Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan, refilled
Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan 6 Pack
6 bottles · 360 tablets · about 60 days at 6 a day
Sixty days of the Heavenly Emperor's Heart pill. Six bottles for the tired-but-wired pattern herbalists put down to Heart and Kidney Yin running low, which in their view takes weeks of steady topping up, not a few nights. Why take it over weeks
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- 5:1 strength
- DaoDi herbs
- Vegan & gluten-free
- GMP certified
- Free UK delivery £40+
Putting water back in the pan
Herbalists explained Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan with a saucepan. Months of late nights boil the water off, so the flame underneath (the Heart) runs hot and the mind won't settle. You can't refill a pan that's been boiling dry for a year in an evening, and practitioners didn't pretend you could. Yin formulas like this one were the slow, cooling, moistening sort, and they'd usually have someone on them for a couple of months while asking about sleep, dry mouth, those warm evenings and the mouth ulcers that come and go.
There's a story, of course. A monk works himself into the ground and the recipe turns up in a dream. Believe it or don't! Herbalists took a very down-to-earth lesson from it anyway, which is that you take the formula and you rest too, not one in place of the other. Two months of tablets with no change to your hours would have struck them as missing the point rather badly.
10 days a bottle, about 60 days in all
Sixty days of topping up
Bottles 1–2
Days 1 to 20
Three tablets morning and evening. Pay attention to the evening heat and dry mouth as well as sleep. Herbalists watched all of it, not just bedtime.
Bottles 3–4
Days 21 to 40
The middle stretch. If you can, claw back an earlier night or two each week. The whole theory hinges on not boiling the pan dry again.
Bottles 5–6
Days 41 to 60
Review where you've got to. Palpitations, persistent mouth ulcers or months of poor sleep deserve a proper look from your GP, whatever else you're taking.
On warfarin or any blood thinner? Give this one a miss, there's dong quai and red sage in it. Ever had liver problems? Skip it too, because of the he shou wu. Yellowish skin, dark wee or a sore tummy at any point over the two months, and you stop and get checked, simple as. Pregnant or breastfeeding, only with your GP's okay. Anything else you take, have a word with your GP or pharmacist first, honestly.
Choosing between them
Close relatives for hot, dry, sleepless nights
Half Yin tonic, half settler, that's this one. These two each borrow one half of the idea, if you see what we mean.
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Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
Thirteen herbs, aimed at Heart and Kidney Yin. You know the type: wide awake at 2am, mouth like sandpaper, getting warm every evening for no reason.
Kidney Yin base
Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
The house formula for Kidney Yin. Herbalists chose it for warm palms and soles, a tired back and gradual drying with age, with less focus on the restless mind.
See Liu Wei Di Huang WanHot and wound up
Te Xiao An Mian Pian
A modern patent formula with silk tree bark and night-joining vine, picked when the restless Shen came with irritability rather than dryness and depletion.
See Te Xiao An Mian PianWhat's in the box
Six bottles of Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
Every bottle is the same: 60 tablets of the formula on our single bottle page, so 6 a day gives you 10 days a bottle.
| Di Huang Rehmannia glutinosa | 809mg |
| Tian Men Dong Asparagus cochinchinensis | 370mg |
| Mai Dong Ophiopogon japonicus | 370mg |
| Dang Gui Angelica sinensis | 370mg |
| He Shou Wu Reynoutria multiflora | 370mg |
| He Huan Pi Albizia julibrissin | 370mg |
| Yuan Zhi Polygala tenuifolia | 101mg |
| Fu Ling Wolfiporia hoelen | 101mg |
| Wu Wei Zi Schisandra chinensis | 101mg |
| Xuan Shen Scrophularia ningpoensis | 101mg |
| Dan Shen Salvia miltiorrhiza | 101mg |
| Ren Shen Panax ginseng | 101mg |
| Jie Geng Platycodon grandiflorus | 101mg |
Also contains: Cassava starch, Hypromellose, Magnesium stearate, Polyethylene glycol, Talc.
Living with six bottles
The practical bits
Storing them
Somewhere cool and dry, out of direct sun. Leave the bottles you're not using sealed until you need them.
Best before
Every bottle carries its own best-before date on the label, so check the one you open next.
Delivery
Order before 3pm on a weekday and it goes out the same day from Essex. UK delivery is free on orders over £40.
Changed your mind?
Sealed, unopened bottles can be returned within 14 days of delivery. The details are in our refund policy.
Verified Loox reviews
What people say about Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
My Chinese therapist recommended and I have been taken for 4 mouths, I feel the difference, sleeping better and less anxious. The pills are each to swallow as well, and well-packaged.
Carina P., verified buyerTian Wang Bu Xin Dan: your questions
Does Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan come up around menopause and night sweats?
Yes, quite a bit. Low Yin, the old way, meant feeling hot in the evenings, dry and sleeping in fits and starts, which a lot of women going through the menopause will recognise, and herbalists did historically turn to Yin formulas then. It's a food supplement, though, not a menopause treatment. Night sweats, a pounding heart or poor sleep that's new or won't shift? That's your GP.
So who was it really meant for?
Bookish types, mainly. Scholars, students, people grafting long hours with their heads, which fits that worn-out monk nicely. Herbalists also thought of it for people in later life, when Yin is said to run lower naturally. It wasn't seen as a men's or women's formula particularly. The pattern mattered more than who you were.
Is it better taken in a particular season?
Some herbalists favoured cooling, moistening Yin formulas in late summer and autumn, when dryness is said to be at its peak, or after a hot, sleepless summer. Central heating in winter dries people out too, mind you. If we're honest, most folk start the week they twig what's going on, and the calendar doesn't come into it.
What if I took Liu Wei Di Huang Wan as well?
Not without advice. They've both got rehmannia at the heart of them, both Yin formulas, so the two together is a lot of rich, gloopy, moistening stuff, and a delicate stomach won't thank you for it. A proper herbalist might put you on one and then the other later on. Or they'd just choose the better fit. Doubling up yourself isn't something we'd suggest.
Is the 6-pack the same Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan?
Yes, the same thirteen-herb recipe without cinnabar, in six bottles of 60 tablets. Three in the morning, three at night, and a bottle does you ten days. Six of them? Sixty days. Only the quantity changes, which simply saves you reordering every ten days.
Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan, six bottles at once
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