BioEssence Capsules

Tonify the Blood; Warm the womb*

Tonifies blood and stabilizes gestation.*

FORMULA ACTIONS

• Clears Heat
• Resolves toxicity
• Dispels Dampness
• Stops vaginal discharge

Tonifies the yang*

• Activates the functions of the Liver and Kidneys
• Strengthens Qi
• Nourishes the Blood
• Expels Wind and Dampness
• Stops numbness and pain

Tonifies and augments the qi and blood*

Clears heat, decreases Heart fire, relieves excess water*

Enriches Yin & Moistens Dryness*

This formula clears heat with acrid, cold, and sweet substances, as opposed to draining it with bitter and cold herbs.  This is the strategy of choice where excess heat causes or occurs together with damage to the body fluids.*

Clears Heat; removes Toxins; cools Blood.*

Drains heat; Resolves fire toxicity; Cools the blood; Benefits the throat*

This formula tonifies the Spleen; dissolves Phlegm; dispels Wind; eliminates Dampness*

Dries dampness, transforms phlegm, and causes rebellious qi to descend, directs rebellious qi downward and stops vomiting, dissipates nodules and reduces clumps* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Promotes movement of Qi, harmonizes the Stomach, transforms Phlegm, moves Liver Qi, and calms the Spirit

Harmonizes the stomach and downbears counterflow, fortifies the spleen and supplements the qi, clears heat and eliminates dampness from the stomach and intestines, disperses glomus and eliminates distention*

Resolves Qi and food stagnation.*

Clears heat, resolves dampness, and separates the clear from the turbid.*

Dispels Exterior Wind-Heat and Interior Lung Heat*

This formula tonifies the Qi; invigorates Blood circulation; unblocks the Channels*

Tonifies the qi of the middle burner and raises sunken yang.*

Disperses wind, alleviates pain, and unblocks the nose*. (Bensky)

This formula helps gently relieve Shao-Yang syndrome; warms the Interior; clears Cold

Releases the muscle layer and exterior and harmonizes and releases lesser yang-warp disorders*

Courses the liver and rectifies the qi, fortifies the spleen and supplements the qi, clears heat, transforms phlegm, and eliminates dampness, constructs, nourishes, heavily settles, and quiets the spirit*

Courses the liver and rectifies the qi, fortifies the spleen and supplements the qi, clears heat, transforms phlegm, and eliminates dampness, constructs, nourishes, heavily settles, and quiets the spirit*

FORMULA ACTIONS

• Drains Fire
• Relieves toxicity
• Spreads the Liver Qi
• Strengthens the Spleen
• Disperses Wind-Heat
• Improves the physical condition

Courses and harmonizes the liver, resolves depression and rectifies the qi.*

Clears heat and resolves fire toxicity;Clears fire toxin manifestations on the skin such as sores and carbuncles; Clears heat, dries dampness, and stops diarrhea*

Dispels pathogenic Wind; helps alleviate pain*

Regulates lesser yang-stage disorder*

Purges Heat accumulation in the Stomach and Intestines*

FORMULA ACTIONS

• Drains Heat
• Breaks up Blood Stasis
• Invigorates the Blood
• Disperses nodules
• Reduces swelling

"Bitter and slightly cooling, Salviae miltiorrhizae Radix (dan shen) enters the blood level of the Heart, Pericardium, and Liver channels to invigorate the blood, transform stasis, and tonify the blood." - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

FORMULA ACTIONS

• Tonifies Qi
• Generates Blood
• Promotes healing of wounds

The sweetness of Angelicae sinensis Radix (dang gui) tonifies and moistens, its acrid flavor disperses, its bitterness drains, and its warmth unblocks.*

Tonifies the Qi, Blood and Yin; Clears fire; consolidates the Exterior defensive system; decreases spontaneous sweating.*

Resolves dampness, clears heat, disperses wind* - Bensky

Notice: this formula by MinTong does not contain Dang Gui or Anemarrhena!

