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Herb Board Exam Formulas

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Má huáng tāng

Ephedra decoction

With composition
For tai yang cold attack

No sweating, aversion to cold
Stronger patients only

Induce sweating
Disperse lung

Ma huang
Gui zhi
Xing ren
Zhi gan cao

Side effects:
Ma huang: palpitations, hypertension, stroke, arrhythmia, anxiety, irritability, insomnia (cook first and discard foam)
Xing ren: depresses breathing
Guì zhī tāng

Cinnamon twig decoction

With composition
For taiyang wind attack

Deficiency wind-cold, excessive sweating, aversion to wind

Relieve muscles and exterior
Harmonize ying and wei qi

Gui zhi (9 g)
Shao yao (9 g)
Sheng jiang
Da zao
Zhi gan cao

Can be used for some internal diseases like some cases of menopause (less heat, lots of sweating)
Xiǎo qīng lóng tāng

Minor blue green dragon
Modified from ma huang tang

Wind cold attack with internal fluid retention
Chill, fever, no sweating
Abundant thin phlegm
Difficulty in lying

Bronchial asthma
Chronic bronchitis
COPD
Xiāng sū sǎn

Cyperus and perilla leaf powder
Wind attack with qi stagnation

Chill and fever
No sweating
Cold or flu while pregnant
Chuān xīong chá tiáo sǎn

Tea-blended ligustrum powder

With composition
Headache from exterior wind
Any kind of headache

Chuan xiong (shaoyang, jueyin)
Bai zhi (yangming)
Qiang huo (taiyang)
Xi xin (shaoyin)
Jing jie
Fang feng
Zhi gan cao
Bo he
Tea
Cāng ér zǐ sǎn

With ingredients
Expel wind
Open nose

For nasal discharge, forehead ache due to wind

Xin yi hua
Cang er zi
Bai zhi
Bo he

Add bai xian pi for itching
Add fang feng for wind
Gé gēn tāng

Kudzu decoction
Taiyang wind cold with stiff neck and upper back

Release exterior and muscle
Generate fluids

Has gui zhi tang and ma huang
Sāng jú yǐn

Mulberry and crysanthemum decoction

With composition
Early superficial stage of warm febrile disease

Cough, mild fever, thirst

Sang ye
Ju hua
Xing ren
Lian qiao
Bo he
Jie geng
Lu gen
Gan cao
Yín qiáo sǎn

Honeysuckle and forsythia powder

With composition
Beginning of warm diseases

Expel evil by pungent cool herbs
Clear heat and toxin

Fever, no sweat, headache, thirst, cough, sore throat

Jin yin hua
Lian qiao
Bo he
Niu bang zi
Jing jie
Dan dou chi
Dan zhu ye
Jie geng
Lu gen
Gan cao
Chái gé jiě jī tāng

Bupleurum and pueraria decoction for relieving muscles
Exterior cold that is transforming into heat
Severe Flu

Relieve muscles and clear heat

Fever, no sweat, headache, body (calf) ache
Má xìng shí gān tāng

Ephedra, apricot, licorice and gypsum decoction

With composition
Wind attack with heat in lung -> wheezing

Fever, cough, dyspnea, flaring nares
Strong formula for heat

Acute bronchitis, pneumonia

Ma huang
Xing ren
Gan cao
Shi gao (chief)

Ma huang:Shi gao
1:5 with sweating, clear more heat
1:3 without sweating
Shēng má gé gēn tāng

Cimicufuga and pueraria decoction
Relieve muscles, promote eruptions

Early measles (absent rashes, or incomplete eruption)
Fever and headache

Sheng ma main herb to promote rashes
Rén shēn bài dú sǎn

Ginseng antipathogenic powder
Wind cold damp attack with qi deficiency

Severe chill, high fever
Headache, stiff neck
Aches
No sweat
Stuffy nose, cough

Dispel wind damp
Relieve exterior by sweating
Jiā jiǎn wēi ruí tāng

Modified polygonatum odoratum decoction

With composition
For exterior wind heat with yin def

Nourish yin, clear heat
Mildly induce sweating, release exterior

Fever, slight chills
No sweating
Headache
Cough, hard to expectorate sputum
Thirst, irritability, peeled tongue

Yu zhu
Cong bai
Dan dou chi
Jie geng
Bo he
Bai wei
Zhi gan cao
Da zao
Bái hǔ tāng

White tiger decoction

With composition
Exuberant heat at qi stage
Yang ming channel syndrome

Shi gao 30 g
Zhi mu
Zhi gan cao
Geng mi (rice)
Zhú yè shí gāo tāng

Lophaterum and gypsum decoction
From bai hu tang

Qi level heat lingering in lung and stomach

Clear heat, promote body fluid
Reinforce qi, harmonize stomach

Fever, profuse sweating
Chest distress
Nausea, vomiting
Dry mouth with desire to drink
Insomnia
Shortness of breath
Feeble, Rapid pulse
Red tongue, less coating
Gé gēn qín lián tāng

Kudzu, coptis and scutellaria decoction

With ingredients
For incompletely resolved exterior with heat in interior

Release exterior, clear heat

Fever with foul diarrhea, acute enteritis
Burning in anus
Irritable fever sensation in chest and epigastrium
Dry mouth and thirst
Yellow coat
Rapid pulse
Not so much blood and mucus

Food poisoning, acute enteritis

Ge gen 15 g
Huang qin
Huang lian
Zhi gan cao
Qīng yíng tāng

Clear the nutritive level decoction
Clear heat in nutritive level
Nourish yin, activate blood

Fever, worse at night
Restless, irritable, delirium
Mild papules

Meningitis
Xī jiǎo dì huáng tāng

Rhinoceros horn and rehmannia decoction

With ingredients
Blood level heat

Cool blood, nourish yin
Dispel blood stasis, stop bleeding

Xi jiao 3 g (Shui niu jiao 30 g)
Sheng di huang
Shao yao
Mu dan pi
Huáng lián jiě dú tāng

