Name English Herbs 8 Principle # of Herbs

An Gong Niu Calm the Palace Niu Huang, Xi Jiao, Clears heat, relieves 11
Huang Wan Pill with Cattle She Xiang, Huang toxicity, dislodges
Gallstone Lian, Huang Qin, Zhi phlegm fire, opens the
Zi, Xiong Huang, Bing orifices and calms the
Pian, Yu Jin, Zhu Sha, spirit
Zhen Zhu

An Shen Ding Calm Spirit and Ren Shen, Fu Ling, Fu Tonifies HT Qi, 6
Zhi Tang Stop Fear Shen, Chang Pu, Yuan Astringes HT, Clears
Decoction Zhi, Long Gu Phlegm (HT, HT/KI),
Opens Orifices,
Settles Spirit

Ba Zhen Tang Eight precious Shu Di Huang, Tang Tonifies SP Qi, 8

Kwei, Chuan Xiong, Tonifies LR Blood
Bai Shao, Ren Shen,
Bai Zhu, Fu Ling, Gan
Cao
Bai He Gu Jin Lily Bulb Bai He, Mai Men Dong, Tonify LU Yin, KI Yin, 10
Tang Decoction Sheng Di Huang, Shu Clear Hot Phlegm,
Di Huang, Bei Mu, Nourish Blood
Xuan Shen, Dang Gui,
Bai Shao Jie Geng,
Gan Cao

Bai Hu Tang White Tiger, Shi Gao, Zhi Mu, Gan acute: qi level stage of 4
Gypsum Cao, Jing Mi Rice wind-heat invasion.
Combination Chronic: blazing yang
ming fire
Bai Zi Yang Biota Seed Pill Bai Zi Ren, Mai Men Calm & Nourish Spirit, 9
Xin Wan to Nourish the Dong, Dang Gui, Gou Tonify KI & HT Yin
Heart Qi Zi, Xuan Shen, Fu
Shen, Shi Chang Pu,
Shu Di Huang, Gan
Cao

Ban Xia Hou Pinellia and Ban Xia, Hou Po, Fu Moves SP, ST, LU Qi, 5
Pu Tang Magnolia Bark Ling, Sheng Jiang, Zi Transforms Damp,
Decoction Su Ye Dissipates Clumps,
Directs Rebellious Qi
Downwards,
Transforms Phlegm

Ban Xia Xie Pinellia Heart Ren Shen, Da Zao, Harmonizes ST and 7
Xin Tang Draining Gan Cao, Ban Xia, Intestines (hot and
Concoction, Gan Jiang, Huang Qin, cold mutually
Pinellia Huang Lian entangled in the
Decoction to intestines). Bensky:
Drain the Directs rebellious qi
Epigastrium down, disperses
clumping, eliminates
focal distension. Helps
the SI connect with
other fu so that they
have consciousness
of HT.
Bu Fei Tang Tonify the Lungs Ren Shen, Huang Qi, Tonify LU Qi, Tonify 6
Wu Wei Zi, Sang Bai LU Yin, Tonify KI Yin
Pi, Shu Di Huang, Zi
Wan

Bu Zhong Yi Tonify the Middle Huang Qi, Ren Shen, Tonifies SP Qi, LR 8
Qi Tang and Augment Bai Zhu, Gan Cao, Yang, LU Qi. Tonifies
the Qi Chen Pi, Chai Hu, SP Qi of Middle Jiao
Sheng Ma, Tang Kwei and Raises Sunken
Yang

Cang Er Zi Xanthium Cang Er Zi, Xin Yi Hua, Wind-damp stuck in 4

Tang Powder Bai Zhi, Bo He the nose

Chai Hu Jia Bupleurum plus Chau Hu, Huang Qin, Settle Spirit. 12
Long Gu Mu Dragon Bones Ren Shen, Gui Zhi, Shaoyang and
Li Tang and Oyster Shell Ban Xia, Fu Ling, Da Yangming disorder
Decoction Huang, Long Gu, Mu that is tangled and
Li, Sheng Jiang, Da stuck
Zao, Qian Dan
Chai Hu Su Bupleurum Chai Hu, Bai Shao, Spreads LR Qi, 7
Gu Su San Powder to Gan Cao, Zhi Ke, Harmonizes Blood,
Spread the Liver Chuan Xiong, Xiang Alleviates Pain
Fu, Chen Pi, optional:
Jie Geng

Ci Zhu Wan Magnetite and Ci Shi, Zhu Sha, Shen Heavily sedates and 3
Cinnabar Pill Qu calms the Spirit,
weighs down yang,
improves vision and
hearing

Cong Chi Scallion and Dan Dou Chi, Cong Bai 2

Tang Prepared
Soybean
Da Bu Yin Great Tonify the Shu Di Huang, Gui Tonify KI Yin, Clear KI 4
Wan Yin Pill Ban, Huang Bai, Zhi Fire, Settle Spirit
Mu

Da Cheng Qi Major Order the Da Huang, Mang Xiao, organ level yangming 4
Tang Qi Zhi Shi, Hou Po

Da Qing Long Major Blue Ma Huang, Shi Gao, yang ming stage of 7
Tang Green Dragon Xing Ren, Gui Zhi, Da wind-cold invasion
Zao, Sheng Jiang, Gan
Cao
Da Zao Wan Great Creation Gui Ban, Huang Bai, Tonifies KI, SP & LU 8
Pill Huai Niu Xi, Ren Shen, Yin, Clears KI & LU
Du Zhong, Mai Men heat
Dong, Tian Men Dong

Dan Gui Si Ni Dan Gui for Dang Gui, Gui Zhi, Bai Warm the channels, 7
San Frigid Shao, Da Zao, Gan disperse cold, Tonify
Extremities Cao, Mu Tong, Xi Xin blood

Dang Gui Di TK & Dang Gui, Shu Di Tonify KI & LR Blood, 7

Huang Yin Rehmannia Huang, Huai Niu Xi, regulates menstrual
Shan Yao, Du Zhong, cycle.
Shan Zhu Yu, Zhi Gan
Cao
Dang Gui San Tang Kwei Dang Gui, Bai Shao, Tonify Blood, 5
Powder Chuan Xiong, Huang Transform Damp-Heat
Qin, Bai Zhu

Dao Chi San Guide Out the Sheng Di Huang, Dan Clears HT Fire, SI 4
Red, Zhu Ye, Mu Tong, Gan Fire, BL fire
Rehmannia and Cao
Akebia Combo
Di Tan Tang Scour Phlegm Dan Nan Xing, Shi scours out phlegm, 12
Decoction Chang Pu, Zhu Ru, opens the orifices and
Ban Xia, Ju Hong, tonifies qi
Chen Pi, Zhi Shi, Fu
Ling, Ren Shen, Gan
Cao, Sheng Jiang, Da
Zao

Du Huo Ji Pubescent Tang Kwei, Chuan Wind Cold Damp Bi 14

Sheng Tang Angelica Xiong, Shu Di Huang, (painful obstruction
Mulberry Bai Shao, Ren Shen, syndrome)
Mistletoe Soup Fu Ling, Gan Cao, Du
Huo, Sang Ji Sheng,
Du Zhong, Niu Xi, Xi
Xin, Fang Feng,
Qinjiao

Er Chen Tang Two-Cured Chen Pi, Ban Xia, Fu Transform Damp 5

Decoction, Ling, Zhi Gan Cao, Phlegm. Regulates Qi,
Citrus and Sheng Jiang Harmonizes middle
Pinellia Combo jiao
Er Dong Tang Ophiopogon and Mai Men Dong, Tian Tonifies LU yin, KI yin, 7
Asparagus Men Dong, Ren Shen, clears LU heat &
Decoction Tian Hua Fen, Huang phlegm. For thirsty
Qin, Zhi Mu, Gan Cao person

Er Xian Tang Two Immortals Yin Yang Huo, Ba Ji Warms KI Yang, 6

Decoction Tian, Xian Mao, Huang Tonifies Jing, Drains
Bai, Zhi Mu, Dang Gui KI Fire, Regulates
Chong & Ren Mai

Er Zhi Wan Two Ultimate Pill Han Lian Cao, Nu Tonify KI and LR Yin 2
Zhen Zi
Gan Mai Da Licorice, Wheat Gan Cao, Fu Xiao Mai, Thea: Nourish spirit, 3
Zao Tang and Jujube Da Zao Astringe HM blood,
Decoction, "That Tonify HT blood and
Wheat Husk Yin. Bensky: Tonifies
Formula" HT, Calms Spirit,
Harmonizes Middle
Jiao

Gu Yin Jian Stabilize the Yin Ren Shen, Tu Si Zi, Enriches KI (yin) and 8
Shan Yao, Yuan Zhi, regulates Chong &
Wu Wei Zi, Shan Zhu Ren Mai.
Yu, Shu Di Huang, Zhi
Gan Cao
Gui Pi Tang Restore Spleen, Ren Shen, Fu Shen, Tonifies SP Qi, Heart 10
Gather Vitality, Bai Zhu, Gan Cao, Blood, Drains a little
Kwei Bein Wan Huang Qi, Mu Xiang, SP damp, Nourishes
Tang Kwei, Suan Zao & Calms Spirit. Treats
Ren, Long Yan Rou, Restless Heart Spirit,
Yuan Zhi Qi and Blood
Deficiency and the
Inability of the Spleen
to Control the Blood.
All of these arise from
Qi and Blood
Deficiency. The Heart
deficiency arises from
the SP deficiency.

Gui Zhi Fu Cinnamon Twig Gui Zhi, Fu Ling, Mu Thea: Moves 5

Ling Tang and Poria Pill Dan Pi, Chi Shao, Tao Congealed Blood
Ren (HM) USUALLY
expressed in uterus.
Clears Damp phlegm
in Lower jiao (either
SI, BL or uterus).
Bensky: Moves
Congealed Blood,
Transforms
Congealed Blood,
Reduces Fixed
Abdominal Masses

Gui Zhi Jia Cinnamon Twig Gui Zhi, Bai Shao, ShengKIJiang,
astringent,
Da Zao,
Tonify
GanKICao, Long Gu, 7Mu Li
Long Mu Tang Decoction plus Qi, Yin, Yang, HT/KI
Dragon Bone not harmonized,
and Oyster Shell Adjust Ying and Wei,
Settle Spirit
Gui Zhi Tang Cinnamon Twig Gui Zhi, Bai Shao, Releases pathogenic 5
Soup Sheng Jiang, Da Zao, influences from the
Zhi Gan Cao muscle layer (treats
1st stage of cold
induced disorder),
Regulates Ying and
Wei layers. Warms

Huang Lian E Coptis and Ass- Huang Lian, Huang Tonifies Yin, 5
Jiao Tang Hide Gelatin Qin, E Jiao, Shao Yao, Descends Fire, Calms
Decoction Ji Zi Huang the Spirit
Huang Lian Coptis Huang Lian, Huang Clear Heat, Clear Fire 4
Jie Du Tang Decoction to Qin, Huang Bai, Zhi Zi Poison, Relieve
Relieve Toxicity Toxicity

Jai Tai Wan Grand Huang Lian, Rou Gui Re-establishes 2

Communication harmonious
Pill communication
between the HT and
KI

Ji Sheng Shen Kidney Qi Aid Shu Di Huang, Shan Warms Yang, Tonifies 10
Qi Wan the Living Zhu Yu, Shan Yao, Ze KI, Assists qi in
Xie, Mu Dan Pi, Fu transforming water,
Ling, Fu Zi, Rou Gui promotes urination,
(Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan) reduces edema
+ Che Qian Zi, Niu Xi
Jia Jian Fu Modified Zhi Gan Cao, Sheng Di Tonifies Blood (LU, 6
Mai Tang Restore the Huang, Bai Shao, E LR), preserves yin
Pulse Jiao, Mai Men Dong,
Huo Ma Ren
Jia Wei Bu Augmented Wu Wei Zi, Huang Qi, Tonifies SP Qi & LU 9
Zhong Yi Qi Tonify the Middle Ren Shen, Bai Zhu, Qi. Stops Bleeding.
Tang and Augment Gan Cao, Chen Pi,
the Qi, Ginseng Sheng Mai, Chai Hu,
and Astragals Tang Kwei, E Jiao, Ai
Ye

Jia Wei Liu Jin Augmented Six Ren Shen, Bai Zhu, Fu Tonifies SP Qi, 7
Si Tang Gentlemen Ling, Gan Cao, Ban Transforms Damp
Decoction Xia, Chen Pi, Yuan Zhi Phlegm
Jia Wei Sheng Augmented Ren Shen, Mai Men Tonifies HT Qi, LU/LI 4
Mai San Generate the Dong, Wu Wei Zi, Mai Yin, LU Qi, Tan
Pulse Powder Zi Ren/Hou Mai Ren Zhong, Augments Qi,
Generates fluids,
Preserves Yin, Stops
Excess Sweating

Jia Wei Xiao Relaxed Chai Hu, Bo He, Bai Spreads LR Qi, 10
Yao San Wanderer, Shao, Tang Kwei, Gan Tonifies LR Blood,
Bupleurum and Cao, Bai Zhu, Fu Ling, Transforms Damp,
Peony Formula Sheng Jiang, Zhi Zi, Tonifies SP Qi, Clears
Mu Dan Pi Heat (in Blood and
generally)

Jian Pi Wan Strengthen the Ren Shen, Gan Cao, Tonifies and Moves 11
Spleen Pill Fu Ling, Bai Zhu, Chen SP Qi, Reduces Food
Pi, Ban Xia, Sha Ren, Stagnation, Stops
Mu Xiang, Shan Yao, Diarrhea
Chao Shen Qu, Shan
Zha
Jin Gui Shen Kidney Qi Pill Fu Zi, Rou Gui, Shu Di Huang,
TonifiesShan
KI Yang,
Zhu Yu, Shan Yao, Fu Ling,
8 Mu Dan Pi, Ze Xie
Qi Wan from the Golden Tonifies KI Qi
Cabinet

Li Zhong Wan Ren Shen Tang, Gan Jiang, Ren Shen, Warms Middle Burner, 4
Regulate the Bai Zhu, Zhi Gan Cao Tonifies SP & ST,
Middle, Ginseng Tonifies SP Yang
and Ginger Deficiency
Combo

Liu Jun Zi Six Gentlemen Ren Shen, Fu Ling, Bai Tonifies SP, 6
Tang Decoction Zhu, Gan Cao, Chen Transforms Phlegm,
Pi, Ban Xia Stops Vomiting
Long Dan Xie Gentiana Chai Hu, Long Dan Drains LR & GB 10
Gan Tang Decoction to Cao, Huang Qin, Zhi Damp Heat, Drains
Drain the Liver Zi, Mu Tong, Ze Xie, LR & GB Fire, Drains
Che Qian Zi, Tang Lower Jiao Damp-
Kwei, Sheng Di Huang, Heat
Gan Cao

Lui Wei Di Six Ingredient Shu Di Huang, Shan Tonifies Kidney Yin 6
Huang Wan Pill With Zhu Yu, Shan Yao, Fu
Rehmannia Ling, Mu Dan Pi, Ze
Xie

Ma Huang Ephedra Soup Ma Huang, Gui Zhi, Taiyang stage of wind- 4

Tang Xing Ren, Gan Cao cold invasion, strong
constitution
Mai Men Dong Ophiopogon Mai Men Dong, Ren Tonifies ST Yin and 6
Tang Decoction Shen, Ban Xia, Da, LU Yin.
Zao, Gan Cao, Jing Mi

Ming Mu Di Improve Vision Shu Di Huang, Sheng Tonify KI and LR Yin 10

Huang Wan Pill with Di Huang, Mu Dan Pi,
Rehmannia Shan Yao, Shan Zhu
Yu, Ze Xie, Dang Gui,
Fu Shen, Chai Hu, Wu
Wei Zi

