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Ma Huang Lian Qiao Chi Xiao Dou Tang Liu Shen San

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Ma Huang Lian Qiao Chi Xiao Dou Tang

六神散 · Liu Shen San

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

Net slightly cool (-0.39)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold cool neutral warm

Grams by band: cold 30%, cool 6%, neutral 36%, warm 27%.

Pairs warm and cool. 27% of the weighed grams are warm or hot and 36% cool or cold — the net is their average, not the whole story.

Cold Cool Neutral Warm Hot

Net slightly warm (+0.64)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

neutral warm

Grams by band: neutral 36%, warm 64%.

Taste
pungent sweet sour bitter
  • pungent 9%
  • sweet 52%
  • sour 15%
  • bitter 24%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

sweet bitter bland
  • sweet 77%
  • bitter 14%
  • bland 9%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Lung 70%
  • Spleen 42%
  • Heart 42%
  • Small intestine 36%
  • Large intestine 15%
  • Stomach 12%

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

  • Spleen 100%
  • Lung 64%
  • Stomach 55%
  • Heart 46%
  • Kidney 27%

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 — —
Herbs 8 6
Total weight 99.0 g 165.0 g
Source
Classical source Shang Han Lun Indispensable Tools for Pattern Treatment
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.