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Shen Tong Zhu Yu Tang Liu Shen San

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身痛逐瘀汤 · Shen Tong Zhu Yu Tang

六神散 · Liu Shen San

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

Net slightly warm (+0.28)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold neutral warm

Grams by band: cold 8%, neutral 48%, warm 44%.

Small but decisive: Di Long 6g (cold, 8% 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
  • pungent 35%
  • sweet 30%
  • bitter 24%
  • salty 11%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

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

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Liver 88%
  • Heart 52%
  • Spleen 48%
  • Lung 40%
  • Kidney 16%
  • Large intestine 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 None None
Composition
Chief herbs — —
Herbs 12 6
Total weight 75.0 g 165.0 g
Source
Classical source Yi Lin Gai Cuo 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.