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Dang Gui Long Hui Wan Liu Shen San

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当归龙荟丸 · Dang Gui Long Hui Wan

六神散 · Liu Shen San

Energetics (dose-weighted)
Net nature
Cold Cool Neutral Warm Hot

Net cool (-1.46)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold warm

Grams by band: cold 82%, warm 18%.

Small but decisive: Long Dan Cao 15g (cold, 8% of the grams), Lu Hui 15g (cold, 8% of the grams), Da Huang 15g (cold, 8% of the grams). Dose weighting nearly cancels a herb this small, but it may be what the formula is for.

Cold Cool Neutral Warm Hot

Net slightly warm (+0.64)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

neutral warm

Grams by band: neutral 36%, warm 64%.

Taste
pungent sweet bitter
  • pungent 9%
  • sweet 8%
  • bitter 83%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

sweet bitter bland
  • sweet 77%
  • bitter 14%
  • bland 9%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Large intestine 62%
  • Heart 60%
  • Spleen 55%
  • Liver 53%
  • Stomach 47%
  • Gallbladder 40%

Share of the grams entering each channel, from 100% of the weighed grams.

  • Spleen 100%
  • Lung 64%
  • Stomach 55%
  • Heart 46%
  • Kidney 27%

Share of the grams entering each channel, from 100% of the weighed grams.

Left out None None
Composition
Chief herbs
Long Dan Cao
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Herbs 10 6
Total weight 201.0 g 165.0 g
Source
Classical source Dan Xi Xin Fa Indispensable Tools for Pattern Treatment
Dynasty — —

Energetics are dose-weighted from each herb's recorded nature, taste and channels; herbs without a record are left out, never counted as neutral, and a net nature is withheld when its chief herb has none. Classical formulas often pair warm and cool herbs on purpose — a net figure summarises the mix, it doesn't judge it.

Educational reference only — not medical advice. Blank cells mean nothing is recorded, not that a property is absent.