Mu Li San Oyster Shell Mu Li, Huang Qi, Ma Stabilize the Exterior 4

Powder Huang Gen, Fu Xiao
Mai

Nei Bu Wan Internal Sang Piao Xiao, Sha Tonifies KI Yang, 8

Tonification Pill Yuan Ji Li, Tu Si Zi, Bladder Yang,
Rou Gui, Fu Zi, Lu Strengthens Ming
Rong, Rou Cong Rong, Men, GV, Bladder
Zi Wan lines and organs
Qi Bao Mei Seven Treasure Gou Ji Zi, He Shou Wu, Tonifies Jing, Tonifies 7
Ran Dan Special Pill for Tang Kwei, Niu Xi, Tu KI Yang, Tonifies KI
Beautiful Si Zi, Bu Gu Zi, Fu Ling Yin, Tonifies KI Qi,
Whiskers Tonifies KI Blood,
Tonifies LR Blood/Yin

Qi Ju Di Lycii Gou Ji Zi, Ju Hua, Shu DiTonifies

Huang,Kidney
Shan Zhu
Yin, Yu, Shan Yao, Fu8Ling, Mu Dan Pi, Ze Xie
Huang Wan Chrysanthemum Tonifies Liver Yin
6 Flavor
Rehmannia;
Modification of
Lui Wei Di
Huang Wan

Qing Wei San Clear the Huang Lian, Sheng Drains ST Fire, Cools 6
Stomach (Coptis Ma, Mu Dan Pi, Sheng Blood, Nourishes Yin
and Rehmannia) Di Huang, Tang Kwei,
Shi Gao
Qing Wen Bai Clear Epidemics Shi Gao, Zhi Mu, Dan Clears Heat / Fire 14
Du Yin and Overcome Zhu Yu, Xi Jiao, Xuan Poison from Qi and
Toxin Shen, Sheng Di Blood levels, Relieves
Huang, Mu Dan Pi, Chi toxicity
Shao, Huang Lian,
Huang Qin, Zhi Zi, Lian
Qiao, Jie Geng, Gan
Cao

Qing Ying Clear the Xi Jiao, Sheng Di Acute: Wind-Heat in 9

Tang Nutritive Qi Huang, Xuan Shen, Ying level Chronic:
Dan Zhu Ye, Huang Heat in the Blood
Lian, Lian Qiao, Jin Yin
Hua, Mai Men Dong,
Dan Shen
Ren Shen Ge Ginseng and Ge Jie, Ren Shen, Zhi Resolves LU Hot 8
Jie San Gecko Gan Cao, Fu Ling, Xing phlegm, Tonifies KI
Ren, Chuan Bei Mu,
Sang Bai Pi, Zhi Mu
Ren Shen Hu Ginseng and Hu Tao Ren, Ren Tonifies LU and KI, 4
Tao Tang Walnuts Shen, Sheng Jiang, Da arrests wheezing,
Zao stops coughing.
Tonifies KI grasp qi &
LU qi not descending.

Ren Shen Ginseng Bai Shao, Tang Kwei, Tonifies Qi, Blood, 13
Yang Rong Nutritive Shu Di Huang, Ren Nourishes spirit,
Wan Formula, Shen, Bai Zhu, Fu Adjusts Ying & Wei
Ginseng Ling, Chen Pi, Huang
Construction Qi, Wu Wei Zi, Yuan
Nourishing Zhi, Gui Xin, Da Zao,
Decoction Sheng Jiang
Sang Ju Yin Mulberry Leaf / San Ye, Ju Hua, Lian Releases exterior 8
Morus and Qiao, Bo He, Jie Geng, wind-heat and stops
Chrysanthemum Xing Ren, Lu Gen, Gan cough by facilitating
Decoction Cao flow of LU qi

Sang Piao Mantis Formula, Sang Piao Xiao, Yuan Astringe/Tonify KI Qi, 8
Xiao San Mantis Egg Zhi, Long Gu, Gui Ban, Harmonize and
Case Powder Fu Shen, Chang Pu, Tonifies the Heart and
Ren Shen, Tang Kwei Kidneys, Open
Orifices, Tonify HT Qi,
Calms Spirit,
Stabilizes Jing, Stops
Leakage

Sha Shen Mai Glehnia & Sha Shen, Mai Men Tonify LU & ST Yin, 7
Men Dong Ophiopogon Dong, San Ye, Tian Clear LU heat,
Tang Decoction Hua Fen, Yu Zhu, Bian
Dou, Gan Cao
Shen Ling Bai Ginseng Poria Ren Shen, Bai Zhu, Fu Tonifies Qi, 10
Zhu San Atractylodes Ling, Gan Cao, Shan Strengthens SP,
Powder Yao, Lian Zi, Bai Bian Drains Damp, Stops
Dou, Yi Yi Ren, Sha Diarrhea
Ren, Jie Geng

Sheng Mai Generate the Ren Shen, Mai Men Tonifies HT/LU Qi (Tan 3
San Pulse, Ginseng Dong, Wu Wei Zi Zhong). Tonifies LU
and Ophiopogon Yin. Tan Zhong Tonic.
Augments Qi,
Generates Fluids,
Preserves Yin, Stops
Excess Sweating

Sheng Ya Sage-like Sheng Di Huang, Shu Tonify Blood, Tonifies `7

Tang Healing Di Huang, Bai Shao, Qi, Clears Heat from
Decoction Chuan Xiong, Dang Blood
Gui, Ren Shen, Huang
Qi
Shi Quan Da All Inclusive Gret Shu Di Huang, Bai Warms and tonifies qi 12
Bu Tang Tonifying Shao, Dang Gui, and blood.
Decoction Chuan Xiong, Ren
Shen, Bai Zhu, Fu
Ling, Zhi Gan Cao,
Rou Gui, Huang Qi, Da
Zao, Sheng Jiang

Si Jun Zi Tang Four Gentlemen Ren Shen, Bai Shu Perfect template for 4
Decoction Atractylodes, Fu Ling, receive, mix, propose;
Gan Cao Tonifies SP Qi

Si Ni San 4 Oppositions, Chai Hu, Zhi Shi, Bai Vents Pathogenic 4

Frigid Shao, Gan Cao Influences, Releases
Extremities LR Qi Constraint,
Powder Spreads LR Qi,
Regulates the SP

Si Wu Tang 4 Things Shu Di Huang, Tang Tonifies LR Blood, 4

Kwei, Chuan Xiong, Regulates the LR
Bai Shao
Su He Xiang Liquid Styrax Pill Xi Jiao, Zhu Sha, So Warms and opens the 16
Wan He Xiang, She Xiang, orifices, promotes the
An Xi Xiang, Bing Pian, movement of Qi,
Ru Xiang, Mu Xiang, transforms turbidity
Tan Xiang, Chen
Xiang, Ding Xiang, Bi
Ba, Bai Zhu, Xiang Fu,
He Zi

Suan Zao Ren Ziziphus Combo Suan Zao Ren, Fu Nourish Blood, Calm 5
Tang Ling, Chuan Xiong, Zhi Spirit, Clear Heat
Mu, Gan Cao

Suo Quan Shut the Sluice Yi Zhi Ren, Shan Yao, Tonify KI Yang, 3
Wan Wu Yao Astringe Bladder,
Warms the KI, dispels
cold, shuts off urinary
frequency, stops
leakage

Tai Shan Pan Powder that Ren Shen, Huang Qi, Tonify SP qi and 11
Shi San Gives Stability to Xu Duan, Huang Qin, blood. Calm and
Mt. Tai Chuan Xiong, Shu Di stabilize fetus
Huang, Bai Shao, Bai
Zhu, Zhi Gan Cao, Sha
Ren, Nuo Mi
Tian Ma Gou Gastrodia Tian Ma, Gou Teng, Shi Calms LR, Clears 11
Teng Yin Uncaria Drink Jui Ming, Huang Qin, Wind, Clears Heat,
Zhi Zi, Du Zhong, Sang Sinks LR Yang,
Ji Sheng, Niu Xi, Ye Invigorates Blood,
Jiao Teng, Fu Shen, Yi Tonifies LR and KI Yin
Mu Cao

Tian Wang Bu Heavenly Ren Shen, Mai Men Tonifies HT Yin, HT 14

Xin Dan Emperor, Dong, Wu Wei Zi, Tang Blood, HT Qi, KI Yin,
Ginseng and Kwei, Bai Zi Ren, Suan LU Yin, Calms and
Ziziphus Combo Zao Ren, Fu Ling, nourishes spirit
Yuan Zhi, Tian Men
Dong, Xuan Shen,
Sheng Di Huang, Jie
Geng, Dan Shen, Zhu
Sha

Xi Jiao Di Rhinoceros and Xi Jiao, Sheng Di Transforms Heat in 4

Huang Tang Rehmannia Huang, Mu Dan Pi, Chi the Xue level
Combination Shao
Xiang Sha Liu Saussurea and Ren Shen, Fu Ling, Bai Tonifies SP Qi, 8
Jin Si Tang Amomum Six Zhu, Gan Cao, Chen Transforms Damp,
Gentlemen Pi, Ban Xia, Sha Ren, Moves SP Qi,
Mu Xiang Harmonizes ST,
Alleviates Digestive
Pain

Xiao Chai Hu Minor Chai Hu, Ban Xia, Shao Yang disorder, 7
Tang Bupleurum Sheng Jiang, Huang pathogen 1/2 inside
Decoction Qin, Ren Shen, Da 1/2 outside. Middle
Zao, Gan Cao not harmonized.

Xiao Qing Minor Bluegreen Ma Huang, Xi Xin, Ban Tai yang invasion of 7
Long Tang Dragon Xia, Wu Wei Zi, Gui wind-cold with
Decoction Zhi, Sheng Jiang, Bai underlying yang
Shao deficiency and
copious phlegm
Xiao Yao San Free and Easy Chai Hu, Bo He, Bai Spreads LR Qi, 8
Wanderer, Tang Shao, Tang Kwei, Gan Tonifies LR Blood,
Kwei and Cao, Bai Zhu, Fu Ling, Transforms Damp,
Bupleurum Sheng Jiang Tonifies SP Qi
Combo

Xie Bai San Clear the Sang Bai Pi, Di Gu Pi, Drains LU heat and 4
Nutritive Qi Gan Cao, Jing Mi clears wheezing

Xiong Gui TK & Gelatin Chuang Xiong, Dang Tonify Blood, Stop 7
Jiao Ai Tang Combo Gui, Bai Shao, Sheng bleeding
Di Huang, Ai Ye, E
Jiao, Gan Cao
Xue Fu Zhu Yu Blood Mansion, Tang Kwei, Chuan Invigorates Blood, 12
Tang Persica and Xiong, Sheng Di Moves Blood
Carthamus Huang, Chi Shao, Chai Stagnation, Spreads
Combo Hu, Zhi Ke, Gan Cao, LR Qi, Unblocks the
Tao Ren, Dan Shen, Channels
Hong Hua, Niu Xi, Jie
Geng

Yang Xin Tan Astragalus and Huang Qi, Ren Shen, Tonifies: HT Qi, HT 13
Ziziphus, Heart Zhi Gan Cao, Fu Shen, Yang, HT Blood,
Nourishing Tang Kwei, Chuan Nourishes the Spirit
Powder Xiong, Bai Zi Ren,
Suan Zao Ren, Yuan
Zhi, Wu Wei Zi, Gui
Zhi, Sheng Jiang, Da
Zao

Yi Guan Jian Linking Sha Shen, Mai Men Tonifies LR, LU, KI Yin 6
Decoction, Tang Dong, Shu Di Huang,
Kwei and Gou Ji Zi, Tang Kwei,
Glehnia Chuan Lian Zi
Yin Qiao San Honeysuckle Jin Yin Hua, Lian Qiao, Wei level, wind-heat 10
and Forsythia Niu Bang Zi, Dan Dou invasion
Chi, Bo He, Jie Geng,
Jing Jie, Dan Zhu Ye,
Lu Gen, Gan Cao

Yin Zhong Receptive Shan Yao, Ren Shen, Tonifies SP Qi, 4

Wan Middle Soup Bai Zhu, Gan Cao Tonifies SP, KI, ST
Yin, Astringes (binds)

You Gui Yin Restore the Shu Di Huang, Shan Tonifies KI Yang, 11
Right Zhu Yu, Shan Yao, Rou Warms Yang,
Gui, Fu Zi, Tu Si Zi, Du Replenishes Jing,
Zhong, Lu Jiao Jiao, Tonifies blood
Gou Qi Zi, Dang Gui,
Zhi Gan Cao

Yu Nu Jian Jade Woman, Shi Gao, Zhi Mu, Mai Clear ST heat, Tonify 5
Rehmannia and Men Dong, Shu Di ST Yin, Tonify KI Yin
Gypsum Combo Huang, Huai Niu Xi

Yu Ping Fen Jade Huang Qi, Bai Zhu, Tonifies Wei Qi, 3
Sang Windscreen, Fang Feng Stabilizes the exterior,
Astragalus and stops sweating
Siler Formula
Yu Zhu San Jade Candle Dang Gui, Chuan Tonifies Blood, Moves 7
Powder Xiong, Shu Di Huang, stagnant blood
Bai Shao, Da Huang,
Mang Xiao, Gan Cao

Yunnan Pai Chinese military secret Stops Bleeding and 1

Yao strongly suspected of Moves Congealed
being San Qi Blood
Notoginseng

Zhen Qing Clear Sleep Chai Hu, Zhi Shi, Bai Moves LR and LU Qi 7
Mian An Tang Peaceful Pillow Shao, Gan Cao, Xi Xin, Constraint
Ge Gen, Sha Shen

Zhen Wu Tang True Warrior Fu Zi, Fu Ling, Bai Zhu, Sheng

"KI Qi not
Jiang,
firm"
Bai
Water
Shao 5
Soup overflowing, Tonifies:
Heart Yang, Kidney
Yang, Spleen Yang;
Drain Damp,
Transform Damp
Zhen Zhu Mu Mother of Pearl Zhen Zhu Mu, Xi Jiao, Tonifies Yin and 9
Wan Pill Dang Gui, Shu Di Blood, Sedates the
Huang, Suan Zao Ren, Heart, Calms the
Bai Zi Ren, Fu Shen, Spirit
Ren Shen, Chen Xiang

Zhi Bai Di AnePhello Six Shu Di Huang, Ze Xie, Tonifies Yin, Clears KI 8
Huang Wan Flavors, Shan Zhu Yu, Mu Dan Fire, Clears Damp-
Anemorrhena Pi, Shan Yao, Fu Ling, Heat in the lower jiao
Phellodendron Zhi Mu, Huang Bai
and Rehmannia
Pill

Zhi Gan Cao Honey Fried Gui Zhi, Sheng Jiang, Tonifies: HT Qi, HT 9
Tang Licorice Da Zao, Zhi Gan Cao, Yin, HT Blood, LU Qi,
Decoction E Jiao, Mai Men Dong, LU Yin, Clears Heat in
Ren Sheng, Sheng Di Blood, Adjusts Ying
Huang, Huo Ma Ren and Wei

Zhu Sha An Cinnabar Pill to Zhu Sha, Huang Lian, Sedates the Heart, 4
Shen Wan Calm the Spirit Dang Gui, Zhi Gan Cao Calms the Spirit,
Drains Fire, Tonifies
Yin

Zuo Gui Yin Restore the Left Shu Di Huang, Shan Tonify KI Yin, Tonify 6
Kidney Zhu Yu, Shan Yao, Gou Jing, Tonify LR Yin
Decoction Qi Zi, Fu Ling, Zhi Gan
Cao
Huo Xiang Agastache Huo Xiang, Hou Po, Zi Release Exterior, 13
Zheng Qi San Powder to Su Ye, Fu Ling, Ban Transform Damp
Rectify the Qi Xia, Chen Pi, Bai Zhu, Turbidity
Bai Zhi, Jie Geng, Du
Fu Pi, Ga Cao, Da Zao,
Sheng Jiang
 5 Element Indications Comments
high fever, irritability and
restlessness, delirious
speech, impaired
consciousness, coma due
to windstroke, childhood
convulsions with a similar
presentation, stiffness of
the tongue and frigid
extremities

