Table 2.
The ingredients of each formula.
| Studies | Ingredients of each formula | |||||
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| Bensoussan et al. (1998) [27] | Standard formula | Codonopsis pilosulae (Dang Shen) | Agastaches seu Pogostemi (Huo Xiang) | Ledebouriellae sesloidis (Fang Feng) | Coicis lachryma-jobi (Yi Yi Ren) | Bupleurum chinense (Chai Hu) |
| Artemesiae capillaris (Yin Chen) | Atractylodis macrocephalae (Bai Zhu) | Magnoliae officinalis (Hou Po) | Citri reticulatae (Chen Pi) | Zingiberis officinalis (Pao Jiang) | ||
| Fraxini (Qin Pi) | Poriae cocos (Fu Ling) | Angelica dahurica (Bai Zhi) | Plantaginis (Che Qian Zi) | Phellodendri (Huang Bai) | ||
| Glycyrrhizae uralensis (Zhi Gan Cao) | Paeoniae lactiflorae (Bai Shao) | Saussureae seu vladimirae (Mu Xiang) | Coptidis (Huang Lian) | Schisandrae (Wu Wei Zi) | ||
| Individual group | 81 individual dried powdered Chinese herbs | |||||
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| Luo (2002) [28] | Bupleunrum chinensie (Chai Hu) | Fructus aurantii (Zhi Qiao) | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Saposhnikovia divaricata (Fang Feng) | Radix Codonopsis (Dang Shen) | |
| Fructus mume (Wu Mei) | Citri reticulatae (Chen Pi) | Saussureae seu vladimirae (Mu Xiang) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Glycyrrhizae uralensis (Zhi Gan Cao) | ||
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| Shen et al. (2005) [29, 30] | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Saposhnikovia divaricata (Fang Feng) | Fructus mume (Wu Mei) | Glycyrrhizae preparata (Zhi Gan Cao) | |
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| Wang et al. (2006) [31] | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Citri reticulatae immaturus (Qin Pi) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Allii macrostemonis (Xie Bai) | ||
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| Leung et al. (2006) [18] | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Astragalus membranaceus (Huang Qi) | Paeonia lactiflora (Bai Shao) | Atractylodes chinensis (Cang Zhu) | Bupleurum chinense (Chai Hu) | |
| Citrus reticulata (Chen Pi) | Saposhnikovia divaricata (Fang Feng) | Murraya paniculata (Jiu Li Xiang) | Punica grantum (Shi Liu Pi) | Portulaca oleracea (Ma Chi Xian) | ||
| Coptis chinensis (Huang Lian) | ||||||
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| Cheng (2008) [32] | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Saposhnikovia divaricata (Fang Feng) | And so forth | ||
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| Li et al. (2010) [33] | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Glycyrrhizae preparata (Zhi Gan Cao) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Citri reticulatae (Chen Pi) | Saposhnikovia divaricata (Fang Feng) | |
| Fructus mume (Wu Mei) | ||||||
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| Chen et al. (2010) [34] | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Citri reticulatae immaturus (Qin Pi) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Allii macrostemonis (Xie Bai) | ||
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| Tang et al. (2011) [35] | Astragalus membranaceus (Huang Qi) | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Citri reticulatae (Chenpi) | Coptidis (Huang Lian) | |
| Zingiberis preparata (Paojiang) | Aucklandiae (Mu Xiang) | Saposhnikovia divaricate (Fang Feng) | Myristicae (Rou Doukou) | |||
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| Li (2011) [36] | Semen Myristicae (Rou Dou Kou) | Fructus Psoraleae (Bu Gu Zhi) | Bructus Schisandrae Chinensis (Wu Wei Zi) | Fructus Evodiae Rutaecarpae (Wu Zhu Yu) | Radix Codonopsis (Dang Shen) | |
| Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (Bai Zhu) | Radix Curcumae Wenyujin (Yu Jin) | Rhizoma Zinjiberis Recens (Sheng jiang) | Fructus Jujubae (Da Zao) | |||
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| Su et al. (2013) [37] | Semen Myristicae (Rou Dou Kou) | Fructus Psoraleae (Bu Gu Zhi) | Bructus Schisandrae Chinensis (Wu Wei Zi) | Fructus Evodiae Rutaecarpae (Wu Zhu Yu) | Radix Codonopsis (Dang Shen) | |
| Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (Bai Zhu) | Radix Curcumae Wenyujin (Yu Jin) | Rhizoma Zinjiberis Recens (Sheng Jiang) | Fructus Jujubae (Da Zao) | |||
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| Cai et al. (2012) [38] | Codonopsis pilosulab (Dang Shen) | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Poria cocos (Fu Ling) | Curcumae wenyujin (Yu Jin) | |
| Glycyrrhizae preparata (Zhi Gan Cao) | Alpiniae katsumadai (Cao Dou Kou) | Saposhnikovia divaricate (Fang Feng) | Lablab album (Bai Bian Dou) | Citri reticulatae (Chen Pi) | ||
| Amomum villosum (Sha Ren) | Albiziae (He Huan Pi) | Platycodon grandiflorum (Jie Geng) | Semen coicis (Yi Yi Ren) | |||
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| Ko et al. (2013) [39] | Agastache rugosa (Huo Xiang) | Perilla frutescens (Zhi Su) | Angelica dahurica (Bai Zhi) | Areca catechu (Bing Lang) | Poria cocos (Fu Ling) | |
| Pinellia temate (Ban Xia) | Magnolia officinalis (Hou Po) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Citrus unshiu (Chen Pi) | Zingiber officinale (Sheng Jiang) | ||
| Ziziphus jujube (Da Zao) | Platycodon grandiflorum (Jie Geng) | Glycyrrhizae uralensis (Zhi Gan Cao) | ||||
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| Li et al. (2014) [40] | Paeoniae alba (Bai Shao) | Glycyrrhizae preparata (Zhi Gan Cao) | Atractylodes macrocephala (Bai Zhu) | Citri reticulatae (Chen Pi) | Saposhnikovia divaricata (Fang Feng) | |
| Fructus mume (Wu Mei) | ||||||