Components | Flavor | Meridian distributions | Functions | Staus |
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Gancao | Sweet, natured | Heart, lung, spleen, stomach | Invigorating qi, clearing heat and detoxifying | Jun (monarch) |
Ginseng | Bitter, warm | Spleen, lungs, heart | Replenishing Qi, producing Jin, calming the mind | Chen (minister) |
Yuzhu | Sweet, natured | Lung, spleen, stomach | Nourishing Yin, moistening dryness and quenching thirst | Chen (minister) |
Pugongying | Sweet, cool | Liver and stomach | Clearing heat and detoxifying, detumescence and dispersing knot | Zuo (assistant) |
Ganjiang | Acrid, heat | Spleen, stomach, kidney, heart, lung | Warming the cold, backing to Yang, warming the lung | Zuo (assistant) |
Luohanguo | Sweet, cool | Lung, large intestine | Clearing the heat and moistening the lung, smoothing bowel laxity | Zuo (assistant) |
Dazhao | Sweet, warm | Spleen, stomach | Tonifying qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind, and relieving the properties | Shi (guider) |