Fire (earth), Earth (fire)

Anybody!, Earth, Wood pallid or sallow

complexion, palpitations
with anxiety that may be
continuous, reduced
appetite, shortness of
breath, laconic speech,
easily fatigued
extremities,
lightheadedness and/or
vertigo, pale tongue with
white coating, pulse which
is either thin and frail or
large, deficient and
without strength
Metal, Metal (Water) dry mouth and throat,
chronic sore throat,
hoarse voice, loss of
voice, coughing with scant
yellow or bloody sputum,
wheezing, hot palms and
soles, night sweats

yangming high fever with profuse

sweating and an aversion
to heat, red face, severe
thirst and irritability,
flooding forceful or
slippery rapid pulse. May
also include headache,
toothache, or bleeding of
the sums and nose.
Fire (Water), Metal palpitations (maybe
(Fire), Fire (Metal), continuous or only at
Water (Fire) rest), shallow dream
disturbed sleep, night
sweats, forgetfulness,
disorientation

Earth, Metal (Earth), feeling of something

Earth (Metal) caught in throat than can
neither be swallowed nor
rejected, a stifling
sensation in chest and
hypochondria, moist or
greasy white tongue coat,
wiry slow or wiry slippery
pulse, may be coughing
and vomiting

Fire, Earth, Fire (earth), epigastric focal distention,

Earth (fire) fullness and tightness with
very slight or no pain, dry
heaves or frank vomiting,
borborygmus with
diarrhea, reduced
appetite, thin yellow and
greasy tongue coat, wiry
rapid pulse
Metal (Water), Water shortness of breath,
(Metal) spontaneous sweating,
occasional chills and
feverish

Earth, Wood, Metal intermittent fever (that

worsens upon exertion),
spontaneous sweating,
aversion to cold, a thirst
for warm beverages,
shortness of breath,
laconic speech, tendency
to curl up, weak limbs,
shiny pale complexion,
loose and watery stools,
pale tongue with thin
white coat, flooding
deficient pulse in general,
or deficient rootless pulse
in middle right position

Beyond CF. If chronic copious, purulent and foul

Earth/Metal, probably smelling nasal discharge,
yangming nasal obstruction,
dizziness, frontal
headache, a normal or
yellow tongue coating and
a floating, rapid pulse

Wood/Fire (GB/TE) irritability, constipation,

fullness in chest,
intercostal stiffness, heavy
feeling, digestive upset,
bitter taste in mouth,
severely unsettled spirit
(angry, palpitations),
urinary difficulty
Wood, Wood (metal) constraining and clumping
of LR qi with
hypochondriac pain and
alternating fever and
chills, also for pms or
dysmenorrhea

palpitations, insomnia,
tinnitus, diminished acuity
of hearing and vision,
seizures

mild fever and slight chills

without sweating,
headache, stuffy nose, a
thin white tongue coat,
floating pulse
Water steaming bone disorder
with afternoon tidal fever,
night sweats,
spontaneous emissions,
irritability, a sensation of
heat and pain in the knees
and legs which is
sometimes accompanied
by weakness

Beyond CF severe constipation and

flatulence, focal distention
and abdominal fullness,
abdominal pain which
increases upon pressure,
a tense and firm
abdomen, a dry yellow or
dry black tongue coat with
prickles and a submerged,
excessive pulse. In severe
cases there may be tidal
fevers, delirious speech
and profuse sweating
from the palms and the
soles.

Beyond CF. for exterior cold with

interior heat characterized
by severe fever and chills
without sweating, body
aches, irritability, and a
floating, tight, pulse. May
also be used for acute
floating edema.
Water, Earth, Metal steaming bone disorder,
cough with sticky sputum
that is difficult to
expectorate, emaciation,
tinnitus, dizziness, tidal
fever, dry mouth and
parched throat, heat in the
five centers, night sweats

Wood, Fire cold hands and feet, scant

menses, dry skin, dizzy
when standing up,
aversion to cold and
drafts, light exercise helps
a lot. Cold pain in the
joints.

Wood, Water thea: restlessness, malar

flush, 5 palm heat, thirst
and dryness, light-
headedness or dizziness,
scant menses, pain and
weakness and brittleness
of low back and/or legs,
foot and heel pain from
"lack of cushion" around
bone. Bensky: pain and
weak low back and legs,
reduced menstrual flow,
foot and heel pain
Wood, Earth blood def. Symptoms with
weak spleen and warm
middle jiao. Very good for
morning sickness and
restless fetus. Good for
blood def. People who
lose their appetite or feet
nauseous on blood tonics.

Fire, Water irritability with a sensation This formula

of heat in the chest, thirst promotes urination
with a desire to drink cold without injuring the
beverages, red face, yin, drains fire
sores around the mouth, without encroaching
red tongue, rapid pulse. on the stomach. It
Also for dark scanty rough conducts heat out of
and painful urination, the heart (not just
clearly visible blood in clearing it)
urine
 stiff tongue and speech
impairment

Water Wood Fire Metal heavy and painful

Earth. sensations at fixed
locations in the lower back
and lower extremities
accompanied by
weakness and stiffness,
an aversion to cold and
attraction to warmth,
palpitations, shortness of
breath, a pale tongue with
white coat and thin weak
slow pulse. There may
also be parenthesis or
numbness.

Earth, Metal coughing with copious,

white sputum that is easily
expectorated focal
distention and a stifling
sensation in the chest and
diaphragm, palpitations,
nausea or vomiting,
dizziness, swollen tongue
with white, thick, greasy
coat, slippery pulse
Metal, Metal (Water) thirst, phlegm in LU that is
difficult to expectorate,
upper burner diabetes,
wasting and thirsting

Water, Fire menopausal symptoms

including hypertension,
menstrual disturbances
(amenhorrea) hot flashes,
sweating, nervousness,
fatigue, lassitude,
depression, irritability,
insomnia, palpitations,
urinary frequency, other
chronic disorders with
signs of KI Yin and Yang
def and Fire from def.

Water (Wood), Wood restlessness, weak brittle

(Water) low back or legs, dryness
and thirst, dry nails and
hair, graying hair, loss of
hair, dry eyes and/or
blurry vision, dizziness,
insomnia, dream-
disturbed sleep, falling
sensation before sleep,
malar flush, night sweats,
5-palm heat
Fire hysteria, crying spells,
moaning, restless sleep,
melancholy, nervous
sweating, hyper-labile,
loss of self control, lack of
composure, night sweats,
all symptoms worsen with
menses

Water early or late menstrual

periods that are scanty
and light-colored due to KI
deficiency. Accompanied
by light-headedness,
tinnitus, low back pain that
can be severe, urinary
frequency at night, soft
stools, and a submerged,
frail pulse. May have
distention and sensation
of prolapse in lower jiao.
Fire (earth), Earth (fire), forgetfulness, palpitations
Small Intestine (with or without anxiety),
insomnia, dream
disturbed sleep, anxiety
and phobia, feverishness,
withdrawal, reduced
appetite, pallid and wan
complexion, a pale tongue
with thin white coat and
thin frail pulse. Chronic
bleeding, early periods
with copious pale blood or
prolonged almost
continuous periods with
little flow

Fire, Water mild, persistent uterine Designed to treat

bleeding of purple or dark Blood Stagnation
blood during pregnancy during pregnancy.
accompanied by It's mild so that it
abdominal pain that doesn't threaten the
increases with pressure. well-being of the
Also for immobile masses fetus.
in the lower abdomen with
pain and tenderness,
abdominal spasms and
tension, amenorrhea with
abdominal distention and
pain, dysmenorrhea,
retention of the lochia.
Choppy pulse.

Water, Fire
Fire fever and chills, 3 Types of Gui Zhi
unrelieved by sweating, Tang People: 1.
headache, aversion to Thermostat Stuck
wind, stiff neck, nasal On High. This
congestion, dry heaves, person is seductive
no particular thirst, thing and engaging. They
white and moist tongue come into your
coat, floating pulse either space and try to
moderate or frail. Stage warm things up.
fright, shyness, sexual They can't shift with
shame, embarrassment, you when you try to
intimacy issues cool things down.
They will panic and
try to seduce you
back up to the level
of warmth they're
comfortable in. They
are managing their
ying and wei
problem by trying to
make it seem
appropriate to be
pouring out excess
warmth. This person
needs more Bai
Shao than Gui Zhi.
2. Thermostat Stuck
On Low: These
people are fine
when you keep your
distance and are too
shy. They look for
love over the
internet. When
things start to heat
up and they have to
extend more, it's
irritability with sensation of
heat in the chest,
insomnia, palpitations with
anxiety
beyond cf

irritability, restlessness,
severe continuous
palpitations, coldness of
the lower limbs, great
difficulty falling asleep due
to HT/KI disharmony.

Water overflow of water,

aversion to cold, cold
extremities, scanty
urination, edema of legs,
abdominal distention, sore
low back
Metal (wood) fever, red face, heat in
palms and soles, dry
mouth and tongue, large,
deficient pulse
Metal, Metal (earth) same as bu zhong yi qi
tang + LU yang grasping
deficiency symptoms. Or,
to prevent miscarriage
from months 4-5, where
there's some weight and
SP qi is too deficient to
handle it.

Earth, Metal (earth) same as Liu Jin Si Tang

but with extra phlegm in
LU, KI/HT axis.
Fire (metal), Fire, chronic cough with sparse
Metal, Metal (fire) sputum that is difficult to
expectorate, shortness of
breath, spontaneous
sweating, dry mouth and
tongue, pale, red tongue
with a dry, thin coat,
deficient rapid or deficient
thin pulse

Earth (wood), Wood irritability, short temper

(earth), Fire, esp. Triple with possible tidal fever
Heater and sweating, red eyes,
dry mouth, palpitations,
lower abdominal pressure,
difficult painful urination,
increased menstrual flow
or uterine bleeding

Earth, Small Intestine reduced appetite with

difficulty in digestion,
bloating and focal
distention of the
epigastrium and
abdomen, loose and
watery diarrhea, greasy
slightly yellow tongue
coat, deficient frail pulse
Water, occasionally Low back pain, weak
Fire lower extremities, cold
sensation in the lower half
of the body, tense lower
abdomen, pale, swollen
tongue with thin white and
moist coat, empty or frail
pulse which is submerged
and faint in 3rd position.
May be irritable to the
point of having difficulty
lying down and will
breathe most comfortably
while leaning against
something. Either urinary
difficulty with edema or
excessive urination,
sometimes to the point of
incontinence

Earth, Earth (fire), diarrhea with watery stool,

Earth (metal) nausea and vomiting, no
particular thirst, loss of
appetite, abdominal pain,
pale tongue with white
coat, submerged, thin
pulse

Earth, Metal (Earth), loss of appetite, nausea or

Earth (Metal) vomiting, focal distention
and stifling sensation in
chest and epigastrium,
coughing of copious thin
and white sputum
Wood pain in hypochondria,
headache, dizziness, red
and sore eyes, hearing
loss, swelling in the ears,
bitter taste in mouth,
irritability, short temper,
wiry rapid and forceful
pulse, red tongue with
yellow coat. Difficult and
painful urination with
sensation of heat in
urethra, swollen and
pruritic external genitalia,
foul smelling leucorrhea.
Short menstrual cycle,
blood color reddish purple

Water sore and weak low back, This formula has an

lightheadedness, vertigo, elegant construction
tinnitus, diminished where 3 herbs are
hearing, night sweats, tonifying yin and 3
spontaneous and herbs are
nocturnal emissions, red counterbalancing
tongue with little coat, them.
rapid, thin pulse. Also hot
palms and soles, chronic
dry and sore throat,
toothache or wasting and
thirsting disorder

Any CF, no one is fever and chills (chills

immune predominant) without
sweating, headache,
generalized body aches,
wheezing, a thin white
tongue coat and floating
tight pulse.
Metal, Earth coughing and spitting of
saliva, wheezing,
shortness of breath, a dry
and uncomfortable
sensation in the throat,
dry mouth

Wood (water), Water dry eyes, weak blurry

(wood) vision, floaters. All signs of
KI yin def. Restlessness,
weak back and knees of
the hot and brittle variety,
night sweats, five palm
heat, afternoon heat,
unrooted sexual arousal,
thirst, possibly thirsting
and wasting, impotence
and premature
ejaculation, malar flush

Metal, Fire spontaneous sweating

that is worse at night,
irregular palpitations,
easily startled and prone
to hysteria, prone to odd
outbursts, agitation and
tiredness from vitality
leading out to surface

Water doom, KI yang deficiency

symptoms
Water, Wood? premature graying, hair
loss, lose teeth,
spontaneous and
nocturnal emissions,
soreness and weakness
in low black and knees

Water, Wood dry eyes with diminished

visual acuity, photophobia,
tearing when exposed to
drafts, painful eyes

Earth, beyond cf
beyond cf

beyond cf
Metal, Water, Earth chronic coughing and
wheezing, thick yellow
sputum, coughing of pus
and blood, a sensation of
heat and irritability in the
chest, facial edema,
gradual emaciation, a
purple tongue with either
a thin and white or a
greasy, thin and yellow
tongue coat, floating, def.
pulse, esp on distal
position.
Metal, maybe Earth coughing, wheezing,
fullness in chest, inability
to lie down.

Fire, Metal consumptive disorders

with palpitations,
forgetfulness,
feverishness, reduced
appetite, fatigue,
shortness of breath,
dyspnea on exertion,
weight loss, dry skin, dry
mouth and throat. Also
used for chronic, non-
healing sores. Today two
to three times the dosage
of Dang Shen is usually
substituted for Ren Shen
Metal, anyone

Water, Fire frequent urination

(sometimes to the point of
incontinence, urine the
color of rice water (gray
and cloudy) sometimes
accompanied by
spermatorrhea.
Disorientation,
forgetfulness, pale tongue
with white coat, thing,
slow frail pulse

Metal, Metal (earth) dry throat, thirst, hacking

cough with scanty sputum
Earth/Metal loose stools or diarrhea,
reduced appetite,
weakness of extremities,
weight loss, distention and
stifling sensation in chest
and epigastrium, pallid
and wan complexion

Fire (metal), Fire, chronic cough with sparse This was designed
Metal, Metal (fire) sputum that is difficult to for heat injuring the
expectorate, shortness of basal or source qi.
breath, spontaneous Now treats various
sweating, dry mouth and types of heart
tongue, pale, red tongue disease. This
with a dry, thin coat, formula treats acute
deficient rapid or deficient collapse.
thin pulse, mitro-valve
prolapse

Wood, Earth constant ache in low

abdomen with occurs
either during or just after
menstruation and which
responds to pressure. The
menstrual flow is scanty
and pale. The patient has
a pale complexion, is
lethargic and withdrawn
Wood, Earth coughing, reduced
appetite, spermatorrhea,
weak lower extremities.
May include sores that
refuse to heal or
continuous spotting from
uterine bleeding.
Commonly used for qi and
blood def. With
predominance of def. Qi
tending toward cold. Used
for consumptive disorders.