Tang-Kuei & Peony Formula Granules tonifies Blood; spreads the Liver Qi; tonifies the Spleen; resolves Dampness*

Warms the channels, disperses cold, nourishes the blood, and unblocks the blood vessels.*

Nourishes the blood and moistens dryness, clears heat, dispels wind, and stops itching*

Dispels Wind and Dampness; relieves pain; tonifies Liver and Kidney; nourishes Qi and Blood strengthens tendons and bones; alleviates Obstruction.*

Removes dampness to resolve Phlegm; regulates the Stomach function.*

FORMULA ACTIONS

• Replenishes Kidney Yin and Yang
• Tonifies Kidney Jing
• Purges Deficiency Fire
• Regulates the Chong and Ren

Dispels wind and cold-dampness*

Disperses wind, releases the exterior, drains heat, and unblocks the bowels.*

FORMULA ACTIONS

• Strengthens the Spleen
• Tonifies Qi
• Harmonizes the Middle Jiao
• Promotes digestion
• Regulates the Qi
• Resolves Phlegm and Dampness
• Transforms Damp turbidity

Stabilizes the Kidney qi, stops leakage, and strengthens the Spleen* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas and Strategies

This formula invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis as a means of generating new blood and thereby reviving the health of the patient.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas & Strategies

This formula disperses Cold; warms the abdomen; replenishes the Yang of the Spleen and Stomach; augments the Qi*

Pinellia & Licorice Combination is a variation of Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang and is modified for more severe Stomach qi deficiency.*

Warms the Spleen, transforms thin mucus, unblocks the channels, revives the yang.

Nourishes Yin, Generates Fluids, Clears Heat, Detoxifies the Blood, Stops inflammation, Disseminates Lung Qi, Resolves Dampness

Tonifies the Heart; calms the Spirit; soothes the Middle Burner; helps alleviate spasmodic conditions. It is used to help a person who has hysteria caused by the dehydration of the viscera.*

Raises the clear yang of yang brightness, encourages the Stomach qi and thus releases muscle layer heat and vents rashes; alleviates thirst by raising Stomach fluids. - Bensky

Releases Exterior pathogenic elements; dispels Heat in the Stomach and Intestines*

Releases the exterior and muscle layer and generates fluids.*

Pueraria Flower Decoction is a Hangover Formula

Quickens the blood and dispels stasis, moves the qi and stops pain.*

This formula replenishes Blood; enhances the circulation of Qi.

Nourishes and tonifies the Liver and Kidneys; Benefits the essence and brightens the eyes; Enriches the yin and moistens the Lungs*

Replenishes the Qi; nourishes Blood; strengthens the Spleen; tonifies the Heart*

Regulates Blood, Invigorates Blood and Dispels Xue Stasis*

Cinnamon, Atractyodes & Aconite Decoction warms and transfers Water and Dampness

Cinnamon & Dragon Bone Combination - For Interior Syndrome, it restrains the Essence; suppresses the rebellious Yang; harmonizes the Ying and Yang. For Exterior syndrome, it releases Exterior Wind-Cold

Cinnamon & Dragon Bone Combination - For Interior Syndrome, it restrains the Essence; suppresses the rebellious Yang; harmonizes the Ying and Yang. For Exterior syndrome, it releases Exterior Wind-Cold

Cinnamon & Peony Decoction releases exterior wind-cold

Cinnamon, Peony & Anemarrhena Decoction treats chronic panarthralgia where pathogenic wind-cold-dampness has lingered in the body for a long time, constrained the qi dynamic, and produced heat from constraint that has , inturn, damaged the yin.

