Qian Zheng San is indicated for wind attacking the channels and collaterals on the head and face characterized by deviation of the mouth and eyes, facial muscle twitch, and a light red tongue body with a white tongue coating.

This formula is indicated for:
1. Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach. The symptoms include chronic stomachache which can be reduced by warmth and pressure, vomiting, loose stool, distention and fullness of the stomach, poor appetite, fear of cold, cold limbs, a pale tongue with a white coating, and a deep, thin pulse or deep, slow and feeble pulse.
2. Blood loss due to spleen yang deficiency. The symptoms are bloody stool, spitting of blood, nose bleeding, and menstrual flooding and spotting with pale and thin blood.
3. Chest bi syndrome due to deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach. Besides the obstruction of qi in the chest, other symptoms include stuffiness and fullness in the chest and stomach, qi counter-flowing to the chest, profuse saliva after the illness, or chronic infantile convulsions.

Ling Jiao Gou Teng Tang is indicated for a pattern of exuberant heat stirring wind. The symptoms are persistent high fever, irritability, restlessness, twitching and spasms of the extremities, convulsions, coma, a dark red tongue body with a dry tongue coating, or a burnt tongue with prickles, and a wiry, rapid pulse.

Xiao Yao San is indicated for the pattern of liver constraint, blood deficiency, and spleen weakness, characterized by rib-side pain, headache, dizziness, dry mouth, dry throat, mental fatigue, reduced food intake, menstrual irregularities, distending pain of the breasts, and a wiry, deficient pulse.