TABLE 3.
Ingredients in Kampo ointments and corresponding quantities and fractions for excipients and herbs.
| Quantities of ingredients (g) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shiunkō | Chuōkō | Shinsen Taitsukō | ||||
| Sesame oil | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| Beeswax | 340 | 380 | 400 | |||
| Lard | 20 | – | – | |||
| Herb a | L. erythrorhizon | 120 | C. longa | 40 | – | |
| Herb b | A. acutiloba | 60 | Phellodendron sp. | 20 | – | |
| Mix of herbs | – | – | A. acutiloba, A. dahurica, and C. cassia, | 32 | ||
| P. lactiflora, R. glutinosa, Rheum sp., and Scrophularia sp. | ||||||
| Fractions (%) | ||||||
| Percentage of excipients | 88.3 | 95.8 | 86.2 | |||
| Percentage of herbs | 11.7 | 4.2 | 13.8 | |||