Releases pathogenic influences from the muscle layer and regulates the nutritive and protective qi.*

Softens areas of hardness, clears damp-heat - Bensky

Relieves constraint, calms the spirit, regulates the qi, invigorates the blood.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd. ed

Nourishes the blood and yin, preserves the essence. - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Replenishes Blood and is a very popular tonic formula for the Kidneys and Liver.*

Assist the Liver and tonify the blood, support the Spleen and nourish the Stomach* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Sesame Seed Decoction clears skin problems caused by Wind-Heat

Phellodendron & Terrapin Decoction enriches yin, descends fire and strenghtens the sinews

Invigorates the blood, breaks up stasis, expels pathogenic wind, eliminates dampness, cools heat, and resolves toxicity.* (from Chinese Herbal Medicine Materica Medica, 3rd ed.)

Invigorates the blood, breaks up stasis, expels pathogenic wind, eliminates dampness, cools heat, and resolves toxicity.* (from Chinese Herbal Medicine Materica Medica, 3rd ed.)

Lycium Decoction Tonifies the Spleen and Kidneys, Nourishes the Heart, Enriches the Yin, Nourishes the Blood and Yang, Augments Qi

Cools heat, drains fire (especially in the Heart and Stomach), dries dampness, resolves toxicity - Bensky

Clears Heat; Expels Wind*

Raises the yang qi, tonifies the Spleen and Lung qi, stops sweating, facilitates urination, promotes the discharge of pus, generates flesh* - Bensky

Astragalus & Cinnamon Five Herb Combo augments the Qi; replenishes Blood; warms and harmonizes the Channels; clears Cold; unblocks obstruction.

Clears heat, harmonizes the middle burner* - Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas & Strategies.

Dispels turbid Dampness in the Spleen and Stomach; clears pathogenic influences from the Exterior of the body.*

Reduces all types of food stagnation, stops enuresis, dissolves stones* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Warms the Yang; nourishes the Kidneys; strengthens the Qi to transform Water; promotes urination; reduces edema.*

Magnolia & Ginger Formula Plus - Reduce Food Stagnation

Disperses congested Liver-Qi; removes Heat; strengthens the Spleen; nourishes Blood.*

Polygonatum & Eucommia Decoction moderates excess Liver Yang and deficient Kidney Yin

Moistens lungs, dispels phlegm, clears heat, eliminates toxins, reduces inflammation, lowers BP and cholesterol

Causes the qi and the actions of other herbs to rise, soothes the throat, releases the exterior, transforms phlegm, expels pus.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

This formula strengthens the Kidneys; consolidates the semen; is an astringent.

Schizonepeta & Siler Decoction induces sweating, release the exterior, dispel wind and alleviate pain.

Schizonepeta & Forsythia Decoction dispels wind, clears heat, disperses stagnation, and resoles toxicity

Promotes the movement of qi, alleviates pain, softens hardness, and dissipates clumps.*

Disperses and clears wind-heat; Calms the Liver and clears the eyes; Calms the Liver and extinguishes wind; Resolves toxicity. - Bensky

Regulate The Middle Decoction fortifies the spleen and warms the middle

Lotus Seed Decoction dispels intense Fire in the Heart; nourishes the Qi and Yin; purges Damp-Heat; soothes disturbed nervous energy.*

Poria, Cinnamon, Atractylodis & Licorice Decoction reinforces the Spleen; resolves Dampness; transforms Stagnation of Phlegm and congested Fluids by warm herbs.

Expels hot Phlegm; clears Heat; helps stop coughing; helps alleviate difficulty breathing caused by Phlegm obstruction.*

Revitalizes the Qi; strengthens the Spleen and Stomach; resolves Phlegm and Dampness; helps stop vomiting.*

Reinforces the Yin; tonifies the Liver and Kidneys.*

This formula sedates excess Heat or Fire in the Liver and Gallbladder; dispels Damp-Heat from the Lower Burner.*

Facilitates the flow of Lung qi, clears heat, and calms wheezing by directing rebellious qi downward.*

Moistens the Intestines; enhances the Qi circulation; clears Heat; promotes bowel movement.*

