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Ren Shen Hua Ban Tang Liu Shen San

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Ren Shen Hua Ban Tang

六神散 · Liu Shen San

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

Net cool (-0.91)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold neutral warm

Grams by band: cold 56%, neutral 22%, warm 22%.

Small but decisive: Zhi Mu 7.5g (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 slightly warm (+0.64)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

neutral warm

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

Taste
pungent sweet bitter salty bland
  • pungent 24%
  • sweet 56%
  • bitter 10%
  • salty 6%
  • bland 6%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

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

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Lung 78%
  • Stomach 56%
  • Heart 55%
  • Spleen 44%
  • Kidney 31%
  • Liver 22%

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 None None
Composition
Chief herbs — —
Herbs 7 6
Total weight 82.5 g 165.0 g
Source
Classical source Achieving Longevity by Guarding the Source 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.