Coptis detoxicating decoction

With ingredients
Purging fire and expelling toxin from 3 jiaos

Mainly qi level
Mainly upper and middle jiao

High fever, bleeding, macule, dysentery, jaundice, carbuncle

Hepatitis A, B
Shingles, impetigo, erysipelas

Huang lian
Huang qin
Huang bai
Zhi zi
Xiè xīn tāng

Heart purging decoction

With ingredients
Also san huang xie xin tang

Damp heat with interior constipation

Purge fire and toxin from heart and stomach, dry dampness

Ulcers on tongue
Bleeding in GI tract

Da huang
Huang lian
Huang qin
Pǔ jì xiāo dú yǐn

Universal benefit detoxicating decoction
Epidemic toxin with wind-heat and damp phlegm

Disperse wind evil
Clear heat and poison

Mumps, or other similar swelling

GB channel obstruction near ear.
Oral or topical (mix with cactus juice)
Qīng wēn bài dú yǐn

Clear epidemics and overcome toxin decoction
Bai hu tang
+ Qing ying tang
+ Huang lian jie du tang

Severe fire in qi and blood level

Clear heat and poison
Cool blood, preserve yin

High fever. Mania. Delirium. Stiff neck
Wǔ wèi xiāo dú yǐn

Five ingredient decoction to eliminate toxin

With ingredients
Boils and carbuncles due to heat

Clear heat, relieve toxicity
Cool blood, reduce swelling

Mild, better for early stage

Jin yin hua
Pu gong ying
Zi hua di ding
Ye ju hua
Zi bei tian kui
Wěi jīng tāng

Reed decoction

With ingredients
Lung abscess d/t heat toxin obstructing lung

Cough with foul smelling sputum

Bronchiectasis, pus in lung, smells like rotten meat

Lu gen
Yi yi ren
Dong gua ren
Tao ren
Xiè bái sǎn

Purging white powder

With ingredients
Smoldering fire d/t accumulation of heat in lung

Asthma, cough
Skin hot to touch, but temperature not very high
Difficult to expectorate sputum
Worse in afternoon

Bronchitis, etc.

Sang bai pi
Di gu pi
Gan cao
Geng mi
Xiè huáng sǎn

Purging the yellow powder

With ingredients
For damp heat in spleen

Mouth ulcers, corner of lips
Odor in mouth
Tongue thrush in children

Shi gao
Zhi zi
Fang feng
Huo xiang
Gan cao

Severe odor, add pei lan
Qīng wèi sǎn

Clearing stomach powder

With ingredients
For heat in stomach

Toothache extending into head
Bleeding and sores of gum
Painful, swollen gum, tongue, lips, jaw

Huang lian
Sheng ma (guide to gums)
Dang gui
Sheng di huang
Mu dan pi

Add bai zhi for forehead headache
Add da huang for constipation
Add xie huang san if heat in spleen/stomach
Yù nǔ jiān

Jade woman decoction

With ingredients
From bai hu tang

For heat in stomach with yin deficiency

Clear heat, cool blood, nourish yin

Toothache, bleeding gum d/t yin def
Middle xiao ke (diabetes - overeating)

Shi gao
Zhi mu
Shu di huang
Mai men dong
(Huai) Niu xi
Dǎo chì sǎn

Guide out the red powder

With ingredients
Excess heat in heart and small intestine

Clear heat
Promote urination

Irritable, Feverish sensation of chest, oral ulcers
Bleeding, dark scanty urine. Acute cloudy lin

Sheng di huang
Dan zhu ye
Mu tong
Gan cao
Lóng dǎn xiè gān tāng

Gentian liver purging decoction

With ingredients
Flaring up of excessive liver/gallbladder fire

Purge fire
Clear damp heat from three jiaos

Headache with conjunctivitis, glaucoma, ear infection, shingles
Hypertension
Hypochondriac pain
Itching and swelling of vulva, UTI, STD
Impotence

Long dan cao
Chai Hu
Huang qin
Zhi zi
Ze xie
Che qian zi
Mu tong
Dang gui
Sheng di huang
Gan cao
Zuǒ jīn wán

Left metal pill

With ingredients
For liver and stomach disharmony from heat in liver

Clear liver heat
Direct rebellious qi down (vomiting)
Liver qi stagnation turns to heat

Huang lian
Wu zhu yu

6:1 but can reduce huang lian if heat not too bad

Can add gan jiang if cold more severe.
Bái tóu wēng tāng

Pulsatilla decoction
Dysentery from heat toxin searing stomach/intestines

Abdominal pain, tenesmus, burning sensation around anus
Diarrhea with more blood, reddish (less mucus, bacterial)

More for heat than ge gen lian qin tang, not for exterior
Qīng hào biē jiǎ tāng

Sweet wormwood and turtle shell decoction

With optional ingredients
For heat smoldering in the yin phase (damaged yin)

Nourish yin, clear heat

Tuberculosis
Late stage febrile disease.
Fever at night
Absence of sweat after fever disappears in morning.
Hidden evil in yin level

Qing hao
Bie jia
Sheng di huang
Mu dan pi
Zhi mu
Qīng gǔ sǎn

Cool the bones powder
For liver and kidney deficiency leading to steaming bone disorder

Tidal fever, night sweat,
heat in bones

Lowers temperature
Liù yī sǎn

Six to one powder

With ingredients
Summer heat with dampness in interior

Beginning of summer heat
Clear damp heat through urine

Hua shi (6:1) wrapped
Gan cao

+ qing dai for heat in liv/gb (bi yu san)
+ bai hu tang for heat in qi level
+ ba zheng san for damp heat in low jiao (frequent urine)
Dà chéng qì tāng

