WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

[SOURCE]: Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold for Emergencies

[INGREDIENTS]:Magnetite 60g,  Cinnabar 30g,  Medicated leaven 120g

[DIRECTIONS]： Grind all herbs in the recipe into fine powder, and then mix them with honey to make into pills, take 6 grams each time, twice a day with warm boiled water. It can also be made into decoction, with the dosage reduced proportionally.

[EFFECTS]: Relieving palpitation and tranquilizing the mind, settling yang and clearing vision.   

[INDICATIONS]: Syndrome of discordance between water and fire manifested by palpitation, insomnia, tinnitus, deafness, blurring of vision. Also for epilepsy. 

[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: Magnetite as a principal herb, effecting on the Kidney Meridian, replenishes yin to settle down yang and tranquilizes the mind. Cinnabar as assistant herb, acting on the Heart Meridian, can clear the heart to tranquilize the mind. The combination of these two herbs can settle down the floating yang, and blend the water and fire, leading to the harmony between the heart-fire and kidney-water. Medicated heaven, as adjuvant herb, invigorates the spleen and harmonizes the stomach to prevent the metal and mineral drugs form hurting the stomach. The honey is a dispatcher herb with effects fo tonifying the middle to harmonize the stomach and coordinating all the other ingredients in the formala.