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Shi Bu Wan Niu Huang Cheng Qi Tang

十补丸 · Shi Bu Wan

牛黄承气汤 · Niu Huang Cheng Qi Tang

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

Net slightly warm (+0.46)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold cool neutral warm hot

Grams by band: cold 8%, cool 13%, neutral 21%, warm 42%, hot 17%.

Small but decisive: Rou Gui 3g (hot, 4% of the grams), Ze Xie 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 cold (-2.00)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold

Grams by band: cold 100%.

Taste
pungent sweet sour bitter salty bland
  • pungent 15%
  • sweet 50%
  • sour 19%
  • bitter 6%
  • salty 2%
  • bland 8%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

bitter
  • bitter 100%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Kidney 100%
  • Heart 50%
  • Liver 46%
  • Spleen 38%
  • Lung 33%

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

  • Large intestine 100%
  • Stomach 100%
  • Spleen 100%
  • Pericardium 100%
  • Liver 100%

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

Left out None None
Composition
Chief herbs — —
Herbs 10 1
Total weight 72.0 g 9.0 g
Source
Classical source Ji Sheng Fang Systematic Differentiation of Warm Pathogen Diseases
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.