Major order the qi decoction

With ingredients
Yang ming fu organ disorder

Constipation, fever

Hardness, fullness, dryness, excess
Flatulence

Da huang
Mang xiao
Hou po
Zhi shi
Xiǎo chéng qì tāng

Minor order the qi decoction

With ingredients
Milder yang ming fu organ disorder

Fever, Constipation, No masses.
Patient can tolerate external pressure
Remove mang xiao
Also for some dysentery

Da huang
Hou po
Zhi shi
Tiáo wèi chéng qì tāng

Stomach regulating and order qi decoction

With ingredients
Milder yang ming fu organ disorder

No fullness. Remove hou po, zhi shi

Da huang
Mang xiao
Zhi gan cao
Liáng gé sǎn

Cool the diaphragm powder
From Tiao wei cheng qi tang

Exterior heat in lung + yangming fu syndrome

Drain fire and unblock bowel
Clear upper jiao
Drain middle jiao

With sores in tongue, mouth, throat
Má zǐ rén wán

Hemp seed pills
From xiao cheng qi tang

For dry heat in GI tract
Excess with yin deficiency

Moisten intestines and lungs
Drain heat
Move qi
Unblock bowels

For constipation, with dry stool
For dry cough
With frequent urination
Jì chuān jiān

Benefit the river decoction
Constipation due to kidney yang deficiency

Warm kidney
Moisten intestine
Unblock bowels

With clear, profuse urine
Low back pain, cold lower back

rou cong rong
Xiǎo chái hú tāng

Minor bupleurum decoction

With ingredients
#1 For shaoyang syndrome

History of exterior syndrome

Chai hu
Huang qin
Ren shen
Ban xia
Sheng jiang
Zhi gan cao
Da zao

Severe heat add
Shi gao
Zhi mu
Zhi zi
Xia ku cao
Dà chái hú tāng

Major bupleurum decoction
From xiao chai hu tang

Shaoyang syndrome and Yangming fu syndrome

Alternating chills and fever with constipation
Burning diarrhea or no bowel movement

Earlier in disease
Mild pancreatitis, abdomen infections
Sì nì sǎn

Frigid extremities powder

With ingredients
Rebellious liver qi disturbing stomach

Stress, panic attack

Cold fingers and toes, with irritability
Abdominal pain or diarrhea
Red tongue, yellow coating

Chronic hepatitis
Ascariasis
Pancreatitis
Intercostal neuralgia

Chai hu
Shao yao
Zhi shi (more descend qi)
Zhi gan cao
Chái hú shū gān sǎn

Bupleurum powder to spread the liver

With Ingredients
Modified from Si Ni San

Soothe liver, Activate qi
Harmonize blood
Pain due to qi stagnation, esp period pain

Chai hu
Shao yao
Zhi gan cao
Chen pi
Chuan xiong
Xiang fu
Zhe ke (more regulate qi)
Xiāo yáo sǎn

Free and easy powder

With ingredients
Liver qi stagnation with spleen and blood deficiency

Chronic hepatitis, gastritis
Neurosis, stress
Irregular menstruation

Chai hu
Dang gui
Shao yao
Bai zhu
Fu ling
Zhi gan cao
Wei jiang (baked)
Bo he
Tòng xiè yào fāng

Important formula for painful diarrhea

With ingredients
Diarrhea due to liver qi stagnation

Ulcerative colitis, IBS

Spread liver qi and tonify spleen

Chao bai zhu
Chao bai shao
Chao chen pi
Fang feng
Bàn xià xiè xīn tāng

Pinellia decoction to drain the epigastrium

With ingredients
Complex heat and cold in the middle jiao
Harmonizing

Epigastric focal distention
Clumping syndrome in stomach

Gastritis (chronic/acute), dyspepsia
Not so much for pain
Poor appetite
Dry heaves
Borborygmus with diarrhea
Yellow greasy coating

Ban xia
Gan jiang
Huang qin
Huang lian
Ren shen
Da zao
Zhi gan cao
Shēng jiāng xiè xīn tāng

Fresh ginger decoction to drain the epigastrium
From ban xia xie xin tang

For water and heat evil
Stuffiness and hardness in epigastrium
Burping with fetid odor
Thundering borborygmus
Diarrhea

Reduce gan jiang

Add sheng jiang to harmonize stomach and dispose of water retention, stop vomiting
Gān cǎo xiè xīn tāng

Licorice decoction to drain the epigastrium
From ban xia xie xin tang

Increase gan cao

Reinforce stomach qi to relieve stuffiness and stop vomiting
qi deficiency

Diarrhea with undigested food
After erroneous purgation damages stomach qi
Xìng sū sǎn

Apricot kernel and perilla leaf powder
Cool dryness in the exterior

Slight headache
Aversion to cold
Chills without sweating
Cough with watery sputum
Stuffy nose
Dry throat, dry white coating
Sāng xìng tāng

Mulberry leaf and apricot kernel decoction
Exogenous attack of warm dryness

Slight fever
Cough without sputum
Dry throat with thirst

Weaker than qing zao jiu fei tang
Qīng zào jiù fèi tāng

Clear dryness and rescue lung decoction
Warm dryness attacking lungs

Exterior and interior dryness, with some heat

Headache, fever
Hacking cough, whooping cough
Wheezing
Dry, parched throat
Distending pain of chest and hypochondrium

Stronger than sang xing tang
Use if missed the early stages of disease, or disease mistaken for wind heat
Bǎi hé gù jīn tāng

Lily metal consolidating formula
Lung kidney yin deficiency with phlegm

Chronic cough

Cough with bloody sputum
Dry sore throat
Feverish palms and soles
Hectic fever with night sweats
Mài mén dōng tāng

Ophiogon decoction

With ingredients
Lung or stomach yin deficiency (weakness)

