Dang Gui Bu Xue Tang is used to treat fever caused by patterns of blood deficiency and floating yang. The symptoms are fever, a red complexion, vexing thirst, and a desire to drink. The pulses are surging, large, and deficient; however, forceless when one feels it with heavy pressure. It is also used to treat fever or headache that results from blood deficiency during pregnancy or after delivery or for ulcers that are slow or difficult to heal after breakout.

This formula is indicated for lung abscesses, and patterns of accumulation and obstruction of heat toxins, binding of phlegm, and blood stasis. The symptoms are coughing with profuse phlegm, coughing or spitting up of foul smelling pus and blood, dull pain in the chest, a red tongue with a greasy yellow coating, and a slippery, rapid pulse.

This formula is indicated for spleen damage due to alcohol accumulation, marked by dizziness, vomiting, fullness and oppression of the chest and diaphragm, aversion to food, tiredness, dysuria, loose stool, a greasy tongue coating, and a slippery pulse.

This formula is indicated for diarrhea with fever. The symptoms are diarrhea, fever, smelly, foul, thick, and sticky stool, burning sensation in the anus, panting with sweating, vexing heat in the chest and stomach cavities, thirst, dark urine, a red tongue body with a yellow coating, and a rapid pulse.