Settling the Soul

Classical antecedent: Long Dan Xie Gan Tang (Gentiana Draining the Liver Decoction).

Indications:

Anxiety, insomnia, manic behaviour, staying up at night working, having many projects simultaneously, spending money, excessive excitement, going out a lot, incessant talking or laughing, singing.

Indications in Chinese Medicine:

Pattern: Fire of the Heart and Liver agitating the Mind (Shen) and the Ethereal Soul (Hun), Phlegm misting the Mind.
Actions: drain Fire, open the Mind's orifices, calm the Mind, settle the Ethereal Soul, resolve Phlegm.

Tongue: Red with redder tip and sides, swollen, sticky-yellow coating, central Heart crack with rough-dry-yellow-sticky coating inside it.
Pulse: Slippery, Overflowing, Rapid.

Cautions and contraindications: There are no particular contraindications associated with this remedy. It is obviously a cooling remedy that drain Fire and it is therefore contraindicated if there is no Fire.

Ingredients:

Yuan Zhi (Radix Polygalae)
Shi Chang Pu (Rhizoma Acori tatarinowii)
Huang Qin (Radix Scutellariae)
Long Dan Cao (Radix Gentianae)
Zhu Ye (Folium Phyllostachys nigrae)
Suan Zao Ren (Semen Ziziphi spinosae)
Gua Lou (Fructus Trichosanthis)   
Gou Teng (Ramulus Uncariae cum Uncis)
Lian Xin (Plumula Nelumbinis nuciferae)
Bai Shao (Radix Paeoniae alba)
Zhu Ru (Caulis Bambusae in Taeniam)
Chen Pi (Pericarpium Citri reticulatae)
Gan Cao (Radix Glycyrrhizae uralensis)

Dosage: 2 tablets x 2 times a day

Bottle: 60 tablets x 500mg concentration ratio of 7:1