Cough with sticky sputum
Or
Vomiting and thirst with dry throat. Dry heaves

Mai men dong
Ban xia
Ren shen
Gan cao
Geng mi
Da zao
Wǔ líng sǎn

Five ingredient powder with poria

With ingredients
Taiyang fu organ disease

Water/dampness accumulation with exterior evil

Promotes urination to drain damp
Strengthens/warms spleen qi

Fever, headache
Thirst with Vomiting immediately after drinking
Edema, urinary difficulty, scant urine
Watery diarrhea
Throbbing pulsation below umbilicus

Nephritis, acute gastroenteritis
Retention of urine (Lin syndrome)

Ze xie (chief, despite not being in name)
Fu ling
Zhu ling
Bai zhu
Gui zhi
Zhū líng tāng

Polyporus decoction

With ingredients
Clumping of water and heat with yin deficiency

Water accumulation and heat
Impairment of yin-fluid
Problems urinating
Fever and thirst with desire to drink (no vomiting after drinking)

Promotes diuresis
Clears heat
Nourishes yin

Ze xie
Fu ling
Zhu ling
Hua shi
E jiao
Wǔ pí sǎn

Five peel powder
Skin edema
Just under the skin

Difficult breathing, urinating

Resolve damp, reduce edema
Regulate qi, strengthen spleen
Píng wèi sǎn

Calm the stomach powder

With ingredients
Damp cold blocking the spleen

After cold, greasy food. Acute

Distention and fullness
Heavy sensation in body
No appetite, change of taste
Increased desire to sleep

Cang zhu (chief)
Hou po
Chen pi
Zhi gan cao
Sheng jiang
Da zao

Can use with xiao chai hu tang for Shaoyang (chai ping tang)

Caution injury to yin and blood. Short term only

Caution yin and blood injury
Caution in pregnancy
Huò xiāng zhèng qì sǎn

Agastache powder to rectify qi
External wind cold with internal turbid dampness

Acute gastroenteritis with wind damp cold

Fever and chills, headache
Fullness in the chest
Pain in abdomen
Nausea, vomiting, borborygmus
Diarrhea, loose, watery
Loss of taste
Bèi xiè fēn qīng yǐn

Dioscorea hypoglauca decoction to separate the clear
Cold from lower jiao deficiency

Frequent urination, with cloudy, dense, milky or greasy urine

Chyluria (chyle, fatty acids)
Chronic prostatitis
Zhēn wǔ tāng

True warrior decoction

With ingredients
Kidney yang deficiency with internal water retention
Heart deficiency
Shaoyin

Abdominal pain aggravated by cold
Urinary difficulty
Deep aching and heaviness in extremities

Warm yang, more than wu ling san
Promote urination

Yin edema
Pain, muscle spasms

Fu zi
Bai zhu
Fu ling
Bai shao
Sheng jiang
Shí pí yǐn

Bolster the spleen decoction
Yin edema due to spleen and kidney yang deficiency

Edema below waist
Cold extremities
Chest and abdomen fullness and distention
Heavy sensation in body
No thirst, scanty urine

Cirrhosis
Dú huó jì shēng tāng

Angelica puberscens and sangjishen decoction
Painful obstruction with liver/kidney yang/qi deficiency

Heavy painful sensation at fixed locations on lower back and lower extremities

Expel wind damp cold
Disperse painful obstruction

Chronic arthritis, lumbago or sciatica
Older patients

Has 4 ladies and 3 gentlemen (no bai zhu)
Qiāng huó shèng shī tāng

Notopterygium decoction to overcome dampness
Wind damp in exterior and muscle layer

More for pain

Heavy and painful head or back
Generalized sensation of heaviness
Difficulty in rotating or bending trunk
Mild fever, chills

C.I. wind heat or with sweating
Yīn chén hāo tāng

Artemisia yinchenhao decoction

With ingredients
Damp-heat jaundice

Heat > damp

Whole body jaundice (yang) eyes and urine
Color resembling tangerine
Urinary difficulty, thirst

Acute hepatitis, cholelithasis

Yin chen hao
Zhi zi
Da huang

If cold, remove da huang, add wu ling san (yin chen wu ling san)
Èr miāo sǎn

Two marvel powder

With ingredients
Damp heat in lower jiao

Pain in low back and extremities
Weakness or atrophy of low extremities
Red, hot, swollen, painful feet and knees
Thick, yellow, foul vaginal discharge

Rheumatic fever, local infections in lower body, gout

Huang bai
Cang zhu
Bā zhèng sǎn

Eight herb powder for rectification
Stranguria
Damp heat in lower jiao

Hot, damp heat or bloody lin syndrome

mu tong
Sháo yào tāng

Peony decoction
Dysentery due to damp heat lodged in intestines

Diarrhea with pus and blood

Bacillary dysentery
Acute enteritis
Amoebic dysentery (damp heat)
Yùe jū wán

Stagnation relieving pill
Stagnation of qi, blood, phlegm, fire, damp and food

Stuffy chest
Distention and pain in abdomen

Functional digestive disorders
Bàn xià hòu pò tāng

Pinellia and magnolia decoction

With ingredients
Plum pit qi
Qi and phlegm stagnation

Stifling sensation in chest and hypochondria
Can use for benign mass (+xiao lou wan)

Ban xia
Hou po
Fu ling
Su ye
Sheng jiang
Nǔan gān jiān

Warm the liver decoction
Hernia due to cold accumulation causing liver/kidney deficiency and qi stagnation

Pain in lower abdomen
Pale tender tongue
Tiān tái wū yào sǎn

Top quality lindera powder
Hernia pain due to qi stagnation
Liāng fù wǎn

Galangal and cyperus pill

With ingredients
Stomach qi stagnation due to cold

Epigastric pain that likes warmth
Stifling sensation in chest
Hypochondriac pain
Painful menstruation

Gao liang jiang
Xiang fu
Jīn líng zǐ sǎn

Melia toosendan powder

With ingredients
Pain due to liver qi stagnation and blood stasis

Epigastric, hypochondriac or hernia pain
Menstrual pain

Chuan lian zi (liver toxic)
Yan hu suo
Sū zǐ jiàng qì tāng

Perilla fruit decoction for directing qi downward
Cough and asthma due upper excess (cold-phlegm) and lower deficiency (kidney)