Earth pallid complexion, low and

soft voice, reduced
appetite, loose stools,
weakness in limbs.
Tongue body is pale and
pulse is thin/frail

Wood cold fingers and toes

(although the body is
warm) sometimes
accompanied by a
sensation of irritability and
fullness in the chest and
epigastrium, red tongue
with yellow coat, wiry
pulse. May also be
abdominal pain and/or
severe diarrhea

Anybody!, Wood, Heart dizziness, blurred vision,

Mediator lusterless complexion and
nails, generalized muscle
tension, irregular
menstruation with little
flow or amenorrhea,
periumbilical and lower
abdominal pain, pale
tongue and a thin and wiry
or thin and choppy pulse.
Also used for
menorrhagia, hard
abdominal masses with
recurrent pain, restless
fetus disorder or
lochioschesis with firm
and painful abdomen and
sporadic fever and chills
 sudden collapse, loss of
consciousness and
clenched jaws, fullness,
pain and a sensation of
cold in the chest and
abdomen which may
signal the impending
sudden loss of
consciousness or coma;
abdominal pain and focal
distention in the chest, an
urge to vomit and
defecate without doing
either, which in severe
cases can lead to sudden
loss of consciousness or
coma. All are
accompanied by a pale
complexion, purple lips,
excessive mucus and
saliva, cold extremities

Fire, Wood (Fire), Fire serious insomnia,

(Wood) irritability and
restlessness, sensation of
heat in chest, night
sweats, dry mouth,
palpitations

Water, Earth frequent, clear and

prolonged urination or
enuresis

Water, Earth, Wood, habitual or threatened

Any CF Pregnant, miscarriage, fatigue, loss
Deficient and in danger of appetite, weak back,
of miscarriage pallor
Wood (water), Water headache, dizziness,
(wood) vertigo, tinnitus, blurred
vision, sensation of heat
rushing to the head,
insomnia with dream
disturbed sleep, red
tongue, wiry rapid pulse.
In severe cases there may
be numbness, twitching
and spasms in the
extremities, or hemiplegia

Fire, Water, Water irritability, palpitations with The author of this

(Fire) and maybe anxiety, fatigue, insomnia formula reported
(Metal), Fire (water) with restless sleep, that it came to him in
maybe (metal), Metal, inability to think or a dream from the
Metal (fire) (water), concentrate for even short emperor of heaven.
Metal (water) (fire) periods of time, nocturnal
emissions, forgetfulness,
dry stools, red tongue with
little coating, thin rapid
pulse. May be mouth and
tongue sores, low grade
fever and night sweats

beyond cf
Earth, possibly SI For SP & ST Def with
Damp-Cold Stagnating in
Middle Jiao: reduced
appetite with feeling of
surfeit after eating very
little, belching, abdominal
distention or pain,
sometimes vomiting and
diarrhea

Wood, Earth, Triple alternating fever and

Heater (generally a chills, dry throat, bitter or
combo of all three) sour taste in the mouth,
dizziness, irritability,
sensation of fullness in
the chest and
hypochondria , heartburn,
nausea and vomiting,
reduced appetite, a thin
white tongue coat and a
wiry pulse

Fire, Metal, Gall fever and chills (chills

Bladder predominate) without
sweating, coughing,
wheezing, sputum that is
copious, white, stringy
and difficult to
expectorate, a stifling
sensation in the chest, a
generalized sensation of
heaviness and body
aches, no particular thirst,
a moist tongue coating
and a floating, tight pulse.
In severe cases, there
may be floating edema or
considerable difficulty in
breathing when lying
down.
Wood (earth), Earth hypochondriac pain,
(wood) headache, vertigo, bitter
taste in mouth, dry mouth
and throat, fatigue,
reduced appetite, pale-red
tongue, wiry deficient
pulse. May be alternating
chills and fever and
irregular menstruation or
distended breasts

Metal, beyond cf

Wood, Metal bleeding too much from

blood deficiency
symptoms. Menstruation
never ends, mid-cycle
spotting, potential
miscarriage
Wood, Water, Fire, pain in chest and
Metal hypochondria, chronic
stubborn headache with a
fixed piercing quality,
chronic incessant
hiccough, choking
sensation when drinking,
dry heaves, depression or
low spirits accompanied
by sensation of warmth in
the chest, palpitations,
insomnia, restless sleep,
irritability, extreme mood
swings, evening tidal
fever, dark red tongue,
dark spots on sides of
tongue, dark or purplish
lips, complexion or sclera
and choppy, wiry tight
pulse

Fire weak heart, low energy,

low spunk, laconic, sad,
not comfortable, may
have palpitations, can't
find words

Wood (metal), Metal hypochondriac and chest

(Wood), Metal, Wood pain, epigastric and
impersonating abdominal distention, dry
and parched mouth and
throat, acid regurgitation,
red and dry tongue, thin
frail or deficient wiry pulse
Beyond CF fever and chills unrelieved
by sweating, headache,
aversion to wind, stiff
neck, nasal congestion,
dry heaves, no particular
thirst, a thin white and
moist tongue coat, floating
pulse that is either
moderate or frail. May be
used for a similar
presentation in patients
recovering from serious
illness or childbirth

Earth, Earth (Water) fatigue, lack of appetite,

loose stools, shortness of
breath, dryness

Water, Elderly exhaustion from long-term

illness, aversion to cold,
coolness of extremities,
impotence,
spermatorrhea, aching
and weak low back and
knees, infertility, loose
stools, incontinence,
edema of lower limbs

Earth (Water), Water insatiable hunger,

(Earth) unrooted desire,
confusion between food
and sex, bleeding gums,
loose teeth, thirst, hot
frontal headaches, greed,
scant urination, low back
pain

Earth, Metal, Triple aversion to drafts,

Heater spontaneous sweating,
recurrent colds, shiny pale
complexion, pale tongue
with white coat, floating,
deficient and soft pulse
Wood amenorrhea due to blood
stasis and excess heat,
blood deficiency with
intense heat manifested
as hard stools or
constipation

bleeding (inside or
outside, emotional,
physical or spiritual)

Metal (Wood), Wood

(Metal), Possibly Earth

Water, Fire, Earth abdominal pain which is

aggravated by cold,
urinary difficulty and deep
aching and heaviness in
the extremities. There
may also be generalized
edema, loose stools,
dizziness, heavy
sensation in the head,
palpitations, coughing,
vomiting, pale or dark
swollen tongue with
toothmarks, a white
slippery tongue coating
and a submerged, thin
and forceless pulse
Fire irritability, restless sleep,
occasional palpitations
with anxiety, dizziness

Water, could be Triple night sweats, dry mouth

Heater and tongue, large pulse
only at the rear position,
urinary difficulty, low back
pain from damp-heat in
low burner

Fire, Metal, Fire palpitations with anxiety,

(metal), Metal (fire) irritability, insomnia,
emaciation, shortness of
breath, constipation, dry
mouth and throat, pale
shiny tongue and
consistently irregular
pulse, slow irregular or
thin faint and forceless

insomnia, continuous
palpitations, sensation of
irritability and heat in the
chest, desire to vomit
without result, dream-
disturbed sleep

Water, Water (Wood), light-headedness, vertigo,

Wood (Water) tinnitus, sore and weak
low back and legs,
spontaneous and
nocturnal emissions,
spontaneous and night
sweats, dry mouth and
throat, thirst
Anyone! nausea, vomiting,
diarrhea, fever ad chills,
digestive pain, disgusting
or oppressed feeling in
chest, borborygmus,
aversion to food, flu-eye,
frontal headache
 Energetic Must Have Might Have
Serious stage in the progression of a warm febrile uneasiness and obscured sensory
disease. Pathogenic heat sinks into the PC and tendency to be perception, including
disturbs the spirit, causing the indications listed startled, confusion, speech problems
above. This presentation may also present when irregular heartbeat or and/or epilepsy and/or
vigorous internal heat congeals the fluids into very deficient HT pulse coma, drooling, hand
phlegm. The turbid phlegm veils the sensory orifices and soles of feet
and impairs the consciousness. sweating,
inappropriate giggling,
disorientation, difficulty
connecting here and
now, history of shock

This formula is for shock which causes the SI to go pallid or sallow

out. Something happens and this is the person who complexion,
instead of fainting starts laughing/giggling hysterically. palpitations with
Or taboos, sexual or scatological humor. This can be anxiety that may be
acute or chronic. It seems to happen to teenage girls. continuous, reduced
When this happens to the HT, the SI grabs whatever appetite, shortness of
it can. There' s a fear "stop fear" that comes up when breath, laconic
the SI realizes the HT isn't there. It panics and tries to speech, easily-fatigued
grab something quickly and then sticks to it. Common extremities, light-
for
Thissmall
is Sikids, Chinese
Wu Tang & SiRitalin.
Jun Si Bees
Tang. look
The like
queenpeas,
Tang the 4 BIGS: same as headedness
sweatshirts
Kwei and her retinue + The king Ren Shen and his in yangming stage
look like the boogeyman. It's like living
confusion.
retinue. This fills a person with blood and qi. This is
for people who you feel like you wish they were made
of two tea bags rather than one. It's for pure
deficiency. Do not give to someone with constraint
Tonifies LU yin, KI yin, LR blood. Bai He: main herb plum pit sensation in
that tonifies LU Yin & calms spirit. the throat, stuffy,
smothered feeling in
the chest and/or
abdomen, nausea,
coughing (with clear,
loose phlegm in the
chest)

This is the second stage of hate disorder: Qi level. CONFLICTING HOT feel better after
You're at WAR. Gypsum: hunger appetite PO & ST. AND COLD SIGNS. vomiting; sour yucky
Animal passion and appetite. Rage and warlike Feeling of icky, lumpy, burps; intestinal
behavior coming from not getting what you want. yuckiness just below parasites, esp.
Hunger unfed. Keep the hunger, but use it to hunt the heart, intestinal ghiardia; some
better, in service for her family. Zhi Mu: PO & KI: gurgling; loose stools; confusion around HT's
animal passion + lust. Possession by your own lower nausea; everything desire, with two
burner. If you don't give me what I want I will worse with eating feelings equally strong
overpower you to get it. When you want something and contradictory
and don't get it this usually leads to turning to
darkness. Don't. This makes you highly regarded by
God. Transform from wasting fire to purifying fire.
Diminishes nervousness by encouraging tiredness, taciturn,
introspection bored, collapsed;
prolapse, e.g. uterine
eyelids, perineum,
etc.; weird Epstein-
Barr type intermittent
low grade fevers, poor
appetite, constipation
or loose, watery stools;
short of breath on
exertion, shiny pale
complexion

Sweet, Stuck Bloat, Rebellious ST Qi, Deficient. ACUTE stuffy

Some say it's for LR qi stagnation because main nose/sinuses
symptom is plum pit syndrome, which can be from LR
qi stag. 9x out of 10 the thing stuck in your throat is a
constrained shout. If so you will have other LR signs.
When there's a singing, yellow person thinking, "hope
you choke," while being too nice, use this. You're not
expressing, transforming. It literally feels more gooey
than LR qi stag, which feels scratchy, hard or tight.
Virtue: High diplomacy and tact. They're not
sacrificing their own comfort or yours.

The SI connects inner and outer heaven in 3 ways: cold hands and feet,
sensory orifices, language/communication, serving as sensation of irritability
liaison between the heart and other fu. You can't be in and fullness in the
a no brainer place with SI sorting. The SI connects chest possible
the ST, LI and other fu so that they're able to have irregular digestive
consciousness, thinking. This is Upright Branch or disturbance, dislike of
Windows on SI. This is intense, there's some icky seatbelts
yuck, gunk. SI Heartbreak Soup: caught in the middle
between ego and divinity. Some else's divinity and my
divinity are saying two different things. Chills out one
that's hot, warms the cold. Focuses on just integrity.
Center. Closely related with Minor Bupleurum.
Don't reject inspiration! Deeply pretty formula. Tired
and restless both. Anxiety about stopping. The LU
needs Qi. Good for LU/KI where the person is too
tired to rest. Adrenaline buzz. Needs enough energy
to be able to go to sleep. Person running on empty.
Shallow, weak breath. Too tired to handle anything
that's not perfect.

EARTH: This is a SP Qi collapse situation. This

person dropped their membership in the "this or that"
club. They're just tired. This formula brings people
forward. You're tonifying the middle so that you can
raise clear yang. Common chronic fatigue formula--
helps lift out the pathogen, Epstein Barr and some
fibromyalgia. WOOD: Effective for LR Yang
deficiency. The person needs the rising initiative
energy. Good for pot headed vagueness. Can be a
deep despondency, depression, hopelessness.
Frustration of going nowhere and doing nothing and
having no inner loft. This person needs height, the
hun needs lift, vision and assertion.

This formula is for acute sinus fullness & stuffy nose. The FOUR BIGS: big
Not for a chronic condition. It's a very elegant mental pulse, big fever, big
level formula. It's usually added to something else. A thirst, big sweat
chronic condition isn't a result of Wei qi shutdown. It's
LU heat making fluid stagnate up and not descend or
from the intestines--damp in the intestines (6 gents to
transforms the intestinal damp).

Detoxifying some bad stuff--hold me down! This red tip of tongue sores on tongue,
condition arises from problems in all three of the yang (usually rest of tongue sensation of
stages of disease. Results from improper use of is also red) heat/burning in chest,
purgatives used before disease enters yangming may be sensation of
organ stage. Gui Zhi resolves problems in taiyang heat in intestines
level and helps relieve feeling of heaviness. Chai Hu and/or bladder, lin
and Huang Qin resolve shaoyang disorders and the illness (feels like
bottling up of the EPI, Da Huang resolves the peeing splinters),
yangming stage symptoms. Long Gu and Mu Li and bladder infection,
Qian Dan weigh down and calm the floating spirit. painful urination with
Ren Shen and Fu Ling strengthen the SP to ensure dark urine, chronic
it's not further injured. Ban Xia causes qi to descend prostatits, bitter taste
and Fu Ling transforms fluid disturbance and opens in mouth upon waking,
the diaphragm. Sheng Jiang and Da Zao regulate thirst, could be urinary
ying and wei. retention, blood in
urine, sarcasm,
bitterness, mind like a
labyrinth, too smart for
own heart
A lot of the time people use Xiao Yao San when they "pain" that fluctuates in achy joints that are
need this. This formula frees up the "doing" (qi) and response to external worse with exposure to
fills up the "being" (blood). Assertion and taking up climactic conditions cold and damp, esp.
personal space is strengthened. Ideal for qi for joints in the lower
constraint. The person may have ribcage constraint body, often worse at
and plum pit syndrome. Also, he/she needs some the beginning and end
blood tonification. This great for people with a of day. Beg of day is
constitutional 8/9 block. Feeling snagged, frustration. because of the excess
"It's a pain in the butt and I can't do it anyway." It (bi) and the need is
helps a person move through the gate of hope into from underlying
expansiveness. deficiency (getting
worn out), general
constitutional
weakness from qi and
blood deficiency.

