Compare Formulas

Put up to 4 formulas side by side — dose-weighted nature, taste balance and channel reach, with the composition behind them.

Shu Jing Huo Xue Tang Niu Huang Cheng Qi Tang

疏经活血汤 · Shu Jing Huo Xue Tang

牛黄承气汤 · Niu Huang Cheng Qi Tang

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

Net neutral (+0.05)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cold cool neutral warm

Grams by band: cold 16%, cool 11%, neutral 23%, warm 49%.

Pairs warm and cool. 49% of the weighed grams are warm or hot and 28% cool or cold — the net is their average, not the whole story.

Small but decisive: Sheng Di Huang 3g (cold, 8% of the grams), Han Fang Ji 1.8g (cold, 5% of the grams), Long Dan Cao 1.8g (cold, 5% 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 31%
  • sweet 24%
  • sour 6%
  • bitter 33%
  • salty 4%
  • bland 3%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

bitter
  • bitter 100%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Liver 63%
  • Spleen 52%
  • Lung 32%
  • Heart 32%
  • Kidney 29%
  • Stomach 15%

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 16 1
Total weight 40.2 g 9.0 g
Source
Classical source Wan Bing Hui Chun 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.