Cough, wheezing
Watery copious sputum
Stifling sensation in chest and diaphragm
Hard to inhale
Dìng chuăn tāng

Arrest wheezing decoction
Wheezing caused by exterior wind-cold with phlegm heat smoldering in the interior

Cough and wheezing
Copious thick yellow sputum
Xúan fù dài zhě shí tāng

Inula and red ochre decoction
Turbid phlegm obstructing interior causing stomach deficiency cold

Epigastric retention and rigidity
Frequent belching
Vomiting
Salivation
Jú pí zhú rú tāng

Tangerine peel and bamboo shaving decoction

Ingredients
Rebellious qi due to stomach deficiency with heat

Hiccough
Nausea
Dry heaves

Vomiting during pregnancy

Ju pi (chen pi)
Zhu ru
Ren shen
Sheng jiang
Da zao
Gan cao
Dīng xiāng shì dì tāng

Clove and persimmon calyx decoction
Hiccough due to stomach deficient cold
Táo hé chéng qì tāng (with composition)

Peach pit decoction to order qi
Blood stasis and heat in low burner
Acute low abdomen pain
Appendicitis, pancreatitis, constipation
Tai yang blood stasis syndrome

Tao ren
Da huang
Gui zhi
Mang xiao
Zhi gan cao
Xuè fǔ zhú yū tāng

Drive out blood stasis from mansion of blood
Blood stasis in chest and constrained liver qi
More for pain
Period issues
Gé xià zhú yū tāng

Drive out blood stasis below diaphragm
Blood stasis and liver qi stagnation
More for masses
Shào fū zhú yū tāng

Drive out blood stasis in lower abdomen
Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis
Warm menses, alleviate pain *
Masses
Shēn tōng zhú yū tāng

Drive out blood stasis from painful body
Invigorate blood, qi
Chronic pain anywhere

Short term only
Shī xiào sǎn (with composition)

Sudden smile powder
Blood stasis in lower abdomen
Period pain

Wu ling zhi
Pu huang
Dān shēn yǐn (with composition)

Salvia decoction
Blood stasis and qi stagnation in middle burner
(Stomach and heart)

Dan shen
Tan xiang
Sha ren

Uterine fibroids due to blood stasis
Bǔ yáng huán wǔ tāng (with composition)

Tonify yang to restore five decoction
Tonify qi, invigorate blood, unblock channels

Wind stroke (d/t qi, blood problems)

Huang qi 5x
Dang gui
Chuan xiong
Chi shao
Tao ren
Hong hua
Di long
Guì zhī fú líng wán (with composition)

Cinnamon twig and poria pill
#1 for blood stasis in womb

Invigorate blood, transform blood stasis
Fixed abdominal masses

Gui zhi (Chief)
Fu ling (Chief)
Shao yao (Bai shao)
Mu dan pi
Tao ren

Gui zhi and shao yao in equal parts, 9 g each
Shēng huà tāng (with composition)

Generation and transformation decoction
Blood stasis in womb postpartum due to cold entering abdomen

Invigorate blood, transform and dispel blood stasis
Warm menses, alleviate pain

Retention of lochia, deficiency after labor

Dang gui
Chuan xiong
Tao ren
Pao jiang (quick fried ginger)
Zhi gan cao
Wēn jīng tāng

Warm the menses decoction
Cold from deficiency of ren and chong, with blood stasis

Warm menses, dispel cold
Nourish blood, dispel blood stasis

Mild persistent uterine bleeding
Pain, cold in low abdomen
Fù yuán huó xuè tāng

Revive health by invigorating blood decoction
Blood stasis and qi stagnation due to trauma
(Excruciating pain, in chest and hypochondria)

Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis
Spread liver qi, unblock channels
Shí huī sǎn

Ten partially charred substances
Cools blood, stops bleeding

Liver fire attacking stomach
Vomiting of blood, acute
Huái huā sǎn

Sophora Japonica Flower Powder
Intestinal wind from wind-heat or damp-heat toxin

Cool intestines, stop bleeding
Disperse wind, promote movement of qi

Hemorrhoids, colitis, Crohn's disease
Xiǎo jì yǐn zǐ

Cephalanoplos decoction
Aggregation of static heat in low burner

Cool blood, stop bleeding
Promote urination, unblock lin syndrome

Bloody painful urinary dysfunction
Jiāo ài tāng (with composition)

Ass-hide gelatin and mugwort decoction
Injured and deficient Ren and Chong vessels

Nourish blood, stop bleeding
Regulate menstruation
Calm fetus

Abnormal pain with uterine bleeding
Excessive menstruation
Spotting
Bleeding during pregnancy

E jiao
Ai ye
Sheng di huang
Dang gui
Chuan xiong
Shao yao
Gan cao

Contains si wu tang to nourish blood
Yáng hé tāng

Yang heartening decoction
Yin type localized swelling

Warm yang, tonifies blood
Disperse cold, unblock stagnation

Bed sores
Diabetic sores
With oozing, fatigue
Lǐ zhōng wǎn (with composition)

Regulate middle pill
Middle burner deficient cold (with some excess)

Warm middle burner
Strengthen spleen and stomach

Diarrhea with watery stool
Nausea, vomiting
Taiyin syndrome
Chronic gastritis

Gan jiang
Ren shen
Bai zhu
Zhi gan cao

Add fu zi if yang deficiency is severe
Wú zhū yú tāng (with composition)

Evodia decoction
Middle burner cold from deficiency with liver involvement

Warm and tonify liver and stomach
Direct rebellious qi down
Stop vomiting

Wu zhu yu
Sheng jiang
Ren shen
Da zao
Xiǎo jiàn zhōng tāng (with composition)

Minor construct the middle decoction
Warm and tonify middle burner
Spasmodic abdominal pain due to deficiency cold

