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Long Dan Xie Gan Tang Ba Zheng San

	Long Dan Xie Gan Tang 龙胆泻肝汤 · Long Dan Xie Gan Tang	Ba Zheng San 八正散 · Ba Zheng San
Energetics (dose-weighted)
Net nature	Net cool (-1.46) From 100% of the weighed grams. Grams by band: cold 75%, cool 7%, neutral 7%, warm 11%. Small but decisive: Long Dan Cao 6g (cold, 7% of the grams). Dose weighting nearly cancels a herb this small, but it may be what the formula is for.	Net cold (-1.65) From 100% of the weighed grams. Grams by band: cold 74%, cool 17%, neutral 9%. Small but decisive: Da Huang 6g (cold, 9% of the grams). Dose weighting nearly cancels a herb this small, but it may be what the formula is for.
Taste	pungent 9% sweet 30% bitter 48% bland 13% From 100% of the weighed grams.	sweet 24% bitter 61% bland 15% From 100% of the weighed grams.
Channels reached	Heart 61% Liver 46% Lung 39% Kidney 36% Spleen 29% Gallbladder 25% Share of the grams entering each channel, from 100% of the weighed grams.	Heart 52% Lung 39% Stomach 30% Small intestine 30% Bladder 26% Liver 22% Share of the grams entering each channel, from 100% of the weighed grams.
Left out	None	None
Composition
Chief herbs	Long Dan Cao	Mu Tong Hua Shi
Herbs	10	9
Total weight	84.0 g	69.0 g
Source
Classical source	Yi Fang Ji Jie (Collected Explanations of Medical Formulas)	Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang
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.