Heart yang is ascending with a loss of balance phlegm anywhere,

between water and fire. coughing with copious,
white sputum, focal
distention, feeling of
stifling in chest,
nausea, vomiting,
palpitations, dizziness

This is a home remedy. Make a tea out of scallions. some sense of spilling, any/all kinds of
This is for right at the beginning of symptoms. A little e.g. laughing or crying, hyperlabile expression
nose running, body aches. This come in and lightly hyperlabile emotions, of emotion via
re-opens the Wei Qi. For a cold which is easily hysteria. Not able to body/face. Being
expelled. hold heart as container hysterical, crying
of emotional sensation spells, moaning,
restless sleep, night
sweats, melancholy,
nervous sweating,
hyper-labile, loss of
self control, lack of
composure, including
being touched by the
beauty of something to
the point of no longer
being able to be
present. All symptoms
worsen with menses
This is like Zhi Mu Di Huang Wan + Two Immortals. tiredness, fretful worry (not
Upward bounding of heat. Immediate--no more hot appetite/digestive obsessive worry),
flashes. It's not easy to digest. Tonify yin NOW. Clear disorders, poor insomnia,
heat NOW. Harnesses ascending qi NOW. This is for memory or poor restlessness,
a person with lots of heat. You can cook this with concentration or palpitations, night
honey instead of pig marrow, which is traditional. spaciness, esp. on an terrors, menstrual
empty stomach or gushing or spotting,
palpitations irregular or scant
periods, spontaneous
bruising, bruising
easily, recurring XII-I
block, eating to calm
down or fill the
emptiness of the heart,
hypoglycemia

This is for organ level yangming. Order the Qi: makes purple veins under fibroids, endometriosis
you have a bowel movement NOW. This formula is tongue, esp. in rear; and cysts (ovarian),
for when it's really stuck and you want to unstick it. congealed blood that menstrual clots,
Usually it's a quick situation (1 day or less) don't use is related to stabbing pain with
for very long. It's good to cut the crap and get things interpersonal wounds menses, amenorrhea,
moving. of trust or intimacy pain with intercourse,
betrayal of intimacy,
divorce, rape, sexual
abuse, painful and
suspicious or guarded
attitude towards
intimacy

This situation is no longer particularly gooey, because some symptoms in nymphomania,

heat is drying up the fluids. Basically, it's Ma Huang. both water and fire satyriasis, extreme
As the LU heats up the flesh (Earth) becomes with interpersonal sexual anxiety, KI yin
parched. ST blazing hot: outrageous appetite-EAT contact anxiety in fire or yang def.
EAT EAT. The minute something gets into the ST it as the root of the Symptoms (such as
incinerates it. Blazing. Big . Loud. Extroverted. symptom backache,
Bleeding gums from ST fire. Spontaneously bleed fro unrootedness), sexual
gums. In the formula Ma Huang and Shi Gao puts out dreams, inner and
he blowtorch and removes the igloo. You can have outer frontier gate
fever and chills simultaneously in yangming. Heating confusion, fear of
and heating and heating but cold still on the outside. love/merging/intimacy
that is like a fear of
death
This is for steaming bone disorder which manifests in issues of vulnerability taiyang wind-cold
the LU as a cough. KI yin is deficient and unable to and fear of exposure, invasion with sweating;
control the yang , which becomes hyperactive (fire and need for extra myriad nervous social
from deficiency) and leads to steaming bone disorder. warmth responses including
Fire is also attacking the LU where it produces a sweating, blushing,
cough with sticky sputum. blithering, unable to
speak; feeling cold,
especially being
susceptible to cold;
palpitations; sudden
dry mouth; running
piglet syndrome; pain
with intercourse,
sleeping with ghosts

Shy person with cold hands and feet. This formula clear signs of acute
increases substantiality, self-esteem and the ability to systemic hot toxic
connect. This helps a person to stay open when cold nastiness, strong
is around. It moves GB/LR + GB yang (courage). digestion
Opens and warms the axilla GB. This person is cold
on the outside and hot on the inside. All the love,
excitement is held tight. Burning in the heart. For cold
fingers: LR qi constraint (defined area). Whole hand:
blood def. Whole limb: yang def.

This is a KI Yin & LR Blood tonic. It builds KI Yang in Fatigue Leading to lethargy, collapse,
a steady, rooted way. It's about water moving to lack of motivation depression of the "life
wood. Fullness in the inner world. It's the life of blood is meaningless" sort,
and bone. Stillness, rootedness, comfortableness. loose watery stool,
Calm, steady strength that is soft and strong together. little appetite, shallow
Good for heel spurs in water cf marathon runners or slow breathing,
who need endurance replenishment. forceless breathing,
prolapse (often anal
prolapse or
hemorrhoids),
miscarriages (cause or
effect), shiny, pale
complexion (glows like
the moon), laconic
speech, weakness,
spontaneous sweating
Helps the middle burner produce substance and gunky stickiness in Metal: copious, pale or
comfort without extra misdirected churning. Blood def Earth/Metal, heaviness clear loose sputum in
+ LR/GB heat + dampness. This is one of the main (damp), self-disgust LU; coughing up
formulas for prevention of miscarriage and morning sputum with exertion;
sickness. It's also good for women with the stomach difficulty breathing with
flu while pregnant--helps them come back on track a smothered feeling in
digestively. Huang Qin is great for dampheat in the chest; heavy
uterus. Restless fetus: Huang Qin clears prickly damp burdened, dull grief;
heat--crankiness. Bai Zhu: helps the baby know loose sticky stool.
you're moving along (bouncing). Attachment to form
that has lost its value
probably because it's
comfortable, but not
inspiring; accumulation
of Life without
meaning. Earth:
nausea, bloating, lack
of appetite for good
food, worry and
circular thinking,
vomiting, feeling of
heaviness and fatigue;
More abundance than
splendor; That which
should have been
nourishment has
become a burden;
Endless inefficient
processing without
harvest.

Some say this is mainly for deficient heat in the heart dryness, irregular irregular heartbeat,
(heat eating up yin). Others say it's for full heat. Some pulse, deficient upper thirst, difficulty falling
say it's for blockage in the SI leading to heat. It treats burner, dry stool asleep, difficulty
all three. Mania. This formula brings the ability to sort concentrating, thin-
without going out of control and scorching skinned
himself/others. Sometimes people who are very very hypersensitivity, self-
smart are also very very lonely, because they believe disdain, hyper criticism
you have to meet their mind in order to have a heart of faults
connection. This formula breaks that picture. When
people have Heart Fire they might be nasty but the
hell inside of them is worse than the hell they're
giving you.
 GRRRR, irritability, hot
headedness, short
temper, red eyes, red
face, dry mouth,
feeling hot, intermittent
digestive disturbance,
usually including
hunger, menstrual
irregularity, increased
bright red menstrual
flow, breast distention,
headache,
palpitations, hot
flashes

This is for bi syndrome. Joint pain comes and goes reduced appetite, pain
with the weather. This formula builds you on the after eating, feeling of
inside so that you can withstand the environment. food sitting inside,
Have confidence and strength. We have Si Wu Tang, bloating, distention of
Si Jun Si Tang, Gui Zhi Tang. We have loranthus and abdomen and
ecommia for the achy water stuff. Xi Xin/Chuan epigastrium, loose
Xiong: classically used for EDs. Dead people trying to stools with undigested
hop in your bed. Bai Zhu isn't in here because it stops food, belching
sweating and the formula makes you sweat.
"Attachment to transient phenomenon is the source of
all suffering."

"duh" Coldness, lack of weak back and knees

drive, desire, ignition; of the cold variety;
tired like dinosaur on a listless, slow, low
cold day libido; polyurea; could
be diarrhea, esp. cock
crow; pedal edema;
urinary difficulty;
impotence; premature
ejaculation, afraid/fear
of fading into
darkness/doomed; no
courage to move
through the dark
This a dry LU, hot LU with some uncleanliness in the coldness, lack of drive, cold abdominal pain,
LU, some phlegm in the LU. This is a thirsty person's desire, ignition; tired lack of appetite, cold
formula. There was some kind of infection (nastiness like dinosaur on a cold middle jiao, nausea,
indicated by Huang Qin). day vomiting, lack of thirst,
a hard contracted
feeling in the middle,
diarrhea with watery
stool

This is for KI Yang deficiency leading to quaking in tiredness, nausea,

the yang (floating fire results). This brings the fire vomiting, sticky, loose
back down to the source. Give to a menopausal stools, feeling of
woman with floating yang (she's cold when not having heaviness, feeling of
a hot flash) or a guy with KI yang deficiency with KI fullness in the middle
fire. Yin Yang Huo: KI yang tonic, harnesses and/or chest, coughing
ascending LR yang, dispels wind, damp, cold bi. Bi Ji of loose clear or white
Tian: KI yang tonic. Tonifies Blood. Warmth under CV sputum, "lazy
1. Xian Mao: KI yang tonic. Cold, damp, bi. Lower jiao appetite", acid reflux
stubborn cold. Huang Bai: KI fire and damp heat in lj.
Zhi Mu: KI fire. Dang Gui: obgyn.

Nourish parched roots AND branches. above the diaphragm:

red face, foul yellow
discharge from upper
orifices, ringing in
ears, red eyes,
headaches, vertigo,
bitter taste in mouth.
Below belt: hot,
swollen genitals, foul
purulent discharges,
very foul smelling
bowel movements,
belligerence,
symptoms all get
worse with alcohol or
greasy food, hot
festering rashes
Strengthens the heart's ability to contain he passions Dryness in KI, KI yin any KI yin def.
without spilling deficient symptoms, Symptoms:
lack of fluidity restlessness, weak
back and knees of the
hot and brittle variety,
unrooted sexual
desire, unrootedness,
fear, jittery insecurity,
difficulty being still,
uncomfortableness
with silence, thirst,
possibly thirsting and
wasting, impotence
and premature
ejaculation, malar
flush, BL meridian
headaches, tight
occipital region, brittle
bones, insomnia of not
getting into bed
variety--unable to
switch off

This is considered a CV-GV tonic. Use when they're first stages of a cold
out of communication. Good for post partum when with clear, copious
things are falling/sagging out the bottom. This is phlegm & shivering, no
Holding Steady in all 3 jiaos. The bottom is weak sweating
because of qi deficiency: no vessel to hold the yin.
This is about building a container.
In may old texts, the Heart was part of the Earth Jing deficient or Jing premature aging:
element. The earth is the center of material reality. crises (transition times brittle bones, teeth,
The Heart is the center of non-material reality. It's such as mid-life, gray hair, wrinkles;
good for fire that's too ragged out to be able to menopause, delayed maturation;
nourish earth. Or, for earth too wrapped around its retirement, etc.) baby's fontanels not
own axle to be able to nourish fire (through XII/I). closing, delayed
Nervous worry is the emotional theme. Now spinning puberty, midlife or
thoughts of earth are directed towards you own heart. menopausal transition
The earth is gathering, and at the center of that difficulties, difficulty
gathering is the heart. This is Heart getting ragged aging gracefully or
out and deficient because of a deficient child (earth). moving into a new
phase of life gracefully,
PLUS either Ki yin def.
or KI yang def.
symptoms

This is a person with intimacy issues and stability

around intimacy. Instead of being overly labile (gui zhi
& bai shao) this person is congealed. Inner Frontier
Gate is pain. Can't trust. Don't want to love again
(even thought their Outer Frontier Gate does). Main
sexual abuse recovery formula. Classics: dreams of
being dead with your parents having a picnic on your
grave. Means child abuse. Sexual abuse that leaves
in its wake confusion, uneasy, shame, not clear about
it. Combo of Gui Zhi & Fu Ling means there's shame
and confusion present that the formula addresses,
generally around intimacy, interpersonal issues.

Unable to bear actual intimate contact. This formula toothache?

takes cinnamon twig issues PLUNK into water.
Dragon bone and oyster shell take cinnamon twig
formula into sexuality, lower burner. This formula is
right wrist. Can you and I become we? In this person,
they want the warmth but fear the contact. They want
you in bed with them, but they want to connect with
their fantasy, so in essence they're sleeping with
ghosts. Main formula for bladder shyness. Can give
when a whole bunch of other formulas don't work
(looks yin or yang deficient...but they're actually qi
deficient (contact)). This formula brings stability to the
lower burner.
Ying and Wei out of adjustment. This formula warms severe fire in qi and
the surface to keep cold out. This person is sweating blood levels
during the first stage of a cold, even though shouldn't
be sweating, because pores are too open and inner
ying is coming out. Reversed frontier gates create a
need for extra warmth from the other person because
there's a feeling of exposure and vulnerability.
Chronic coping tactics: car salesman, romantic
daydreamer, cold flirt, shy slut. Give this and not ma
huang tang when the person is sweating but it's not
useful sweating. The Ma Huang person is not
sweating--all gates are shut. You want them to sweat.

This is fire from yin deficiency in the aftermath of heat and dryness,
febrile disease. Huang Lian and Huang Qin clear especially in mucus
Heart fire and calm the spirit. E Jiao indirectly controls membranes
heart fire by nourishing KI yin. Ji Zi Huang drains fire
and generates blood. Shao Yao enriches and
preserves yin and harmonizes HT/KI
This is the Chinese antibiotic. It is for yellow or completely asthma with sticky
systemic infection resembling hot sewage. stuck tight phlegm in yellow phlegm (may be
The 3 yellows = earth. This person is the chest copious or dry and
invisible I.e. baked
confused about discomfort and hell. onto the LU),
Discomfort doesn’t have to be hell, but we coughing, wheezing,
make it hell when we resist it. They’ll sit worse on exertion,
there and fester. (munsif). In virtue, this worse in winter,
person can be uncomfortable and an sensation of heat and
activist and help things clear from an open irritability in the chest.
heart. They are stubborn about being your
friend (loyalty). Huang Lian: Clears damp
toxic heat in HT, SI and ST. Huang Qin:
Clears toxic heat in LR and GB. Also LU and
LI. Huang Bai: clears damp heat in KI/BL
and genitals. Zhi Zi: clears all heat in all
jiaos and all meridians.

This is used for internally generated disorders in primary need is for fragility, kind of like a
which the KI Yang is unable to provide a base for HT basic warmth and butterfly without
yang. nourishment, esp. enough blood in its
upper burner wings, fatigue,
fidgetiness,
forgetfulness,
nervousness, shyness,
palpitations, dyspnea
on exertion

Use this instead of Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan when the Cough and signs of
person has fluid accumulated in the legs. Sciatica wind-heat invasion in
which gets better with a diuretic. Weak legs. Stand Wei layer
steady in the darkness of my life.
Thea: This is Zhi Gan Cao Tang without the KI-HT disconnect as sexual confusion,
Cinnamon Twig. Thin skinned-ness. Stabilizing the indicated by confusion, incontinence or
surface in a Wood-Metal way. Heart/LU/LR. Bensky: anxiety or desires polyurea, poor
This is for yangming organ0stage where purging has without HT connection; memory, insomnia,
removed the excessive heat but has depleted yin and incontinence of some anxiety, leucorrhea,
fluids. kind from not being bed wetting, low back
astringed (not from pain, anxiety/confusion
heat): urine, money, about Heart's desire,
sperm, secrets, destiny and will, sexual
fantasy, blurting identity and desire;
difficulty making
contact thru own
muddle and confusion;
shame and denial;
incongruous child-like
innocence; impulsive
speech, especially
blurting private things
Yang is configurative--it can make shapes and some dryness, Qi pulse changes--speed
meanings out of things. If you don't have LU yang, deficiency, some up w/inhale, slows with
you don't know how to create meaning in experiences sense of exhale; irregularity of
in life. Wu Wei transforms fluids in LU. In health, air irregularity/not holding pulse-worse with
mixes with jinye. The jinye is the impressionable center in the heart exertion, missed
force. In this situation, there's plenty of jinye, but beats, thirst and dry
there isn't enough configurative force. Sometimes mouth, sense of
jinye can't "wed" to the qi. We're not configuring the chaos/out of control,
air. This can appear as an excess (slight) because timing issues--
there's not eough yang. This person needs more connection being off,
personalization with the events of the universe. "Life different drummer
is meaningless" of the depressive state is not this. syndrome, lurchy
Grasping is an astringent function. This is for basal qi, quality of VCR not
the qi the LU needs to function (overall). Qi deficient tracking properly,
collapse. You need to have qi to be inspired. easily thrown off by big
Movment of interest to inspiration is this formula. Or, shocks, over
to prevent miscarriage from months 4-5, where controlling things so no
there's some weight and SP qi is too deficient to more shocks in life;
handle it. irregular heart beat,
irregular breathing,
difficulty falling asleep,
difficulty concentrating,
lack of discipline or
excessive discipline,
out of control or control
freak, thin skinned,
perfectionist

This formula strengthens, stabilizes, and clears gunky

LU and tired burdened gunky earth. Helps colon as
well. Heavy gunked Metal from heavy gunked earth.
This is for a type of You grief. Thick, heavy burdened
despondent dull. Feeling of LU life being full of crap.
Spitting words--crap garbage--kind of ways. The LU is
full of stuffiness. The disgust of Earth and Disdain of
Metal. There is constipation or sticky diarrhea--it
always feels like there's more in there. in LU, stuff
they can't cough up fully.
Discipline as structure for facing "imperfections." cold hands and feet,
Sheng Mai San: In order to embody what I value, I irritability, intermittent
need to give things up. How will I structure my life digestive disturbance,
with elegance, to make it possible to create a feeling of constraint in
heavenly vessel. Every day I have prayer, then food, abdomen or chest
etc. Repetition of practices until they become you.
Mai Men Dong: Turn away from things to come back
inside. Highest uniform standard of excellence--
Kamil. The colon is the Daoist part: You could call it a
flaw, but really it's your uniqueness. If you've done
the LU culling and discipline and brought yourself to
the highest level of excellence, the LI helps you to
accept the non-standard as the unique.

