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    "slug": "jiao-tai-wan",
    "names": {
        "pinyin": "Jiao Tai Wan",
        "chinese": "交泰丸",
        "english": "Grand Communication Pill",
        "alternate": [
            "Coptis and Cinnamon Pill"
        ]
    },
    "category": "calm-spirit",
    "source": {
        "text": "Han Shi Yi Tong (Han's Comprehensive Medicine)",
        "author": "Han Mao",
        "dynasty": "Ming",
        "year": "1522"
    },
    "summary": "Two herbs, ten parts coptis to one part cinnamon, to make the Heart and Kidney meet again. For insomnia with a hot restless mind above and a cold or empty Kidney below: palpitations, irritability, a dry mouth, and a back or feet that run cold. The smallest formula in the sleep family.",
    "picture": "The Heart is fire and should sink; the Kidney is water and should rise. Coptis cools the fire so it can descend. The pinch of cinnamon warms the water so it can climb. When they meet, you sleep.",
    "patterns": [
        {
            "slug": "heart-and-kidney-not-communicating",
            "role": "minimal",
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            }
        },
        {
            "slug": "heart-fire",
            "role": "with a cold Kidney",
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        }
    ],
    "indications": [
        "Insomnia with a hot, restless mind",
        "Palpitations and irritability at night",
        "Dry mouth with cold feet",
        "Mouth ulcers in a person with a cold lower body",
        "Waking in the early hours, hot above and cold below"
    ],
    "signs": {
        "tongue": "Red tip on a pale body, or red with little coat.",
        "pulse": "Rapid at the wrist, weak at the rear."
    },
    "ingredients": [
        {
            "pinyin": "Huang Lian",
            "grams": "6",
            "role": "chief",
            "job": "Coptis cools the Heart fire so it can sink.",
            "herb_slug": "rhizome-of-chinese-goldthread-2",
            "english": "Rhizome of Chinese Goldthread",
            "chinese": "黄连",
            "latin": "Rhizoma Coptidis",
            "_links": {
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                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/herb/rhizome-of-chinese-goldthread-2"
            }
        },
        {
            "pinyin": "Rou Gui",
            "grams": "1",
            "role": "deputy",
            "job": "Cinnamon bark, a tiny dose, warms the Kidney so the water can rise and leads the fire home.",
            "herb_slug": "cassia-bark",
            "english": "Cassia Bark",
            "chinese": "肉桂",
            "latin": "Cortex Cinnamomi",
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            }
        }
    ],
    "actions": [
        "Clears Heart fire and warms Kidney yang",
        "Restores the communication between Heart and Kidney"
    ],
    "how_it_works": "The ratio is the medicine. Enough coptis to cool a burning Heart, and just enough cinnamon to remind the fire where it lives. It is often added to a larger formula rather than taken alone, and it works fast when the picture is right: hot head, cold feet, no sleep.",
    "modifications": [
        {
            "for": "Deeper yin deficiency",
            "add": [
                "Sheng Di Huang",
                "Mai Dong"
            ],
            "note": "Or combine with Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan."
        },
        {
            "for": "Palpitations that frighten",
            "add": [
                "Long Gu",
                "Mu Li"
            ],
            "note": "Dragon bone and oyster shell anchor."
        }
    ],
    "cautions": [
        "Coptis is bitter and cold; short courses only.",
        "Not for insomnia from a pale, tired, blood-deficient picture; that is Gui Pi Tang.",
        "Pregnancy: use only under a qualified practitioner."
    ],
    "forms": [
        "teapills",
        "granules",
        "decoction"
    ],
    "typical_dose": {
        "teapills": "As the label directs, with the last dose an hour before bed",
        "course": "One to three weeks."
    },
    "cousins": [
        {
            "slug": "tian-wang-bu-xin-dan",
            "difference": "The full thirteen-herb formula for the same disconnection, with the yin tonics built in."
        },
        {
            "slug": "zhi-bai-di-huang-wan",
            "difference": "Rebuilds the Kidney yin underneath; often taken alongside."
        }
    ],
    "commerce": {
        "store": "supplementsapothecary.com",
        "store_name": "Supplements Apothecary",
        "store_slug": "jiao-tai-wan",
        "store_url": "https://www.supplementsapothecary.com/supplement/jiao-tai-wan",
        "status": "planned",
        "label_check": "The box reads Jiao Tai Wan with the characters 交泰丸. Two ingredients: Coptis and Cinnamon bark, with far more coptis."
    },
    "conditions": [
        "insomnia",
        "palpitations",
        "mouth-sores",
        "anxiety"
    ],
    "sources": [
        {
            "title": "Bensky, Scheid, Ellis and Barolet, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas and Strategies, 2nd edition",
            "note": "Composition, actions, and indications."
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "status": "published",
        "last_updated": "2026-10-12",
        "reviewed_by": null
    },
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}