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Put up to 4 formulas side by side — dose-weighted nature, taste balance and channel reach, with the composition behind them.

Gu Biao Zhi Han Tang Zhi Zi Gan Jiang Tang

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固表止汗汤 · Gu Biao Zhi Han Tang

栀子干姜汤 · Zhi Zi Gan Jiang Tang

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

Net slightly cool (-0.54)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold cool neutral warm

Grams by band: cold 17%, cool 37%, neutral 30%, warm 16%.

Small but decisive: Mai Men Dong 9g (cold, 6% of the grams), Qing Hao 9g (cold, 6% of the grams), Bai Wei 9g (cold, 6% 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 cold (-2.00)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold

Grams by band: cold 100%.

Taste
pungent sweet sour bitter salty
  • pungent 3%
  • sweet 54%
  • sour 1%
  • bitter 12%
  • salty 30%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

bitter
  • bitter 100%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Kidney 60%
  • Heart 57%
  • Liver 57%
  • Lung 54%
  • Stomach 27%
  • Gallbladder 24%

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

  • Lung 100%
  • Heart 100%

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

Left out None None
Composition
Chief herbs — —
Herbs 11 1
Total weight 163.0 g 9.0 g
Source
Classical source Case Histories of Huang Wen-Dong Discussion of Cold Damage
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.