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Ge Hua Jie Cheng San Xiang Sha Yang Wei Tang

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葛花解酲散 · Ge Hua Jie Cheng San

香砂养胃汤 · Xiang Sha Yang Wei Tang

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

Net slightly warm (+0.43)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold cool neutral warm hot

Grams by band: cold 7%, cool 17%, neutral 10%, warm 60%, hot 7%.

Small but decisive: Gan Jiang 6g (hot, 7% of the grams), Ze Xie 6g (cold, 7% 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 warm (+0.77)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

neutral warm

Grams by band: neutral 23%, warm 77%.

Taste
pungent sweet bitter bland
  • pungent 48%
  • sweet 34%
  • bitter 10%
  • bland 8%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

pungent sweet bitter bland
  • pungent 42%
  • sweet 21%
  • bitter 32%
  • bland 5%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Spleen 87%
  • Stomach 73%
  • Lung 39%
  • Kidney 39%
  • Heart 17%
  • Gallbladder 3%

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

  • Spleen 100%
  • Stomach 62%
  • Lung 49%
  • Kidney 27%
  • Liver 21%
  • Heart 20%

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

Left out None None
Composition
Chief herbs
Ge Hua
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Herbs 13 11
Total weight 89.4 g 23.1 g
Source
Classical source Yi Fang Ji Jie Wan Bing Hui Chun
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.