No.   Name   Combination   Action   Indication   Thumbnail
1   Major Bupleurum Decoction   Bupleuri Radix; Scutellariae Radix; Paeoniae Radix Alba; Pinelliae Rhizoma; Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens; Aurantii Fructus Immaturus;
Jujubae Fructus; Rhei Radix et Rhizoma
  Harmonizes shaoyang and drains interior heat bind.   This formula treats a combined shaoyang-yangming pattern characterized by alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib-side, frequent vomiting,
constant vexation, epigastric pi and hardness or epigastric fullness and pain, constipation or diarrhea with fever, a yellow tongue coating, and a powerful wiry, rapid pulse.
 
2   Minor Bupleurum Decoction   Bupleuri Radix; Scutellariae Radix; Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Pinelliae Rhizoma; Zingiberis Rhizoma
Recens; Jujubae Fructus
  Harmonizes the shaoyang.   1. Cold damage entering the shaoyang. The symptoms are alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib-side, no desire to eat or drink, vexation
and frequent vomiting, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, dizzy vision, a thin white tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.
2. Heat entering the blood chamber (uterus). The symptoms are feminine wind-invasion syndrome, inhibited menstrual flow, periodic alternating chills and fever, malaria, and jaundice when the patient shows signs of a shaoyang pattern.
 
3   Pinellia Heart-Draining Decoction   Pinelliae Rhizoma; Scutellariae Radix; Zingiberis Rhizoma; Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma; Coptidis Rhizoma; Jujubae Fructus; Glycyrrhizae
Radix et Rhizoma
  Disperses pi and dissipates masses through the combination of cold and warm medicinals.   Pi is caused by the binding of cold and heat, marked by stuffiness below the heart, fullness without pain, vomiting, borborygmus, diarrhea, and a slightly yellow, greasy
coating.
 
4   Frigid Extremities Powder   Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma Praeparata cum Melle; Aurantii Fructus Immaturus; Bupleuri Radix; Paeoniae Radix Alba   Moves qi, resolves the constraint, soothes the liver, and rectifies the spleen.   1. Pattern of yang constraint and reversal counterflow cold of the limbs, marked by a lack of warmth in the extremities, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery tenesmus, and
a wiry pulse.
2. Pattern of disharmony of the liver and spleen, marked by distention and fullness in the rib-side, pain in the stomach cavity and abdomen, and a wiry pulse.