Table 3 Ten most commonly used herbal formulae prescribed by CM practitioners for treating mental disorders, diseases of the nervous system and sense organs (total prescriptions: 1901)
From: Patterns of Chinese medicine use in prescriptions for treating Alzheimer’s disease in Taiwan
Herbal formulae | English name | Average formulae dose (g/day) | Ren-Shen CHF dose (g/day) | Ren-Shen herbs (g/day) | Dang-Qui CHF dose (g/day) | Dang-Qui herbs (g/day) | Frequency of prescriptions (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bu-Zhong-Yi-Qi-Tang | Center-supplementing Qi-boosting decoction | 5.3 | 1.4 | 8.0 | 0.9 | 5.6 | 629 (33.1) |
Ji-Sheng-Shen-Qi-Wan | Life saver kidney Qi Pill | 5.1 | – | – | – | – | 538 (28.3) |
Ma-Zi-Ren-Wan | Cannabis fruit pill | 4.8 | – | – | – | – | 511 (26.9) |
Tian-Wang-Bu-Xin-Dan | Celestial emperor heart-supplementing elixir | 4.2 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 8.1 | 476 (25) |
Gan-Mai-Da-Zao-Tang | Licorice, wheat, and jujube decoction | 3.9 | – | – | – | – | 421 (22.1) |
Sheng-Mai-San | Pulse-engendering powder | 2.6 | 1.5 | 8.6 | – | – | 396 (20.8) |
Tian-Ma-Gou-Teng-Yin | Gastrodia and uncaria beverage | 5.5 | – | – | – | – | 381 (20) |
Liu-Wei-Di-Huang-Wan | Six-ingredient rehmannia pill | 2.1 | – | – | – | – | 336 (17.7) |
Qi-Bao-Mei-Ran-Dan | Seven-jewel beard-blackening elixir | 3.5 | – | – | 0.9 | 5.6 | 284 (14.9) |
Tao-Hong-Si-Wu-Tang | Peach Kernel and Carthamus four agents decoction | 2.2 | – | – | 0.4 | 2.5 | 258 (13.6) |