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Hui Yang Jiu Ji Tang Guo Qi Yin

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回阳救急汤 · Hui Yang Jiu Ji Tang

过期饮 · Guo Qi Yin

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

Net warm (+1.05)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

neutral warm hot

Grams by band: neutral 22%, warm 52%, hot 27%.

Small but decisive: Gan Jiang 5g (hot, 8% of the grams), Rou Gui 3g (hot, 5% 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 (+0.33)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold cool neutral warm hot

Grams by band: cold 4%, cool 17%, neutral 25%, warm 51%, hot 3%.

Small but decisive: Mu Tong 1.5g (cold, 4% of the grams), Rou Gui 1.2g (hot, 3% of the grams). Dose weighting nearly cancels a herb this small, but it may be what the formula is for.

Taste
pungent sweet sour bitter bland
  • pungent 36%
  • sweet 38%
  • sour 2%
  • bitter 16%
  • bland 7%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

pungent sweet sour bitter
  • pungent 32%
  • sweet 38%
  • sour 8%
  • bitter 23%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Spleen 95%
  • Lung 67%
  • Heart 63%
  • Kidney 47%
  • Stomach 44%
  • Liver 5%

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

  • Liver 93%
  • Spleen 60%
  • Heart 38%
  • Kidney 20%
  • Lung 14%
  • Pericardium 8%

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

Left out 1 not profiled, 1 not weighed None
Composition
Chief herbs
Zhi Fu Zi
Shu Di Huang Dang Gui
Herbs 12 11
Total weight 64.1 g 36.3 g
Source
Classical source Shang Han Liu Shu Zheng Zhi Zhun Sheng
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.