Benefits the Stomach, generates fluids, and directs rebellious qi downward.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas & Strategies

Fritillaria & Platycodon Decoction clears the Lungs, Disperses Stagnation, Dissolves Phlegm, Relieves cough

Calm The Stomach Decoction dries dampness, improves the Spleen's transportive function, promotes the movement of qi, and harmonizes the Stomach*

Scute & Cimicifuga Combination - Universal Benefit Disperse Toxin Cool-Decoction Pills / Scute & Cimicifuga Combo - Clear heat and Relieve Toxicity

Replenishes the Kidneys and Liver Yin; nourishes Liver Blood.*

This formula nourishes the Kidneys Yin; tonifies the Liver; brightens the eyes.*

This formula replenishes the Yin; tonifies Blood; purges Heat; helps relieve steaming bone heat disorder. For coughing due to consumption of the lungs. This formula was specifically designed for treating wind consumption (feng lao), which is attributed to improper or unsuccessful treatment of an externally-contracted disorder in a patient with underlying yin deficiency.

Clears Lungs Heat; enhances the circulation of the Lungs Qi; tonifies the Lungs and Yin Essence; eliminates Phlegm; helps stop coughing.*

Clear Lung Decoction Clears Lung, Restrains Fire*

Clears all types of yin level heat with-out injuring the qi, blood, or yin.*

This formula eliminates Heat from the Lungs; dissolves Phlegm; reverses the ascension of rebellious Qi; is an anti-tussive and expectorant.*

Siler Decoction clears excess Interior Heat in the Upper Burner and resolving Exogenous Wind-Heat type condition.

Clear Dampness & Phlegm Decoction clears Phlegm and Dampness from the Channels.

Drains Stomach fire, cools the blood, and nourishes the ying.

Arctium Decoction clears Fire; resolves Phlegm; expels Toxins; antiseptic; helps alleviate inflammation; promotes urination.

Eliminate Dryness & Rescue The Lungs Decoction removes dryness and moistens the Lungs.

Releases the exterior, dispels wind and dampness, and augments the qi.*

Powerfully tonifies the primal qi of the five organs, nourishes the yin, revives from collapse*

Tonifies Qi, Nourishes the Blood, Warms Yang, Strengthens the Spleen and Lungs, Nourishes the Heart, Calms the Shen*

Nourishes the Liver and Kidneys; tonifies Blood; augments the Qi; dispels Wind; resolves Dampness.*

Coptis & Rhubarb Decoction is a purgative formula used to help Damp Heat

Stops bleeding and transforms blood stasis.Reduces swelling and alleviates pain.* -From Bensky "Chinese Herbal Medicine Materica Medica, 3rd ed, p. 560.

Clears heat, resolves toxicity, reduces swelling, induces ulceration, moves the blood, and dispels stasis*

This formula acts as a diaphoretic; dispels Wind and Heat; anti-tussive.*

Reduces food stagnation, especially from meat and greasy foods, invigorates the blood flow.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Invigorates the Blood circulation; eliminates Blood Stasis; helps alleviate pain by warming the Channels.*

Peony & Licorice Decoction - Harmonize Speen and Intestines Formula

This formula clears Heat; eliminates Toxins; helps relieve pain by regulating and harmonizing the circulation of the Qi and Blood.

Ginseng, Poria & Atractylodes Decoction replenishes Qi, strengthens the Spleen and Stomach, resolves Dampness and food stagnation due to Spleen Deficiency.

Ginseng & Perillia Combination - release the exterior and help the righteous

Invigorates Blood; enhances the Qi circulation; eliminates Blood Stasis in the Channels; helps relieve pain.*

Enriches the yin, cools the blood, clears heat*

Enriches the yin, cools the blood, clears heat*

Generating & Transforming Decoction invigorates the blood, transforms and dispels blood stasis, warms the menses, and alleviates pain.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas & Strategies

Dispersing in nature, benefits the Stomach, transforms phlegm* - Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas & Strategies

Augments the Qi; replenishes the Yin; generates Fluid; helps stop profuse sweating; nourishes the Lungs.*

Tang kuei Four Plus Combination augments the Qi; tonifies Blood; promotes the circulation of Blood.

