Eight-Ingredient Calming Pills

Eight-Ingredient Calming Pills,Deficiency of Heart Qi.

Formulas Name : Eight-Ingredient Calming Pills

Chinese Name : 八物定志丸

Drug Formulation

Ginseng (root tip removed) 1 liang, Polygala (boiled, core removed) 1 liang,Poria (wood removed) 1 liang, sour jujube seeds (peeled, lightly roasted) 1 liang (ground separately), cinnabar (ground separately) half a liang, purple quartz (calcined, quenched in vinegar 7 times, ground separately and washed with water) half a liang, Acorus tatarinowii (soaked in rice washing water overnight) half a liang, frankincense (ground separately) half a liang.

Source

From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder, then boil jujube pulp to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

Deficiency of Heart Qi.

Instructions for Use

Take 30 pills at a time, washed down with jujube broth or warm wine, at any time of day.

Eight-Ingredient Calming Pills,From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.,Deficiency of Heart Qi.

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