An Shen Bu Xin Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Calm The Spirit
• Subcategory: Nourish the Heart and Calm the Spirit

Dan Shen

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Salvia Root

Usages

• Invigorate blood, break up blood stasis in lower abdomen - dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, palpable masses, lochioschesis, pain due to blood stasis, chest/epigastric pain, soreness in the ribs due to liver qi stagnation w/blood stasis.
• Clear heat, soothe irritability - restlessness, irritability, insomnia due to heat entering the ying level.

This formula has cautions, see details

Nu Zhen Zi

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Privet Fruit

Usages

• Liver and/or kidney yin deficiency - dizziness, floaters, weak knees and back, tinnitus, premature graying of hair.
• Clears deficient heat.
• Improves vision in patients with liver and/or kidney deficiency.

Shu Di Huang

Rehmannia, Chinese Foxglove Root

Usages

• This is the root of Sheng Di Huang (steamed and dried, or soaked in red wine and dried).
• Tonify blood for blood deficiency with dizziness, pallid complexion, palpitations, insomnia, irregular menses, uterine bleeding, post partum bleeding.
• Nourish yin - kidney yin deficiency with nightsweats, xiao ke, steaming bone disorder, nocturnal emissions.

Wu Wei Zi

Schisandra Fruit/Seed

Usages

• Constrain leakage of lung qi, enriches kidney yin - chronic cough and wheezing due to kidney and lung deficiency.
• Tonify the kidneys, bind the essence, stop diarrhea - nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination, daybreak diarrhea.
• Inhibits sweating, generates fluids - thirst with excess sweat, spontaneous sweating, nightsweats, xiao ke.
• Quiet the spirit, calm the heart - irritability, palpitations, insomnia due to blood deficiency or kidney and heart yin injury.

This formula has cautions, see details