Table 2 Main ingredients and traditional indications versus COVID-19

HXZQ

Ageratum, poriacocos, perilla, angelica, orange peel, radix platycodonis, atractylodes, magnolia officinalis, pinellia, liquorice

Gastrointestinal cold, influenza and upper respiratory tract infections, viral enteritis, diarrhea

Hypodynamia accompanied by gastrointestinal upset, cold without sweating, headache and heaviness, limb pain, thirst with no desire to drink, yellow urine, frequent micturition

LHQW

Forsythia, honeysuckle, ephedra, male fern rhizome, houttuyniae, pogostemon cablin, rheum, rhodiola, menthol, liquorice

Fever, aversion to cold, muscular soreness, stuffy nose runny nose, cough, headache, pharyngoxerosis and pharyngalgia

Hypodynamia and fever

SFJD

Polygonum cuspidatum, forsythia, isatidis, bupleurum, rhizoma corydalis, verbena, reed root, liquorice

Fever, aversion to wind, pharyngalgia, headache, stuffy nose runny nose, cough

Hypodynamia and fever

XBJ

Paeoniae, angelica rhizoma Chuanxiong, flos carthami, salviae miltiorrhizae

Fever, dyspnea, palpitation, dysphoria, infection, viscera damage

Dyspnea, high fever or alternating cold and heat, cough with less phlegm, coma, etc.