An Shen Bu Xin AnShenBuXin Calm the Shen and Supplement the Heart Pills 安神补心丸 shen bu xin calm shen and supplement heart pills

An Shen Bu Xin Wan - Calm the Shen and Supplement the Heart Pills

安神补心丸

Clinical Usage

  • Insomnia and palpitations
  • Anxiety, possible difficulty with concentration
  • Irritibility and restlessness
  • Tinnitus

Clinician Notes

This formula is useful for the situation where the deficiency of the heart yin and blood fails to keep the liver yang grounded, which results in the liver yang rising.  

Formula Combinations

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An Shen Bu Xin Wan is in the "Nourish the Heart and Calm the Spirit" group within the "Calm The Spirit" category.

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Common Formula Ingredients

An Shen Bu Xin Wan is generally comprised of the following 8 ingredients:

Dan Shen
Dan Shen
Salvia Root
  • 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.
Dan Shen is also included in 18 formulas
He Huan Pi
He Huan Pi
Mimosa Tree Bark
  • Calms the spirit, relieves constrained emotions - vexation, depression, insomnia, irritability, poor memory.
  • Invigorates the blood, alleviates pain - pain and swelling due to trauma, abscesses.
  • The flower, He Huan Hua (ye he hua, ye he mi) has similar functions for calming the shen from liver constraint - insomnia, chest oppression, irritability.
He Huan Pi is also included in 1 formula
Nu Zhen Zi
Nu Zhen Zi
Privet Fruit
  • 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.
Nu Zhen Zi is also included in 3 formulas
Shi Chang Pu
Shi Chang Pu
Sweetflag Rhizome
  • Opens the orifices, vaporizes phlegm, quiets the spirit - sensory orifice disorders due to phlegm, deafness, dizziness, poor memory, dulled sensation, seizures.
  • Harmonize the middle warmer, transform turbid damp, abdominal pain.
  • Wind-cold damp - painful obstruction, trauma and sores.
Shi Chang Pu is also included in 4 formulas
Shu Di Huang
Rehmannia, Chinese Foxglove Root
  • 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.
Shu Di Huang is also included in 22 formulas
Tu Si Zi
Chinese Dodder Seeds
  • Tonify kidneys, strengthens yin, secures essence, reserves urine - impotence, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, tinnitus, frequent urination, sore painful back, vaginal discharge.
  • Tonify kidney and liver, improves vision - liver and kidney yin and yang deficiency patterns with dizziness, tinnitus, blurred vision, floaters, etc.
  • Strengthen the spleen and kidneys - resolve diarrhea.
  • Calms the fetus - important herb for habitual and/or threatened miscarriage.
Tu Si Zi is also included in 8 formulas
Wu Wei Zi
Schisandra Fruit/Seed
  • 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.
Wu Wei Zi is also included in 18 formulas
  • Sedates the heart - tremor, palpitations, seizures, childhood convulsions.
  • Clears the liver - blurred vision.
  • Promotes healing, generates flesh - ulcers of the gums or throat.
Zhen Zhu is also included in 5 formulas