Yi tang 30 g
Gui zhi 6 g
Shao yao 12 g (2x gui zhi)
Zhi gan cao
Sheng jiang
Da zao

Based on gui zhi tang

Add
Huang qi for spontaneous sweating
Dang gui to tonify blood
Sheng/shu di huang, E jiao for bleeding
Dà jiàn zhōng tāng (with composition)

Major construct the middle decoction
Weakness and deficiency of middle burner yang
With yin or excess cold in the interior

Warm middle burner deficiency
Direct rebellious qi down
Alleviate pain

Chuan jiao
Gan jiang
Ren shen
Yi tang
Sì nì tāng (with composition)

Frigid extremities decoction
Heart and Kidney yang deficiency with internal cold

Rescue devastated yang
Warm middle
Stop diarrhea

Shao yin cold syndrome
Aversion to cold, sleeping in fetal tuck

Sheng fu zi
Gan jiang
Zhi gan cao

Add:
Ren shen to tonify qi (Si ni jia ren shen tang)
Cong bai to unblock yang (Bai tong tang)
More fu zi and gan jiang for false heat (tong mai si ni tang)
Sì jūn zǐ tāng (with composition)

Four gentlemen decoction
For spleen qi deficiency

Soft voice, reduced appetite, loose stool, etc.

Ren shen
Bai zhu
Fu ling
Zhi gan cao

Replace ren shen with:
Dang shen (less effect on hypertension)
Hong shen (for qi, yang)
Xi yang shen (for qi, yin)

Replace fu ling with:
Fu shen (better for spirit)
Shēn líng bái zhú sǎn

Ginseng, poria, and astractylodes macrocephala powder
For spleen deficiency with internally generated dampness

Augment qi
Strengthen spleen
Leach out dampness
Stop diarrhea or vaginal discharge

Use after cancer treatment

Has Jie Geng to direct clear qi up and stop diarrhea
Bǔ zhōng yì qì tāng (with composition)

Tonify middle and augment qi decoction
For sinking yang due to spleen stomach deficiency

Tonify middle burner qi
Raise sunken yang, prolapse
Low grade fever from qi deficiency

Huang qi
Ren shen
Bai zhu
Zhi gan cao
Dang gui
Chen pi
Sheng ma
Chai hu
Shēng mài sǎn (with composition)

Generate the pulse powder
For lung (heart) qi and yin deficiency
Can have knotted, irregular, rapid pulse

Augment the qi
Generate fluid
Preserve yin
Stop excess sweating

Ren shen
Mai men dong
Wu wei zi

Can use xi yang xin to tonify yin more
Can also add blood stasis herbs
Sì wù tāng (with composition)

Four substance (ladies) decoction
For blood deficiency (mainly liver)

Tonify blood
Regulate liver

Shu di huang
Bai shao
Dang gui
Chuan xiong
Sháo yào gān cǎo tāng (with composition)

Peony and licorice decoction
For pain in the calves with blood deficiency or injured fluids

Soften liver
Moderate painful spasms
Alleviate pain

Shao yao
Zhi gan cao
Dāng guī bǔ xuè tāng (with composition)

Tangkui formula to tonify blood
Consumptive fatigue (chronic, late stage)

Tonify qi and generates blood

Huang qi (chief, 30 grams)
Dang gui (6 grams)
Guī pí tāng (with composition)

Restore the spleen decoction
For spleen and heart qi and blood deficiency

Augment qi
Tonify blood
Strengthen spleen
Nourish heart

Anemia, bleeding

Ren shen
Huang qi
Bai zhu
Dang gui
Fu ling
Suan zao ren
Long yan rou
Mu xiang
Zhi gan cao
Zhi yuan zhi

Contains Si Jun Zi Tang, Dang Gui Bu Xue Tang, and other tonify blood, nourish heart herbs
Bā zhēn tāng (with composition)

Eight treasure decoction
For qi and blood deficiency
(Or bleeding causing qi deficiency)

Tonify and augment qi and blood

Si Jun Zi Tang (4 gentlemen) + Si Wu Tang (4 ladies)

Ren shen
Bai zhu
Fu ling
Gan cao
Shu di huang
Dang gui
Chuan xiong
Bai shao

Add Huang Qi, Rou Gui for yin sores (generate flesh, warm)
Add Chen Pi, Rou Gui, etc to tonify more (Ren shen yang rong tang)
Shí quán dà bǔ tāng (with composition)

All inclusive great tonifying decoction
Qi and blood deficiency

Warm and tonify qi, blood

Women's problems, persistent uterine bleeding
Also for yin sores.

Ren shen
Bai zhu
Fu ling
Gan cao
Shu di huang
Dang gui
Chuan xiong
Bai shao
Rou Gui
Huang qi
Tài shān pán shí sǎn

Powder that gives stability of a mountain
Pregnant women with qi/blood deficiency
Restless fetus, threatened miscarriage

Augment qi
Strengthen spleen
Nourish blood
Calm fetus

May remove Chuan Xiong if no pain
May remove Dang Gui if estrogen is high
Zhì gān cǎo tāng

Honey fried licorice decoction
Augment qi
Nourish blood
Enrich yin
Restore pulse

Irregular knotted pulse (slow, skipped)
After exterior syndrome, fever (Myocarditis)
Coronary heart disease

Caution: Hypertension (Gan Cao)
Lìu wèi dì huáng wán (with composition)

Six ingredient pill with rehmannia
For kidney and liver yin deficiency

Enriches yin
Nourish kidney

Shu di huang
Shan zhu yu
Shan yao
Fu ling
Mu dan pi
Ze xie

From jin gui shen qi wan
Qǐ jú dì huáng wán (with composition)

Lyceum fruit, chrysanthemum and rehmannia pill
For liver and kidney yin deficiency, with eye and ear problems

