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Yin Chen Zhu Fu Tang Li Zhong Wan

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茵陈术附汤 · Yin Chen Zhu Fu Tang

理中丸 · Li Zhong Wan

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

Net slightly warm (+0.68)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

cool neutral warm hot

Grams by band: cool 19%, neutral 19%, warm 38%, hot 25%.

Small but decisive: Gan Jiang 1.5g (hot, 9% of the grams), Zhi Fu Zi 1.5g (hot, 9% of the grams), Rou Gui 0.9g (hot, 6% 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 warm (+0.96)

From 100% of the weighed grams.

neutral warm hot

Grams by band: neutral 23%, warm 58%, hot 19%.

Taste
pungent sweet bitter
  • pungent 26%
  • sweet 45%
  • bitter 28%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

pungent sweet bitter
  • pungent 19%
  • sweet 52%
  • bitter 29%

From 100% of the weighed grams.

Channels reached
  • Spleen 100%
  • Stomach 85%
  • Heart 43%
  • Lung 28%
  • Liver 25%
  • Gallbladder 19%

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

  • Spleen 100%
  • Stomach 77%
  • Lung 65%
  • Heart 65%
  • Kidney 23%

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

Left out None None
Composition
Chief herbs —
Ren Shen Gan Jiang
Herbs 6 4
Total weight 15.9 g 26.0 g
Source
Classical source Awakening of the Mind in Medical Studies Shang Han Lun
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.