Angry Xiao Yao San person. LR Qi constraint ashen pallor, dizziness

generating heat with SP Qi & Blood deficiency. Cools upon standing, scant
and dries earth. menses,
unresplendant hair and
nails, palpitations,
tiredness, fidgetiness,
tight muscles and
tendons, blurred
vision, floaters,
insomnia, shallow
sleep

You're deficient, stuck, bloated, and in pain. Churn Dizziness, vertigo,

and Burn power headache, blurred
vision, high or
fluctuating blood
pressure, numbness,
twitching, jerky
movements, tremors,
lower back weakness,
impotence, sensation
of ascending heat,
ringing in the ears,
stroke, epilepsy,
convulsions, sudden
loss of consciousness,
self-righteous anger
with cowardice
underneath, insomnia
with dream-disturbed
sleep
This is for deep sinking dread and fear. Drowning in systemic dryness, insomnia, palpitations
darkness and retreating from life. Not able to have significant dryness in on rest, anxiety,
enough pure desire, pure lust for life, to take the risk the LU, KI, HT. Deep restless fear, dryness
for coming out and crossing the dark. They could be restlessness--lack of and thirst, nosebleeds,
flaccid with apathy. Or, they may have enough will to rest in The Deep. night sweats, coughing
have something but then they quake and feel blood (TB), poor
doomed, overwhelmed by darkness they have to memory, low back
cross to get to where they desire. Desire is what pain, unrooted sexual
moves a person through this type of fear most often. desires, restlessness,
I'm going to go for it, strike forward and do it. This KI yin deficient sex:
formula fills the lamp with oil and then ignites it. This tight painful low back
formula tonifies KI yin and KI yang and maybe even ache, malar flush, 5
KI qi. palm heat;
menopausal hot
flashes esp.
w/palpitations, ringing
in the ears of the no-
silence type, brittle
osteoporosis, difficulty
settling into stillness,
uncomfortable with
silence, grief and
longing to the point of
Spirit Burial Ground
(HT/KI not
communicating)

This formula puts the fire back in the Spleen. Fu Ling late-stage plague
is missing from 4 gents: no fluid draining necessary. symptoms, high
The 2 that tonify qi are necessary. The ginger is here fevers, manic delirium,
to make the formula tonify and warm. nosebleeds, irritation,
blood in stools,
vomiting blood, blood
coming out of skin,
convulsions

"Abundant Splendor". This person is like a 4-wheel digestive pain with

drive vehicle. For a person's who is damp and has bloating, distention,
phlegm. painful diarrhea,
tenesmus, belching,
feeling painfully full
after eating only a
little, nausea, vomiting,
morning sickness
This is like sedating LR 2 and GB 38 for a year. It's Liver qi stagnation stronger constitution:
for the person who is damp, hot and angry. A lot of PLUS alternating ALTERNATING fever
people who need this are so in their own viewpoint symtomatology in and chills, bitter taste
that they believe their viewpoint is reality. "Hmmm. temperature and/or in mouth, flank
How do you think that looked from the other person's digestion pain/tightness,
view?" Get them to take the other person's irritability, dry mouth
perspective. Heat in the stomach pulls heat out of the without thirst
gall bladder. Stomach heat = greedy quality. Greed (sometimes referred to
can create aggression by inciting the GB to create as "thirst without
more bile. Then the GB/LR can invade earth. The desire to drink"), some
greediness of a hot ST can actually invite invasion. digestive problem
characterized by
irregularity. Weaker
constitution: post-viral
chronic fatigue

When you want to adapt to the dark you have to thin cold copious wet chronic: all of the
become darker than the dark. The best way to hear in glop in the respiratory symptoms of crying
the silence is to become quieter than the silence. This system (not in or from without the crying
formula brings stillness and quiet and silence deep earth element) (runny nose, phlegm
into a person. It brings in the capacity for floating on belabored breathing in
ocean type faith. This makes the darkness and the chest, pessimism
unknown a place a person can float and look at by and melancholy,
being even quieter and even darker than the asthma of this variety)
darkness they fear. Stop running fro fear. Listen. acute: early stages of
Relax. Reassurance says: the darkness is your a cold with sneezing,
friend, go deeper. clear copious mucus in
head and chest,
watery eyes, usually
feeling of chill, allergy
symptoms that are the
same

This is like a hot snow blower, move this cold and irregular menstruation
slush off my sidewalk. This formula calls in the with breast distention,
bouncer! KABOOM! Gui Zhi Tang vs. Ma Huang irritability and cramps,
Tang: Gui Zhi person is sweating but it's irregular disturbance of
unproductive. Like a revolving door, the person is appetite (under
sweating but the pathogen is still getting in. The Ma stress), irregular
Huang person needs to sweat--all gates are shut. disturbance of
They need to open and sweat to the let the pathogen digestion (constipation
out. Keep this person warm while sweating so that or diarrhea),
cold doesn't get in while the pathogen is leaving. If it's headache,
wind heat, help them to sweat and don't cover them hypochondriac pain,
so that the pathogen can exit. fatigue
Make yourself at home. ST Yin passing on problem to high, clear sounding
its child causing LU yin deficiency. Main focus of the cough with the
formula is to nourish ST yin and only secondarily absence of sputum
descends LU.

Nourish the root of vision. This person has problems Fixed, stabbing pain in
with vision because his/her vision isn't balanced. This the head or chest,
person is impatient and overshooting his/her tumors in head or
resources. Chau hu changes the vision, releases the chest, cold hands and
optical muscle. Dan Gui nourishes the hun, Wu Wei feet, nosebleeds,
Zi pulls the po back in and the rest nourish yin and dissociation,
clear heat. Yin gets drained. Water urgency and hallucinations, self-
Wood choppiness. mutilation,
feverishness, restless
sleep, palpitations

Qi Tonic and astringent for exterior (Wei qi). Leaking Qi, Blood, Shen shyness, stuttering,
ying. Very emotional, a little out of body. Makes a deficiency non-verbal,
boundary between you and the rest of the world. This depression, insomnia,
person is trying to escape themselves where Yu Ping palpitations on rest or
Feng San doesn't have enough qi to fill up his space. on exertion, tiredness,
Mu Li + Huang Qi balances ying and wei. Mu Li: pulls irregular heart beat;
down and in, keeps pores closed. Huang Qi, fills anxiety; poor memory
electron shell with you to edges. Ma Huang Gen:
pulls doors shut--stop sweating. Fu Xiao Mai: calms
spirit by tonifying HT yin and clearing HT heat.

This is the anti-doom formula. You might NOT be dryness thirst, dry skin,
doomed. San Piao Xiao: HT/KI communication thru hypochondriac and/or
BL line, astringe BL. Sha Yuan Ji Li: KI Yang tonic of chest soreness,
BL Yang variety, KI qi tonic, astringe. Goes to BL 1. smoking in secret,
Sang Piao Xiao and Sha Yuan Ji Li form the piggy brittle nails and hair,
bank. Tu Si Zi: pennies in the piggy bank. Rou Gui & urine dark and scant,
Fu Zi: dispel cold. Lu Rong: tonify KI yang, tonify GV, menstrual issues, acid
warms jing. Rou Cong Rong: KI Yang tonic and reflux, scant crampy
warms womb. Zi Wan: don't stumble - step into menses, tight, dry
confidence. feeling in chest
This tonifies the absolute depth of the root. It tonifies Sore throat sore throat, yellow
the yin and the yang (the very beginning of the trunk). mucus, cough, slight
It tonifies the depth and the movement of the depth fever, tight shoulders,
into the living. You can augment this formula on the thirst, headaches, red,
Wood end to help bring it up and out. You can add irritated eyes (spring
renshen & shan yao diascorus for survivor's guilt and allergies), rashes
anchoring own place in the cosmos (Earth). You can (epidemic), lecturing or
make a settle spirit version to anchor during singing until throat is
transition; for menopausal issues including flash and raw
panic attaches, helps anchor, settle, transition. Bu Gu
Zi helps the potency of the formula ignite and get
cooking.

This is a great combo for a wood or water cf with the hunger without
other one within with visual or creative problems. Not appetite, thirst but not
able to see creatively enough. This puts more juice wanting to drink very
under creativity and moves it to the eyes. Good artist much, stomach tight
and painter formula, especially artists who only work pain, could be a
late at night. They use the yin of the night. burning stomach pain,
tiredness, dryness (dry
flesh), unsatisfied
feeling, picky eater
(nothing seems quite
right)

These people have a bright yellow face Tired Earth, Low susceptibility to
(damp heat). They’re like a dandelion. energy, seasonal allergies,
When they eat they incinerate food into oversensitivity/suscepti frequent colds & flus,
bility to external and anything else
ashes. They eat off of others’ plates. conditions blowing around in the
Continuous nibbler. Trespassing earth. environment,
Control in Earth. This is a good acne sweating, aversion to
formula. Toxic earth mal-digests. Toxins in drafts
the blood become skin eruptions. Huang
Lian: clears HT/SI/ST heat. Ravenous.
Sheng Ma: brings formula to yangming in
the face. Mu Dan Pi, Sheng Di Huang: clear
heat in the blood from maldigestion. Tang
Kwei: tonifies blood-feel comfortable in
yourself. Shi Gao: for when they have huge
appetites. Clears ST heat, fire poison.
Thea has never given this to anyone. It’s
for blazing, egoic passion that drives a
person out of control. I NEED it, I WANT it, I
AM the Emperor. I’m going to simmer and
seethe. I am this war, permanently hating.
I am going to hold onto to my resentment
forever. Shi Gao, Zhi Mu, Dan Zhu Yu: clear
full heat in yang ming/qi level. Xi Jiao,
Xuan Shen, Sheng Di Huang, Mu Dan Pi,
Chi Shao: clear heat in the blood. Huang
Lian, Huang Qin, Zhi Zi: clear toxic damp
heat. Lian Qiao, Jie Geng, Gan Cao: vent
exterior and circulate

This person is deliriously hot. Heat in HM. constricted upper body Tight Shoulders,
A person can start as a Dao Chi San and symptoms, metal/wood bumping into things,
turn into this. Can add something to vent rigidity physically or
otherwise, bumping
the wei layer if the heat gets stuck as it’s into obstacles, a lot of
leaving. Xi Jiao: Clears heat from the HT planning and doing but
and GV. Sheng Di Huang: clears heat from not much breathing
blood and ying. Xuan Shen: clears heat and receiving, tight,
from HT/KI/LU. Dan Zhu Ye; clears heat in narrow chest, flank
HT. Takes out delirium. Huang Lian: clears soreness, insomnia
damp heat from heart. Lian Qiao: Clears (you're busy while
you're lying there),
wind-heat and fire poison. Jin Yin Hua: cold hands and feet,
clears wind-heat and fire poison. Mai Men thirst, some digestive
Dong: preserves, tonifies and repairs LU problems, VIII/IX block
yin. Dan Shen: compassion instead of self
hate.
This is for Metal-Water hot asthma (hot phlegm). It's edema, cold, loose cock crow diarrhea,
the ultimate LU/Ki yang - grasping - power of the stools, copious back pain, leg pain,
inhale. It tonifies yang but clears heat: gives proper urination (don’t want to swollen legs, vomiting,
healthy longing and desire, proper healthy drive, add more yin) chest pain, fluid
clears feverish ambition and excess desire. Fire in LU accumulation from
= fanaticism. Ge Jie: tonifies KI & LU yang; animal congestive heart
spirit. Ren shen: integrates breath. Zhi gan cao: high failure, fullness in
dose for zong qi. Fu ling: often fu shen. Clears chest, difficulty
vagueness and bog. Xing Ren: descends LU qi. breathing when lying
Chuan Bei Mu: clears heat, tonifies yin, transforms down. Excess fluid in
LU hot phlegm. San Bai Pi: clears heat LU & KI, LU, squishiness, guilt,
tonifies KI & LU yin, descends LU qi. Zhi Mu: clears frozen in fear,
heat LU & KI. quivering jellyfish fear,
sense of doom,
depression in winter,
lack of libido, lack of
daring, lack of
ambition, wimpiness,
sense of the past
overwhelming the
present or family
heritage overwhelming
personal ambition
Characterized by an inability to lie down. It is a some sign of full heat heat, scant dark urine,
formula for cold asthma. The mucus is clear and in the lower burner thirst, dry skin, thirsting
thick. Thea has never used this. (see pulse/tongue) and wasting, hot back
ache vaginal dryness
and/or burning
discharges, PID,
herpes, excess sexual
desire, night sweats,
afternoon heat, malar
flush, tiredness and
doing it anyway, urge
for power and
domination, excess
ambition, reckless lack
of fear, burning the
candle at both ends,
dysentery, hot leg bi
syndrome (hot damp
swollen legs/feet),
itchy, swollen genitals,
constant hard-on,
insomnia of type lying
in bed tossing &
thinking about who
they want to be
sleeping with

There are many variations of this formula. It's fluttery Deficient Upper burner irregular heartbeat,
fire or metal blood deficient insubstantial person. It's pulses palpitations on
eight precious & herbs which bring it to the upper exertion, thirst, dry
burner (BL 37 & BL 38). It warms and fills the Heart mouth, sensation of
mediator and LU with blood and warmth. More heat, sweating
nourishment that's fire and metal and elegance can disorder, dry
be less brittle. You can use cinnamon bark instead of constipation, insomnia,
or with the twigs. Metal cf. Physically cold & pale. anxiety, Cinnamon
Xmas deficiency. Cold dark autumn winter day. Not Twig Soup
much love light and soft. Metal is a mineral. It can use interpersonal styles,
some life blood and heart. It softens and fills metal. bei-type grief, sensitive
dry skin, emotional
thin-skinnedness,
perfectionism, control
freak
Classic for early stage warm-febrile diseases or mild symptoms of unrooted passions that
wind-heat in which coughing is dominant symptom. menopause (cold suddenly disappear,
Also used for eye disorders due to wind-heat and a lower jiao w/hot some forms of
hacking cough due to dryness. Use Yin Qiao San to flashes, sweats etc.) + hypertension, urinary
release exterior & clear heat. Use this to treat cough. deficient KI Fire. frequency, agitation,
Sang Ye: rel. exterior heat, clears LU heat, stops nervousness.
cough. Ju Hua: rel. exterior heat, disperses upper jiao
wind-heat and wind-heat in eyes. Lian Qiao: rel.
exterior & wind-heat. Bo He: rel. exterior & wind-heat
in LR way. Jie Geng: circ. LU qi up. Xing Ren: circ.
LU qi down. Lu Gen: Clears heat and generates
fluids. Gan Cao: clears heat and harmonizes other
herbs

HT/KI not communicating because they're too far Diarrhea reduced appetite,
away and need to be astringed back together. We weakness of
need to call upon the power of the SI and BL and GV: extremities, weight
the yang meridians to contain the yin meridians and loss, distention and
holding up in an upright way. Blowing your resources stifling sensation in
on fantasies from weakness. Temptations of the chest and epigastrium,
moment overcoming deep, heart/kidney desires. Tai pallid and wan
yang thrills. The Shao Yin core doesn't get filled if complexion
they follow every enthusiasm and desire...this person
needs to essentialize

LU & ST dry. Thirsty. coughing, fatigue dry cough in parched

throat, dry mouth,
thirst, dry, shortness of
breath, blood-streaked
sputum, dry wheezing,
restlessness, hyper
reactions,
hypersensitivity to
external stimuli,
bronchial illness, upper
body edema,
backache,
spontaneous sweating,
scant urination, night
sweats
This is a deficient person who is losing their stuff. Full unstable exterior spontaneous sweating
of schmutz and empty of everything else. This person that is worse at night,
is usually skinny. This person must have diarrhea. Si irregular palpitations,
Jun Si Tang: tonify SP qi. Shan Yao: absorb nutrients easily startled and
(SP yin). Lian Zi: stabilize. Bai Bian Dou: Raise SP qi, prone to hysteria,
calm ST, fills empty middle, plug bottom. Yi Yi Ren: prone to odd
drain damp, drains stagnant fluid in lower body. Sha outbursts, agitation
Ren: Moves sludgy, biley, thick blah in digestive and tiredness from
system. Jie Geng: Raises the clear food which could vitality leading out to
be nourishment. surface

This is the ultimate Tang Zhong Center of the Heart cough, thick, clear
Universe formula. This formula steadies an irregular mucus
heartbeat, pulse and breathing. It synchronizes the
rhythm of the heart and breath so that the upper jiao
is moving in heavenly unison. 9/11.The old rhythm is
gone. You need to find a new way. Generally people
go into over-control (ht qi def.) This helps a person
move through the pathology of over control or feeling
there's no control. Abdullah Schaub. Wu Wei:
astringes LU qi to prevent leakage of LU qi and
sweat. Mai Men Dong: Tonifies LU, HT, ST, LI yin. Air
after storm. Ren Shen: tonifies Basal qi, SP qi, LU qi.
Good for mitro-valve prolapse.

