Table 2.

Main ingredients and traditional indications versus COVID-19

	Main ingredients	Traditional indications	COVID-19
HXZQ	Ageratum, poriacocos, perilla, angelica, orange peel, radix platycodonis, atractylodes, magnolia officinalis, pinellia, liquorice	Gastrointestinal cold, influenza and upper respiratory tract infections, viral enteritis, diarrhea	Hypodynamia accompanied by gastrointestinal upset, cold without sweating, headache and heaviness, limb pain, thirst with no desire to drink, yellow urine, frequent micturition
LHQW	Forsythia, honeysuckle, ephedra, male fern rhizome, houttuyniae, pogostemon cablin, rheum, rhodiola, menthol, liquorice	Fever, aversion to cold, muscular soreness, stuffy nose runny nose, cough, headache, pharyngoxerosis and pharyngalgia	Hypodynamia and fever
SFJD	Polygonum cuspidatum, forsythia, isatidis, bupleurum, rhizoma corydalis, verbena, reed root, liquorice	Fever, aversion to wind, pharyngalgia, headache, stuffy nose runny nose, cough	Hypodynamia and fever
XBJ	Paeoniae, angelica rhizoma Chuanxiong, flos carthami, salviae miltiorrhizae	Fever, dyspnea, palpitation, dysphoria, infection, viscera damage	Dyspnea, high fever or alternating cold and heat, cough with less phlegm, coma, etc.