered for a long time, weakens the Kidneys and the
Will-Power and it gnaws away at the Mind, thus depleting the Heart. Such patients are very
anxious and mentally restless, and they sleep fitfully. They tend to be thin (indicating Yin
deficiency), are tired, depressed, and lack will-power.
Zhen Zhong Dan
(Bedside Pill)
Gui Ban Plastrum Testudinis 10 g
Long Gu Os Draconis 10 g
Yuan Zhi Radix Polygalae tenuifoliae 10 g
Shi Chang Pu Rhizoma Acori graminei 10 gExplanation
- Gui Ban nourishes Kidney-Yin and clears Empty-Heat.
- Long Gu calms the Mind.
- Yuan Zhi and Chang Pu open the Mind's orifices, calm the Mind and benefit
intelligence and wisdom. These two herbs, combined with Gui Ban and Long Gu,
harmonize Heart and Kidneys and calm the Mind.
This formula nourishes Kidney-Yin, strengthens Will-Power and intelligence and calms the
Mind. It differs from the previous one in so far as it is slightly more directed at opening the
Mind's orifices and clearing the Heart, whilst the previous one tonifies the Heart.
On a physical level, the manifestations corresponding to this prescription would include
insomnia, anxiety, backache, night-sweating, dizziness, tinnitus, poor memory, a Red tongue
without coating and a Floating-Empty pulse.
Mental-Emotional Pattern
A person with this condition would suffer from a confused Mind and would be unable to see