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Gu Jing Wan Huang Qin Tang

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固经丸 · Gu Jing Wan

黄芩汤 · Huang Qin Tang

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

Net cold (-1.61)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold cool neutral

Grams by band: cold 70%, cool 22%, neutral 9%.

Small but decisive: Huang Bai 6g (cold, 9% 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 cool (-1.29)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold cool neutral

Grams by band: cold 43%, cool 43%, neutral 14%.

Taste
pungent sweet sour bitter salty
  • pungent 3%
  • sweet 14%
  • sour 11%
  • bitter 62%
  • salty 11%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

sweet sour bitter
  • sweet 14%
  • sour 21%
  • bitter 64%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Liver 70%
  • Spleen 52%
  • Large intestine 48%
  • Heart 44%
  • Stomach 39%
  • Kidney 30%

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

  • Spleen 100%
  • Lung 57%
  • Stomach 57%
  • Heart 57%
  • Large intestine 43%
  • Small intestine 43%

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

Left out None 1 not profiled, 1 not weighed
Composition
Chief herbs
Gui Ban Bai Shao
Huang Qin
Herbs 6 4
Total weight 69.0 g 21.0 g
Source
Classical source Yi Xue Ru Men Shang Han Lun
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.