Shu di huang
Shan zhu yu
Shan yao
Fu ling
Mu dan pi
Ze xie
Gou qi zi
Bai ju hua
Zhī bái dì huáng wán (with composition)

Anamarrhena, philodendron and rehmannia pill
For liver kidney yin deficiency fire with damp heat

Steaming bone, night sweat
Also chronic lin syndrome

Shu di huang
Shan zhu yu
Shan yao
Fu ling
Mu dan pi
Ze xie
Zhi mu
Huang bai
Zǔo guī yǐn

Restore the left decoction
For kidney yin deficiency with injury to essence and marrow

Peeled, shiny tongue

For sexual and reproductive issues
Dà bǔ yīn wán (with composition)

Great tonify yin pill
For upward rising fire from liver and kidney deficiency

Enrich yin
Descend fire

Steaming bone disorder, etc.
Tuberculosis

Shu di huang
Su jiu gui ban
Chao huang bai
Jiu chao zhi mu
Yī guàn jiān (with composition)

Linking decoction
Liver and kidney yin deficiency with liver qi stagnation

Qi stagnation can turn to heat

Sheng di huang
Gou qi zi
Sha shen
Mai men dong
Dang gui
Chuan lian zi (liver toxicity)
Èr zhì wán (with composition)

Two ultimate pill
Kidney and liver yin deficiency

Infertility or low hormones

Nu zhen zi
Han lian cao

Add sang shen, gou qi zi if ova do not develop well
For low sperm count, add some of: gou qi zi, che qian zi, sang shen, fu pen zi, tu su zi
If qi stagnation, add to xiao yao san
Jīn guì shèn qì wán (with composition)

Kidney qi pill from the golden cabinet
Kidney yang deficiency

Sheng di huang
Shan zhu yu
Shan yao
Fu zi
Gui zhi
Ze xie
Fu ling
Mu dan pi
Yǒu guī wán

Restore the right pill
For kidney yang deficiency with essence depletion

For lower sexual drive
Irregular period, ammenorhea

Has 3 tonify herbs from Liu wei di huang wan
Èr xiān tāng (with composition)

Two immortal decoction
For kidney yin and yang deficiency
With flaring of fire up

Warm yang
Replenish essence
Drain fire from kidneys
Regulate ren and chong mai

Menopause
Low Sex Drive, Impotence

Xian mao toxic
Xian ling pi (Yin yang huo)
Ba ji tian
Huang bai
Zhi mu
Dang gui
Yòu guī yǐn

Restore the right decoction
Kidney yang deficiency

Warms more than liu wei di huang wan
Less draining

Not as strong as you gui wan
Yù píng fēng sǎn (with composition)

Jade windscreen powder
For deficiency wei qi

Augment Lung qi
Stabilize exterior
Stop sweating

Prevent allergies and illness

Huang qi
Bai zhu
Fang feng

Add herbs to guide to nose
Cang er zi
Xin yi hua
Bai zhi
Mǔ lì sǎn (with composition)

Oyster shell powder
For unstable protective qi and injury to heart yin

Inhibit sweating and stabilize exterior

Mu li
Huang qi
Ma huang gen
Fu xiao mai

Not for use with dampness or excess
Dāng guī lìu huáng tāng (with composition)

Tang kuei and six yellow decoction
For raging fire from yin deficiency

Enrich yin
Clear heat
Stabilize exterior
Stop sweating

Tuberculosis, PMS, Hyperthyroidism

Dang gui
Sheng di huang
Shu di huang
Huang qin
Huang lian
Huang bai
Huang qi 2x dose
Zhén rén yǎng zàng tāng

True man's decoction to nourish the organs
For spleen and kidney yang deficiency

Warm middle
Tonify deficiency
Restrain leakage from intestines
Stop diarrhea, difficult to control

Chronic diarrhea
Prolapsed rectum
May contain pus and blood

Contains ying su ke
Sì shén wán (with composition)

Four miracle pill
Cold from deficiency of spleen and kidneys

Warm and tonify spleen and kidney
Bind intestines
Stop diarrhea early morning

Chemotherapy patients
Completely undigested food

Bu gu zhi
Wu zhu yu
Rou dou kou
Wu wei zi
Jīn suǒ gù jīng wán

Metal lock pill to stabilize essence
For kidney deficiency leading to instability at the gate of essence

Stabilize kidneys
Bind up semen, as in Chinese novel "Hong Lou Meng"

Frequent spermatorrhea
Premature ejaculation
Impotence

Has Sha Yuan Ji Li
Sāng piāo xiāo sǎn

Mantis egg-case powder
For qi deficiency of kidneys and heart

Regulate and tonify heart and kidney
Stabilize essence
Stop leakage of urine
Gù jīng wán

Stabilize the menses pill
Liver heat disturbing penetrating and conception vessels

Enrich yin
Clear heat
Stop bleeding
Stabilize menses

Continuous uterine bleeding
Blood is very red, may contain dark, purple clots
Shòu tāi wán

Fetus longevity pill
Kidney essence deficiency leading to instability of Chong and Ren

Tonify kidney
Stabilize chong and ren
Calm fetus
Wán dài tāng

End discharge decoction
Spleen deficiency with dampness and liver qi constraint

Tonify middle burner
Strengthen spleen
Transform damp
Stop vaginal discharge

Profuse vaginal discharge, white or pale yellow, thin, no foul smell
Suān zǎo rén tāng (With composition)

Sour jujube decoction
Consumption for deficient liver and heart blood

Nourish blood
Calm spirit
Clear heat
Eliminate irritability

Insomnia, palpitation, night sweats

Suan zao ren
Fu ling
Zhi mu
Chuan xiong
Gan cao
Tiān wáng bǔ xīn dān

Emperor of Heaven's special pill to tonify the heart
Yin deficiency of heart and kidney

Enrich the yin
Nourish blood
Tonify heart
Calm spirit

History of excess heat, incorrect treatment damaged yin

Irritability, palpitation, insomnia, nocturnal emission
Red tongue, little coating

