Yi Huang Tang is indicated for patients with abnormal vaginal discharge due to damp-heat accumulation. Symptoms include excessive yellow, sticky, thick leucorrhea. The yellow discoloration may have the appearance of dark tea in severe cases. Generally, the tongue body is red and the coating is greasy, yellow.

1. Zhi Gan Cao Tang is indicated for patterns of yin-blood and yang-qi deficiency with malnutrition of the heart vessel. The symptoms are intermittent or knotted pulse, palpitations, weakness, emaciation, weak breathing, etc. The tongue is peeled with a scanty or dry and thin coating.
2. Zhi Gan Cao Tang is indicated for deficiency-consumption and lung atrophy. The symptoms are dry cough without expectoration, or spitting up a small amount of saliva, emaciation, shortness of breath, insomnia, vexation, spontaneous sweating or night sweat, a dry throat and tongue, dry stool, and a deficient, rapid pulse.

Qiang Huo Sheng Shi Tang is indicated for bi syndrome caused by wind-dampness in the exterior. The symptoms are pain of the shoulder and back, headache and heavy body sensation, pain of the waist and spine that make the patient unable to turn over. The coating is white and the pulse is floating.

Jin Ling Zi San is indicated for the pattern of liver constraint transforming into fire. The symptoms are chest, abdominal, and hypochondriac pain of sudden onset and cease; bitter taste in the mouth, painful menstruation, and shan qi-hernia pain. The tongue is red and the coating is yellow. The pulse is wiry and rapid.