This is good for women with pain when standing some kind of prolapse, tinnitus, low
during menstruation, not when they lie down and take falling/sagging. back pain, pelvic
it easy (deficiency). This is qi deficiency from blood bearing down.
deficiency. There isn't enough substance and the
energy collapses. Menstrual exhaustion.
This is a recovery, post-op type of formula. Qi and edema in legs, KI yin overflow of water,
blood deficiency with cold. The person needs help deficiency aversion to cold, cold
with life force and little uplifting. extremities, scanty
urination, edema of
legs, abdominal
distention, sore low
back

Receive, Mix, Propose. copious urination frequent, clear and

prolonged urination or
enuresis

This formula releases by opening tightness outwards.

It's often modified. Heat enters the interior where it
constrains yang qi. This inhibits yang qi from
spreading to the extremities, causing cold fingers and
toes. The tongue and other symptoms reflect heat
w/cold extremities

This formula has an internal balance of movement Cold, KI Yang def.

and stillness. It's the base for most menstrual
formulas. Helps you stand fully in your own skin, take
up your own space. Resilience in presence of
trespass.
damp-cold leading to constrained qi and turbid
phlegm. Su He Xiang and An Xi Xiang: penetrate
turbidity surrounding the orifices, opens closed
disorders, restores consciousness. She Xiang and
Bing Pian: break up turbidity, open orifices, unblock
channels and collaterals. Mu Xiang, Tan Xiang, Chen
Xiang, Ru Xiang, Ding Xiang, Xiang Fu: are acrid,
dispersing, warm and moving. They moves the
movement of qi. Bi Ba warms the middle burner. Zhu
Sha sedates the heart. Bai Zhu tonifies qi. He Zi:
restrains the leakage of qi. This formula uses many
aromatic substances to open orifices, transform
turbidity and promote the movement of qi. Wind-
stroke, cold-stroke, qi-stroke, collapse from disorders
involving phlegm.

Calms the restlessness of an empty heart on fire

KI Yang/BL Yang tonic. Not about edema or

steaming. It holds and concentrates urine. Fluids not
condensed and the person is having a hard time
holding fluid in BL. Incontinence. This formula is often
added to other formulas. It's gentle but effective.

Gives the strength to bear fruit. Xu Duan: Don't be

scared (KI yang). You can provide stability for
someone else. For propensity to or fear of
miscarriage. Tonifies Qi & Blood of the KI & SP. Main
symptom is backache. There's low energy.
This formula clears wind and tonifies KI yin
deficiency. As a whole this formula has 2 halves: a
top half that's fiery and excess and a bottom half
that's deficient. You either see the surface which is
the pressure (meet that deadline). Or you see what's
underneath, which is fear, uncertainty, will I be able to
do it, do I have what it takes. The more this person is
scared about their own level of potency the more
urgent and pressured they get.

This is for a Fire/Water person who needs the HT/KI

axis reconnected. Tonifies HT Qi, LU Yin, HT Blood,
Calms Spirit. Or Water person with lots of fire and a
touch of metal. Main formula for cocaine recovery.
Heart unquiet, Heart unrooted, Heart unreceptive,
Heart nervous. Essence of upper KI points. We are
tonifying the aspect of the emperor that receives the
mandate from heaven. Able to be deeply satisfied
within my depth down into my root, able to go into
deep silence. Metal: This formula says, "Yes." If
you're longing for the sacred, you're already in
contact with it, you just haven't taken it in (yin def.).

We won’t actually see people like this

because if they’ll be in the hospital. You
can add Dan Shen for cruelty and Chai
Shao for anger than began as a hunger for
justice. This is for Jade Fox. The heat in the
blood is triumphant and marauding. Rage
for justice has conquered and is
dominating. Xi Jiao: clears heat in GV & HT
(delirium & convulsions). Sheng Di Huang:
clears heat in the blood. Mu Dan Pi: clears
heat in the blood. Chi Shao: clears hard,
fixed angry mess. My insides has become
a sear. I am angry injury. Identity revolves
around the angry injury.
Use this when you're even further into stuckness from
Liu Jin Si Tang. This person is like an all-terrain
vehicle.

For the Green and Yellow Pinellia Drain the

Epigastrium person. Illness is hooked into your
center. Can't push straight up. Can't attack straight
on. Twist. Pivot. Quick moving moves. Chai Hu: like
Moses you feel your oppression. Then you rebel. Fist
it goes in (crouch) then it unhooks (spring).

Fire not controlling metal, metal overcoming wood. thirst

Acute: someone turned on a water faucet in your
head and it's coming out your face. It's for Eyore. It's
for Ireland. Pessimism. Fire and metal excitement--it's
a really good party (fire) and it's a really good magic
show (lu yang). Also used cautiously for LU yang
deficiency that's led to LU yin excess (chronic). Ma
Huang and Xi Xin jettison. You grief to LU. Ban Xia
deals with the chewing gum in the LU. Wu Wei
balances the Ma Huang. Gui Zhi, Sheng Jiang & Bai
Shao help the insides to be nourished. Something
warming your true light out to the surface.
Angry doormat formula. Use it for LR invading SP,
where LR Qi constraint, SP qi def. and Blood def all
exist. Liver invades SP because it's its neighbor The
person holds in emotion, not enough self esteem to
speak up and eventually you invade yourself and
possibly a neighbor. Elementally, it's wood and earth
when they get bogged down. Sometimes when
there's not enough blood & qi, what is there
stagnates. This is for a stagnant 8 Precious person.
This is deficient anger. Deficient anger doesn't mean
a little bit angry. It's anger from a place of weakness,
helplessness. There's a whine underneath the yell.

Most commonly used when they’ve

basically won the battle but the LU is still
very hot. This formula drains dark heat,
dry heat. Like the bottom ½ of the gecko
formula. Give to someone shrieking for
jihad. Angry shriek of violation of holiness.
Heat in the LU = franticness. Parched,
frantic, top of the LU frantic heat. May
have nosebleed, thirst, feeling of burning
or heat in LU. Can’t rest. Desperate frantic
striving. Sang Bai Pi: clears heat from
LU/KI. Di Gu Pi: clears heat from LU/KI &
tonifies yin. Gan Cao: clears heat,
harmonizes. Jing Mi: protects stomach

This is a bleeding too much formula. Blood deficiency

is a rare cause of bleeding, but it can happen.
Menses that never end. This formula stops it. Helps
mid-cycle spotting, potential miscarriage. It doesn't
prevent a fetus from aborting if it needs to abort. This
is a "Hold on to the previous" formula.
This is only the right if the person has: blood
deficiency, LR qi constraint, Heat in the Blood,
Congealed Blood above the Diaphragm. Virtue: It's
OK to be who you are. Take up your space. You have
been injured, it's true, but it's worth continuing to feel.
There's more to feel in life than pain, It's worthy letting
others touch you. This is the upper jiao congealed
blood formula. It's for someone who has been abused
and attacked. It's for cruelty to oneself. The person
injures and reinjures themselves at the sight of the
injury. Blood deficient qi constraint often manifests as
anger turned inwards upon itself.

This formula makes a "go" heartbeat. Not stately like

Heavenly Emperor. It's more of a concept than a
formula. There are many varieties. This is a yang
version of Heavenly Emperor. Good for someone not
able to find words, not able to shine forth as here I
am, this is me. Bringing it on out. The wu xing shi yao
is a really deep listening, because most people who
are this formula, in order for them to talk they need a
very deep silence to talk into. I know who I am, I'm
comfortable, I'm going to show up and shine it forth.

This person has a slickness. This is the wood person

you want to tell to breathe and slow down. A clipped,
dry quality. This person has it all together and the
only frustration is that the rest of the world can't keep
up. On inside is a tremendous emptiness and grief,
because wood means almost no metal. Outrunning
his/her own lungs. Mai Men Dong softens dry metal.
Sha Shen contains moisture. Shu Di Huang brings
silence. Gou Ji Zi moves into water to look at what is
there. Tang Kwei: now it can move. Chuan Lian: I
don't have to make a fight or struggle out of it.
This ventilates heat trapped in the surface. Indicated
by a cold which started with a sore throat.

Sabbath Rest + Meaningful Engagement

This is good for the elderly. It supports a person in

their longevity. It's good for cold, yang deficient
infertility. This formula is gentle. It's common for
comebacks after illness or exhausting something or
other.

Insatiable hunger and desire. This is full heat and yin

deficiency in the LU, ST and KI. There's no root and
stagnant blood in the KI. Hot & tight low back pain.
This person is restless, has hyper-sexuality, insatiable
sexuality (feels like hunger-devouring-obsession-
consuming). This is not like Ban Xia productive
obsessive where you're thinking about a project all
the time. This is often a formula for a diabetic.

This is a very ancient formula. This is for Wei Qi

deficient spontaneous sweating: full body
spontaneously sweats--the LU is misting tissues and
it comes all the way out because the pores aren't
closed as they should be. Heart Mediator spont
sweating is more to do with interpersonal
nervousness, wanting to be liked. This is not for what
you've already got. It helps you prevent would could
come. It's also good for susceptibility to criticism--
hyper afraid of it. This helps you to say, "It's not my
problem. It's not about me."
We're giving a unified message to the blood: don't
bleed too much and don't stop, either. Particularly
good for bleeding/congeal from trauma. Promotes the
healing of wounds; prevents adhesions after surgery.
Stops bleeding on a spiritual and emotional level.
Helps resolve old injuries; sudden relationship
breakup when it wasn't you idea and you're
anguishing and bleeding over it. Usually 1-2 week
intervention for spirit level and 2-3 week intervention
for physical. For clearing at beg. of tx: 2 capsules
2x/day 4 days on, 3 days off, then repeat next week.

You're expecting a fight. You're out to prove yourself.

This person is a loner. Wood/Metal with a subtext for
Earth (dry, forlorn Earth). Wood wrapped tight,
expecting battle. Metal cut off, defended. Can't fall
asleep because they're in defense mode. LR 14, LU
1, LU 2. You can't fall asleep because you're in
defense mode. We have Si Ni San. Xi Xin:
unconstrains GB, esp in diaphragm. Opens
constrained closet wet rainy LU (LU 2). Ge Gen:
Earth--ST/LI herb. More ST...Known for going to
yangming tight shoulders. Sha Shen: LU Yin--the
sweetness of the inhale. Ability to take it in.

This is for someone who has so much edema,

diarrhea, nausea and obvious wetness you know the
problem isn't that they don't have enough yin. This is
the quivering wimp formula. This person's life is wet.
They have edema, the flesh holds fluids, there is
excess water. It's hard to light something. This is KI
yang overwhelmed by KI yin. It's impossible to assert
the will because of the preponderance of what seems
like your fate bearing down on you. Message: You are
the essential creator of your fate: not external forces
or other people's desire. These people often have a
lot of guilt, similar to earth guilt.
This is blood and yin deficiency with ascending yang
of the Heart and Liver. The formula focuses on
insomnia from deficient HT blood with ascending LR
yang.

Darth Vader. This formula brings in the ocean of dark,

silence. It quenches, fills the root. Go down and into
the dark to receive and be filled by the dark (in a
positive sense). Good for restlessness,
unrootedness, fear coming from an unrooted place,
agitation, unrooted sexual desire. Kidney Fire is like
Kidney Yang from the devil. Instead of ambition,
desire and resolution of yang, it's the lust, domination
and heedless recklessness of desire and ambition.

Can't bear to be touched (thin skinned and delicate).

Longs to make contact (forlorn or used car
salesman), Sheng Mai San & Cinnamon Twig Soup
Formula. This is for the Gui Zhi Tang person who is
yin deficient with a little heat. This formula is Gui Zhi
Tang & Sheng Mai San. Use for three types: 1.
Contact heart to heart. Fluttery fire and irregular
pulse. 2. Difficult ying & wei. Can't handle being
touched. 3. Thin-skinned, bleeds easily. Being
touched hurts. Delicate, parched dry Metal. Often
used for heart disease, b/c there's not enough qi to
pump the blood you're cold & heat can develop
around the heart. Gui Zi helps the heat move out to
the edges.

This is vigorous HT fire injuring the blood and yin.

The heart scorches the blood in yin, which deprives
the HT of nourishment. Or can say that the uprising of
the Heart prevents it from rooting in the KI, which
gives the spirit no place to reside during the yin time
of night.
This is the primary formula for stomach flu or
hangover (summerheat). It's the essence of a 10/11
block. ST 45: Hard Bargain. When you look at life you
see shit instead of food. It's good for morning
sickness triggered by little things (smells, etc.). This
person is throwing up. If you're not throwing up, it's
also good for headache (nausea manifesting in the
head).
 Can't Have Pulse Tongue Modifications Bensky
dryness, heat, deep, soft, may pale, little swollen, Hu Po + Dan Shen
constraint be slippery (or a little tooth marky, for shell shock.
little slippery), esp. around front Ban Xia for
absence on HT & muddled or cold
SI phlegm. Zhu Li for
hot phlegm. Long
Yan Rou, Suan
Zao Ren or Dang
Kwei for heart
blood deficiency.

heat from thin, yielding pale, toothmarks 257

deficient yin,
severe diarrhea

heat from or with BIG Red & getting dry 70

an underlying & may have a
deficiency yellow coating
flushed face, bitter slippery, a bit probably pale, 291
taste in mouth, tense maybe bluish
red tongue with pale, swollen with
scanty coating moist or greasy
(full heat) white coating

any doubt slippery, probably conflicting, 151

whatsoever that places of flaccidity probably red
this is the right and places of w/white coating or
formula tension exactly what you
don't expect from
what the bowel
movements are
like
fever due to heat yielding, weak pale, swollen with Add Mu Xiang for 242
from yin toothmarks, very diarrhea from too
deficiency. Not thin white coat much thinking. Add
indicated in all Tu Si Zi and Du
instances of Zhong to prevent
prolapse, only in miscarriage
those due to qi resulting from SP
deficiency qi sinking. Add Si
Wu Tang if person
is blood def. Add
Dang Kwei and Bai
Shao for muscle
cramps. Add Rou
Gui for Qi
deficiency moving
into Qi collapse.
Add Shan Yao and
Wu Wei Zi for
frequent urination
from jogging.

nothing beyond various: check for various 51

the obvious X-XI block

Liver Yang excess tense bluish 146

 32

for weak patients submerged, dry yellow tongue. 116

this should be excessive If severe: will
used only when become black
absolutely with prickles.
necessary, and
then with the
addition of tonic
herbs. It can
cause vomiting or
severe diarrhea.