Tang Kuei Sixteen Herb Combination dissolves lumps, severe abscesses or enlargements due to long-term Qi Stagnation; it is especially effective for undiagnosable Intestinal problems

Warms and tonifies the qi and blood* - Bensky

• Dispels Wind
• Transforms Dampness
• Regulates the Liver
• Clears Heat
• Resolves toxicity*

This formula enhances Blood flow in the Channels; strengthens the tendons; dispels Blood Stasis and Wind-Dampness in the Channels.*

Tonifies the Qi; nourishes and strengthens the Spleen and Stomach functions.*

Spreads the Liver Qi; regulates the Spleen; expels pathogenic influences.*

"Rescues devastated yang, warms the middle burner"* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas & Strategies.

"Rescues devastated yang, warms the middle burner"* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas & Strategies.

Cools the blood*

Replenishes Blood; invigorates the circulation of Blood; regulates the Liver.*

Replenishes Blood; invigorates the circulation of Blood; regulates the Liver.*

Reverses the ascension of rebellious Qi; resolves Cold-Phlegm; helps alleviate difficulty in breathing; helps stop coughing.*

Nourishes the Heart yin and Liver blood, promotes sleep, inhibits sweating* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Calms the Spirit; replenishes Liver Blood; disperses Liver Heat.*

Peach Pit To Order The Qi Decoction drains Heat; removes Blood Stasis.*

This formula nourishes and invigorates Blood; removes Stasis; regulates menstruation.

Calms the Liver with gentle nourishment, extinguishes wind. - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Sedates the Liver by subduing Wind in the Liver Channel; clears Heat; invigorates Blood; nourishes the Liver and Kidneys.*

Replenishes the Yin; tonifies the Heart; nourishes Blood; calms the Spirit.*

Cinnamon & Angelica Decoction Clears Heat, Dries Dampness, Activates the Blood, Dispels Wind

Warms the primal yang, nourishes the yin, secures the essence, tonifies the Kidneys, Liver, and Spleen without being cloying* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Dispels Spleen Dampness; regulates the Qi circulation in the Spleen and Stomach.*

Regulates the Qi; resolves Damp Phlegm; is an expectorant; sedative; clears Gallbladder; soothes the Stomach.*

Warms the channels, especially the Liver and the Kidney; expels cold; nourishes the blood; expels Blood stagnation; strengthens Kidney function.*

Clears heat and resolves toxins, nourishes and quickens the blood, stops bleeding*

This formula releases the Exterior; warms the Interior; resolves Phlegm; invigorates Blood; decreases accumulation.*

Gardenia & Poria Decoction dispels Dampness through enhancing urination; warms the Yang; strengthens the Spleen.*

Dispels Dampness through enhancing urination; warms the Yang; strengthens the Spleen.*

Strengthens the Spleen; regulates the flow of the Spleen Qi; dispels Dampness through urination; helps decrease edema.*

Contains leakage of Lung qi, grasps the qi, enriches the Kidneys, stops diarrhea, nourishes the Liver, quiets the spirit, generates fluids - Bensky*

This formula helps eye disorders originated from Wind-Heat.

Replenishes the Spleen and Stomach Qi; helps relieve distention in the abdomen caused by Cold and Dampness; helps alleviate morning sickness; resolves Stagnation of Water and food.*

Cyperus & Cluster Combination harmonizes the spleen and stomach and eliminates dampness*

Gasping Decoction clears heat, cools the throat, dispels phlegm, and disperses accumulations*

Helps gently relieve Shao-Yang disorders; expels pathogenic factors from the Exterior to reduce fever.*

This formula moderately dispels excess Heat in the Stomach and Intestines.*