1000 year old formula
Huáng lián ē jiāo tāng

Coptis and ass-hide gelatin decoction
For fire from yin deficiency affecting spirit

Enrich yin
Cause excess fire to descend
Eliminate irritability
Calm spirit

Irritability with sensation of heat in chest

Classic formula for Shaoyin heat transformation

Has ji zi huang (egg yolk)
Gān mài dà zǎo tāng (with composition)

Licorice, wheat and jujube decoction
For qi/yin deficiency of heart and spleen

Nourish heart
Calm spirit
Harmonize middle burner

Disorientation and melancholy
Neurasthenia
Restless organ
(Irritable, talking to self, yawning)

Gan cao
Fu xiao mai
Da zao
Xiāo fēng sǎn

Eliminate wind powder from true lineage
For wind heat/damp invasion with pre-existing damp heat

Disperse wind
Eliminate damp
Clear heat
Cool blood

Acute weepy, itchy, red skin lesions
Zhèn gān xī fēng tāng

Sedate the liver and extinguish wind decoction
For liver and kidney yin deficiency
and ascendent liver yang generating wind

Sedates the liver for excess
Extinguish wind
Nourish yin (treats root of problem)
Anchor yang

Hypertension
Dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, etc
No tongue coating
Tiān má gōu téng yǐn

Gastrodia and uncaria decoction
For ascendent liver yang and internal liver wind

Calm liver (treats manifestation)
Extinguish wind
Clear heat
Invigorate blood
Tonify liver and kidney

Tremors, spasm, numbness
Líng jiǎo gōu téng tāng

Antelope horn and unticaria decoction
For excessive heat in the liver leading to internal wind

Cool liver
Extinguish wind
Increase fluids
Relax tendons

Persistent high fever causes convulsions
Better for prevention
Èr chén tāng (with composition)

Two-cured decoction
Dampness and phlegm due to spleen deficiency

Dry dampness
Transform phlegm
Regulate qi
Harmonize middle burner

Coughing with copious white sputum, easy to expetorate

Ban xia
Ju hong (chen pi)
Fu ling
Zhi gan cao
Wēn dǎn tāng (with composition)

Warm the gallbladder decoction
From Er Chen Tang

For gallbladder and stomach disharmony with phlegm heat, mild effect on heart

Regulate qi
Transform phlegm
Clear gallbladder
Harmonize stomach

Dizziness, vertigo, nausea or vomiting, insomnia, palpitations, etc.
Spirit issues due to weak GB

Zhu ru
Zhi shi
Ban xia
Chen pi
Fu ling
Gan cao
Sheng jiang
Da zao
Qīng qì huà tán wán

Clear qi and transform phlegm pill
For internal clumping of phlegm heat

Clear heat
Transform phlegm
Direct rebellious qi down
Stop cough

Coughing of yellow, viscous sputum, difficult to expetorate
Bèi mǔ guā lǒu sǎn

Fritillaria and trichosanthes fruit powder
For dry-phlegm

Moisten lungs
Clear heat
Regulate qi
Transform phlegm

Cough with deep-seated sputum that is hard to expectorate
Wheezing
Dry and sore throat
Líng guì zhú gān tāng (with composition)

Poria, cinnamon twig, astractylodis macrocephalae and licorice decoction
For congested fluids in epigastrium
#1 for cold phlegm

Warm and transform phlegm and congested fluids
Strengthen spleen and resolves damp

Fullness in chest, hypochondria
Palpitations, dizziness or vertigo
Shortness of breath, coughing up clear watery sputum

Fu ling
Gui zhi
Bai zhu
Zhi gan cao
Sān zǐ yǎng qīn tāng (with composition)

Three seed decoction to nourish one's parents
For excess cold lungs with food stagnation

Direct qi down
Relax diaphragm
Transform phlegm
Reduce food stagnation

Coughing, wheezing, copious sputum + food stagnation

Bai jie zi
Su zi
Lai fu zi
Zhǐ sòu sǎn

Stop coughing powder
For wind attacking lungs

Stop cough
Transform phlegm
Disperse exterior
Disseminate lung qi

Coughing with or without chills/fever, itchy throat
Slight wind cold cough
Bàn xià bái zhú tiān má tāng

Pinellia, astractylodes macrocephala and gastrodia decoction
From er chen tang

For upward disturbance of wind-phlegm in brain

Strengthen spleen
Dispel damp
Transform phlegm
Extinguish wind

Dizziness or vertigo, severe headache, stifling sensation in chest, nausea or vomiting
Bǎo hé wán (with composition)

Preserve harmony pill
For acute, mild food stagnation

Reduces food stagnation and harmonizes stomach

Focal distension and fullness in chest and epigastrium...
May be diarrhea

Shan zha
Shen qu
Lai fu zi
Chen pi
Ban xia
Fu ling
Lian qiao
Du Qi Wan

Capital Qi Pill
Tonify yin

Kidney yin deficiency with lung qi or yin def

Cough and wheezing

Liu wei di huang wan with wu wei zi
Gui Zhi Shao Yao Zhi Mu Tang

Cinnamon Twig, Peony, and Anemarrhena Decoction
Dispel wind damp

Wind damp bi turning to heat

Rheumatoid arthritis
Juan Bi Tang

Remove Painful Obstructions from Awakening of the Mind in Medical Studies
Dispel wind damp

Wind damp bi with ying and wei qi deficiency

Has huang qi
Run Chang Wan

Moisten the Intestines Pill from Master Shen's Book
Drain downward

Constipation due to dry intestines
Xiang Ru San

Elsholtzia Powder
Summer heat
Xiao Huo Lou Dan

Minor Invigorate the Collaterals Special Pill
Sequelae of wind stroke

Cold, damp, phlegm, blood stasis

In channels and collaterals
Zuo gui wan
Kidney yin deficiency

Stronger than zuo gui yin

Contains lu jiao jiao
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