True heat rather BIG Red and getting 34

than heat dry and may have
produced to fight yellow coating.
an invasion of
cold. This is not
for a chronic
yangming pattern.

pale tongue, cold, tight and definitely red, esp. This formula is 95
polyurea (large pounding, may be tip, yellow coating often combined
quantities of pale rapid with others.
urine), muddled Sometimes
and confused, combined with Gui
phlegmatic Pi Tang.
Sometimes with
Heavenly Emperor.
wrong diagnosis, weak and thin pale with 207
e.g. pain is from toothmarks
injury, congealed,
heat, qi stagnation

slippery thick white coat 432

numbness, thin or tight may thin, tends 383

uptightness, be rapid towards red; may
constraint, be pale on sides;
insensitivity, dry, thin coat, if
stoicism any
hard, dry could be irregular, pale and Jiawei: add Chai 255
constipation; more probably thin, scalloped Hu & Zhi Zi for a
energy with yielding, may be a hot, tight gui pi
exercise; bit slippery tong person
constraint; settled
spirit

Thea: extreme qi choppy, possibly purple, purple 321

and blood def., slippery veins underneath
bleeding unless (at rear of tongue)
def. From
congealed blood.
Bensky:
Pregnancy and
post-partum, and
only when there is
a confirmed
diagnosis of blood
stasis producing
this pattern.

excess in lower usually yang def., pale

jiao, HEAT, weak, deep; but
bleeding (from occasionally tight
rectum, nose,
spotting mid cycle
during period is
OK unless starts
bleeding a lot),
red tongue,
pounding pulse
Thea: true heat, "whatever' or pale (cannot be
red tongue, rapid floating and tight red!)
pulse. This isn't
for ALL
relationship
problems! Just
interpersonal
temperature-
related ones., I.e.
"degrees" of
intimacy are
inappropriate or
unstable. Bensky:
Bleeding or
Excessive
Menstrual
Bleeding

Severe deficiency, full, pounding and red with thick,

cold signs. May slippery disgusting yellow
injure digestion coat
over time.

qi stagnation, "deficient," soft, pale with thin, 241

immobility from weak, small (a white coat,
rigidity rather than little pulse) probably
weakness, fatigue toothmarks
due to over-
involvement, too
much "upward"
energy (LR yang
rising)
dryness, thirst, slippery thick, white coat, 238
signs of yin puffy, toothmarks
deficiency or
stomach heat

external irregular little dry, might be 245

pathogen, upper qi def (scalloped),
jiao qi stagnation, might be peeled in
upper jiao damp LU area, little red
or phlegm, (from yin def)
diarrhea
internal wind tense, pounding bluish red 148

Don't use I acute weak, frail pale, swollen, 458

cases of food greasy white coat
stagnation due to
contaminated
food, or from
overconsumption
of food and drink.

Thea: edema, deep, weak pale, swollen, thin 278

diarrhea, and white coat
nausea (give zhen
wu tang instead),
heat, dark urine,
red tongue,
pounding pulse.
Bensky: Yin
deficiency with a
dry moth and
throat and a red
tongue with little
coating
Externally deep, weak pale, wet with a 219
contracted white coating
conditions with
fever or yin
deficiency. For
sudden turmoil
disorder its use
should be
discontinued once
the vomiting and
diarrhea have
stopped

dryness. Yin slippery, yielding significant white 238

deficiency coat, teethmarks,
pale, sticky

caution with any pounding, red, yellow coat

underlying slippery,
deficiency, overflowing
especially in Earth
Thea: dampness; tight (strings are red, peeled, thin For ghetto version 263
cold; sluggish sharp) add: Chai Hu and
digestion, Tang Kwei. You're
including diarrhea. young, strong,
Signs of wetness, powerful and every
esp. digestive door is shut.
wetness (shu di
huang is hard on
SP). Bensky:
Indigestion,
diarrhea due to
SP deficiency or
white, greasy
tongue coat

sweating, lack of floating, tight anything 33

a cold, external
pathogen, heart
condition, high
blood pressure
Thea: Really wiry (Dr. Shen's yin or yang def. 273
severely definition), small Tongue,
compromised and feeble depending on
digestive system. beyond mere yin which way they
Bensky: SP or yang deficiency got to jing
deficiency deficiency

264

toothache due to slippery, large, RED with little

wind-cold or rapid coating
tooth/gum
problems due to
KI deficiency
yang deficiency, rapid dark red
Spleen or
Stomach
weakness

cold signs, wet tight and Red! Probably

signs, lots of pounding, bigger peeled. If coat,
daytime sweating as you rise up yellow dry
and thirst (=full
heat), signs of
damp
heat/infection/swe
lling (pus, sepsis,
toxicity, festering)
acute episode in inflated on upper somewhat red Add Wu Wei Zi if 246
the moment you jiao and deep on with some sticky you need extra
are taking this lower jiao yellow coat and "grasp qi." Add
formula. Not for some peeledness. Gua Lou for hot
asthma with clear phlegm (hot
loose phlegm, peanut butter in
cold conditions, qi LU). Add Tu Si Zi
constraint or for incontinence
dryness when coughing,
wheezing or
backache. Add
Xuan Shen and up
Zhi Gan Cao it
heat is out of
control - blood in
mucus.

heat, stagnation, thin and soft pale, thin 260

excess (of
anything)

don't know floating, rapid normal

Thea: Bladder not firm "pale or red" 362
infection, Ehling
excess/full in
lower jiao: damp
heat, sex drive
from full heat and
yin def., urinary
retention. Bensky:
Incontinence due
to vigorous fire in
lower burner or
damp heat
(painful urination).
Stuck/constraint, irregular little dry, might be Good for coronary 245
tight in chest: the qi deficient disease with
people who are (scalloped), might congealed blood
over controlled be peeled in LU originally from
and a little too area, little red mitro valve
perfect may feel from yin def., prolapse (for this
tightness in the could have HT add Dang Shen
chest. It's not a line crack through and Hong Hua).
real tightness, it's tip, could have Add Xiang Fu for
a "I better hold on scallops or itchy, scratchy qi
to this or I'll come swelling on the tip constraint and
apart and I'm irritability.
weak." Tightness
in terms of qi
stagnation
stuckness where
and feel better
with exercise is
the person we do
not want to give
this formula. Can
have too moist,
gooey wetness
(can sometimes
cu it with 30% ban
xia hou po gou
tang to keep qi
moving), upper
jiao Qi stagnation,
upper jiao damp
or phlegm

Overuse may weak, soft, puffy with 236

result in dry yielding teethmarks, pale
mouth, thirst,
irritability. Don't
use without
modification if
there's high fever,
heat from
deficiency, or
combination of
irritability, thirst
and constipation
Liver Yang excess tense bluish 145

Acute, severe thin pale 248

blood loss or
other problems of
blood deficiency
which include
severe weakness
and labored
breathing.
Constitutional SP
Yang def. With
poor appetite and
loose stools (if
this is the case,
add herbs to
tonify SP qi)

caution with low tight, pounding trembling or 405

blood pressure. askew, red
Be aware of
changing need for
blood pressure
medicine or anti-
convulsive
medicine
Thea: Cold, too tight (like a razor), could be red, 378
much wet, LU or esp. L wrist (tight could be peeled,
LR Qi constraint, and sharp) towards thin
phlegm, diarrhea,
digestive
sluggishness.
External
pathogen, phlegm
in respiratory
system (sinuses
or LU), person is
cold and/or wet.
Bensky: Cold, too
much wet, LU or
LR Qi constraint,
phlegm, diarrhea,
digestive
sluggishness.
Should not be
taken long term
(toxic cinnabar). If
a person coughs
phlegm and pees
copiously this isn't
right.

Cold. Use only pounding, rapid, RED! No coat.

when acute overflowing
medical care is
not available.

slippery, weak significant white 239

coat, toothmarks,
pale
Uncomplicated tense, esp. middle white coat on right 392
symptomotalogy, burner side, shaoyang
e.g. purely dots (on one side)
excess, purely (Maciocia)
deficient, purely
heat, purely cold,
purely interior or
purely exterior

dryness, heat in chronic: slippery chronic: pale, wet, 38

the upper jiao, deep forceless gooey, swollen,
outwardly acute: floating, white coating,
scattered shen, light phlegm streaks
fear of Ma Huang Acute: anything
but probably more
pale than red

Liver Yang may be pale bluish with 147

excess, yin predominantly white coating
deficiency tense or thin,
and/or slippery
coughing and thin, rapid red with yellow
wheezing due to coat
wind-cold, wind-
heat or damp-
phlegm

Pregnancy, most tense, choppy or purplish red, 314

cases which thin, choppy, purple veins
involve menstrual some pounding underneath
bleeding.
Bleeding diathesis
or any active
hemorrhagic
disorder.

Thea: constraint, irregular; weak, toothmarks, pale,

heat, hyperness - esp upper burner possible midline
restlessness, and probably SP; crack to tip
stagnation. thin, yielding,
Bensky: Heat in deep
HT

Damp Earth, tight to tense thin, red, peeled, Congealed blood- 271
loose clear esp in LR area fibroids: Tao Ren,
phlegm in LU, (LR area may be Chi Shao or Mu
nausea, edema, red or pale), may Dan Pi. Spasms
slow lethargic be peeled in LU and muscle
lifestyle area tightness: Bai
Shao. Achy tight
shoulders: Bai
Shao, Ge Gen.
Exhaustion (qi
def.): Huang Qi &
Ren Shen.
Infertility: He Shou
Wu, Tu Si Zi.
Backache: Niu Xi,
Sang Ji Sheng.
Insomnia: Suan
Zao Ren, Bai Zi
Ren, He Huang Pi.
not for chronic floating and may be some red 44
sore throats due rapid/not tight dots in LU area
to KI yin def. And coming up
LU heat

nausea tight dry, reddish,

midline crack in
middle, possible
lateral cracks in
middle

excess conditions, "deficient" pale with white Add Gui Zhi Tang 352
e.g. basically coating and to warm the inside
strong person with toothmarks and bolster the
an external outside. Add Can
pathogen, pain or Er Zi Tang for
stuckness from qi stuffy nose. Add
constraint, severe Shan Yao and
blood and yin Chen Pi and Da
deficiency (could Zao to soften and
make client feel move digestion in
restless), nursing kids who get sick
mothers (gives all the time.
baby too much
energy!). NOT
FOR
environmental
sensitivity due to
Wood hyper-
reactivity o
perceived
"insults."
weak stomach,
shellfish

not great for tense, middle probably a bit n/a

perimenopausal burner, tight upper bluish, getting red
women, caution burner esp. in LU & Earth
with migraines areas. Dry
(check for signs of
internal wind or
ascending liver
yang, too much
reckless upward
energy), LU
phlegm
Thea: Heat, soggy and deep, pale and swollen 197
Dryness, weak, could be and wet, white
hyperactivity, slippery coat
constipation, red
tongue, pounding
pulse. Bensky: Yin
deficiency
Thea: Cold (may pounding and red, yellow coat 265
give for a week if tight, maybe even (may be raised
a PID or herpes felt before you red bumps in rear)
outbreak from fear press
place). Cold in (overflowing), esp.
lower jiao: pale lower jiao
tongue; deep
weak pulse.
Bensky: SP
deficiency, Cold in
the KI

cold, wet lungs, irregular, upper red or pale (could If chest pain 257
phlegm. Check for jiao empty (may be mixed and (congealed blood)
entry/exit blocks. feel flat), a little could be quite or betrayal add
If problem is an tight, could be low red), peeled (esp. Dan Shen and
E/E block in the pulse rate in LU area), Heart Hong Hua. If
chest, do it. line crack nosebleeds up the
Mai Men Dong and
add Xuan Shen.
For insomnia add
Suan Zao Ren and
Ge Gen.
true heat deep and weak depends on 282
whether false fire
or def. yang
predominates

yin deficient heat, moderate or pale with white 239

constipation deficient, coating
moderate pulse

Qi stagnation in tight red, peeled, 246

chest, thick especially in front,
phlegm scalloped in front
exterior thin or tight and thin and either Add Suan Zao Ren 353
patho9gen. Thick yielding pale or red (blood and Bai Zi Ren for
and oily sweat. or yin def.) insomnia. Add Wu
Full Heat. Wei Zi to help with
inner alignment.
Add Sheng Mai
San for post-shock
expressing this
way. Add WuWei
Zi, He Shou Wu or
Gou Ji Zi for real
yin deficiency if
this continues over
time.

heat in LU 247

yang deficiency weak thin, red, maybe Can substitute 267

peeled Tang Kwei for Shu
Di Huang if you
need to regulate
menses more.
 submerged, wiry pale, swollen, This is a 278
tooth-marked with modification of Jin
white, slippery Gui Shen Qi Wan.
coat

lack of copious deep, without pale, wet, puffy 363

urination force

deep, slow, pale, swollen, wet

yielding, weak

yin deficiency, weak, deep, slow swollen, thin white Add Xu Duan to 278
heat coat, toothmarks, add strength &
wet support pregnancy.
It helps with an
injured will. Add
Gou Ji to tonify KI
yang and expel
wind-damp-bi. Add
Ze He Che for
someone who
needs a physical
rebirth (wasting
illness, close to
death). Add Gu Sui
Bu to mend bones
and move blood
for when the
foundation is
shattered (tooth
decay).
high fever and deficient, rapid dry, red with little 165
irritability, if there's coating
a pathogenic
influence in the
exterior,
dampness, LU
atrophy due to
cold from
deficiency

diarrhea tight and not red, dry yellow 94

rooted or coat, probably a
yangming: big and midline crack,
pounding. might have lateral
cracks

eating turnips tight red (esp. on 265

sides)
none tight red, peeled, dry 274

exterior pathogen, tight or upper red, peeled, 161

pale or copious burner flat lateral cracks in
phlegm LU area

none thin, rapid red, shiny 267

sp qi deficiency, rapid and forceful red with little 267
weak digestion in rear position coating

none 270

dampness, runny, tight on LU, red, midline n/a

wet upper burner pounding on LU cracked tip, dry
RED with little 161
coating

259

250
thin, frail pale with thin coat 249

weak, thin pale, scalloped 260

thin and a bit pale, some yellow 252

slippery coat
 thin and weak pale, thin while 261
coat, possibly
scalloped

thin, weak pale n/a

don't use in a hot very thin, deep pale, thin, wet; Wu Zhu Yu: cold 216
climate. thin while coat, vomiting or ST
maybe red tip pain. Fang Feng:
taking criticism
badly or cold
headaches. Mu
Xiang: intestinal
pain. Chuan Xiong:
headache. Bai Zhi:
frontal headache

submerged, thin pale, dry 265

pregnancy. Weak 424

constitution.
loose bowels thin or tight pale or red 379
(maybe a peachy
color on sides)

thin and rapid red, thin, dry 379

pregnancy. Do not submerged, pale with a 422

heat or take in slippery slippery, greasy
large amts. coating

thin, wiry
misdiagnosis! tense, forceful, red, slippery 387
may be slippery yellow coat

thin, rapid red with dry, 382

yellow coat

383

thin, rapid red

pregnancy. rapid red or peeled 416

none maybe floating, white, greasy 183
maybe soggy, or tongue coat
both