Classical antecedent: Suan Zao Ren Tang Ziziphus Decoction.
Indications:
Insomnia, anxiety, mental restlessness, agitation, feeling fidgety, very slight hyperactive behaviour from Deficiency, night-sweating, dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth at night, waking up at night with desire to sip water, palpitations.
Indications in Chinese Medicine:
Pattern: Liver-, Kidney-Yin and Heart-Yin deficiency, Heart Empty Heat, Mind (Shen) and Ethereal Soul (Hun) unsettled.
Action: nourish Liver-, Kidney- and Heart-Yin, clear Heart Empty Heat, calm the Mind, settle the Ethereal Soul.
Tongue: Red without coating or with rootless coating, dry, possibly Heart crack.
Pulse: Floating-Empty or Fine-Rapid.
Ingredients:
Suan Zao Ren Semen Ziziphi spinosae Bai Shao Radix Paeoniae alba Wu Wei Zi Fructus Schisandrae Fu Shen Sclerotium Poriae pararadicis Zhi Mu Radix Anemarrhenae Chuan Xiong Rhizoma Chuanxiong Sheng Di Huang Radix Rehmanniae |
Mai Men Dong Radix Ophiopogonis Yuan Zhi Radix Polygalae Bai Zi Ren Semen Biotae Gou Teng Ramulus Uncariae cum Uncis Ye Jiao Teng Caulis Polygoni multiflori Gan Cao Radix Glycyrrhizae uralensis |
Dosage: 2 tablets x 2 times a day
Bottle: 60 tablets x 500mg concentration ratio of 7:1