桂枝汤 治太阳经伤风发热。自汗恶风。
桂枝 芍药 甘草
麻黄汤 治太阳经伤寒发热。无汗恶寒。
麻黄 桂枝 甘草 杏仁
小柴胡汤 治少阳胆经耳聋胁痛。寒热往来。口苦。
柴胡 黄芩 甘草
大柴胡汤 表证未除。而里证又急。汗下兼行。
柴胡 黄芩 芍药 半夏 人参 大黄 枳实
白虎汤 治身热大渴而有汗。脉洪大者。如无渴者。不可用此药。为大忌。倘是阴虚发热。服之者
死。若五六月暑病者。必用此方。又当审其虚实。
石膏 知母 甘草 人参 竹叶 糯米
调胃承气汤 治太阳阳明。不恶寒反恶热。大便秘结而呕。日晡潮热者。阳明有二证。在经则解肌。
入腑则攻下。
大黄 甘草 芒硝
小承气汤 六七日不大便。腹胀满闷。病在阳明表证。汗后不恶寒。潮热狂言而喘者。
大黄 浓朴 枳实
大承气汤 治阳明太阴谵语。五六日不大便。腹满烦渴。并少阴舌干口燥。日晡发热脉沉实者。
大黄 浓朴 枳实 芒硝
桃仁承气汤 治外证已解。小腹急。大便黑。小便利。为瘀血证。
四逆散 治阳气亢极。血脉不通。四肢厥逆。在臂胫之下。若阴证则上过乎肘。下过乎膝。以此为辨也。
柴胡 芍药 甘草 枳实
理中汤 治即病太阴。自利不渴。寒多而腹痛等证。
人参 甘草 干姜 白术 加附子。即为附子理中汤。
真武汤
茯苓 芍药 生姜 附子 白术
四逆汤
附子 干姜 甘草
术附汤
白术 甘草 附子
姜附汤
干姜 附子
回阳返本汤 此方治阴盛格阳。阴极发躁。渴而面赤。欲坐卧泥水中。脉来无力。或脉全无欲绝者。
熟附 干姜 甘草 人参 五味 黄连 腊茶
面戴阳者。下虚也。加连须葱白七茎。用澄清泥浆水煎。临服须以冷水探冷。入猪胆汁人尿各一
匙服。无脉者脉渐出者生。暴出者死。
生地黄连汤
生地 川芎 当归 栀子 黄连 黄芩 芍药 防风
桂枝汤：治疗太阳经受邪所致的伤风发热。症状表现为自汗、恶风。
药物组成：桂枝、芍药、甘草。
麻黄汤：治疗太阳经受寒邪所致的伤寒发热。症状表现为无汗、恶寒。
药物组成：麻黄、桂枝、甘草、杏仁。
小柴胡汤：治疗少阳胆经受邪所致的耳聋、胁痛。症状表现为寒热往来、口苦。
药物组成：柴胡、黄芩、甘草。
大柴胡汤：适用于表证未除，而里证又急迫的情况。治法为汗法与下法兼用。
药物组成：柴胡、黄芩、芍药、半夏、人参、大黄、枳实。
白虎汤：治疗身体高热、极度口渴且伴有出汗，脉象洪大的病证。如果没有口渴症状，不可使用此药，这是大禁忌。如果是阴虚发热，服用此药会导致死亡。若是五六月间的暑病，必须使用此方，但应当仔细辨别虚实。
药物组成：石膏、知母、甘草、人参、竹叶、糯米。
调胃承气汤：治疗太阳病传入阳明经的病证。症状表现为不恶寒反而恶热，大便秘结并伴有呕吐，日晡时（下午3-5点）出现潮热。阳明病有两种证型：在经则用解肌法，入腑则用攻下法。
药物组成：大黄、甘草、芒硝。
小承气汤：治疗六七日不大便，腹部胀满闷痛。病位在阳明表证，发汗后不再恶寒，出现潮热、胡言乱语及气喘的症状。
药物组成：大黄、厚朴、枳实。
大承气汤：治疗阳明病和太阴病出现的谵语，五六天不大便，腹部胀满、烦躁口渴，以及少阴病出现的舌干口燥，日晡时发热、脉象沉实的病证。
药物组成：大黄、厚朴、枳实、芒硝。
桃仁承气汤：治疗外证已解除，小腹拘急，大便色黑，小便通畅，属于瘀血证。
四逆散：治疗阳气亢盛至极，血脉不通，导致四肢厥冷（寒冷）。厥冷的范围如果在手臂和小腿以下，若为阴证则厥冷会超过肘部，低于膝盖，以此作为鉴别诊断。
药物组成：柴胡、芍药、甘草、枳实。
理中汤：治疗即病（发病初期）的太阴病。症状表现为自发性腹泻且不口渴，寒气重且腹痛等证候。
药物组成：人参、甘草、干姜、白术。加入附子，即为附子理中汤。
回阳返本汤：此方治疗阴寒内盛格拒阳气于外（阴盛格阳），阴寒极盛导致虚性躁动，口渴且面色发红，想要坐卧在泥水中，脉象无力，或者脉象微弱欲绝的病证。
药物组成：熟附子、干姜、甘草、人参、五味子、黄连、腊茶。
面部泛红如戴阳者，是由于下焦虚寒所致。需加带须葱白七茎，用澄清的泥浆水煎煮。服药前需用冷水探喉催吐以引火下行，服药时加入猪胆汁和人尿各一匙。无脉象者若脉象逐渐恢复则生，若突然复出则死。
Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction): Treats wind-stroke fever caused by pathogenic invasion of the Taiyang channel (diseases resulting from pathogenic invasion of the Taiyang meridian). Symptoms include spontaneous sweating and aversion to wind.
Ingredients: Guizhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi), Shaoyao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae).
Mahuang Tang (Ephedra Decoction): Treats fever due to cold-stroke caused by pathogenic invasion of the Taiyang channel. Symptoms include absence of sweating and aversion to cold.
Ingredients: Mahuang (Herba Ephedrae), Guizhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Xingren (Semen Pruni Armeniacae).
Xiao Chaihu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction): Treats deafness and hypochondriac pain caused by pathogenic invasion of the Shaoyang Gallbladder channel. Symptoms include alternating chills and fever, and bitter taste in the mouth.
Ingredients: Chaihu (Radix Bupleuri), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae).
Da Chaihu Tang (Major Bupleurum Decoction): Indicated when exterior syndromes remain unresolved while interior syndromes are urgent. The treatment method combines diaphoresis (sweating) and purgation.
Ingredients: Chaihu (Radix Bupleuri), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae), Shaoyao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), Banxia (Rhizoma Pinelliae), Renshen (Radix Ginseng), Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei), Zhishi (Fructus Aurantii Immaturus).
Baitu Tang (White Tiger Decoction): Treats high fever, extreme thirst with sweating, and a surging pulse (Hongda pulse). If there is no thirst, this medicine must not be used; it is a major contraindication. If the fever is due to Yin deficiency, taking this will cause death. For summerheat diseases occurring in the fifth and sixth lunar months, this formula must be used, but one must carefully distinguish between deficiency and excess.
Ingredients: Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum), Zhimu (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Renshen (Radix Ginseng), Zhuye (Folium Bambusae), Nuomi (Semen Oryzae Glutinosi).
Tiaowei Chengqi Tang (Regulating the Stomach and Directing Downward Decoction): Treats syndromes where Taiyang disease transmits to the Yangming channel. Symptoms include aversion to heat rather than cold, constipation accompanied by vomiting, and tidal fever at Dingwu time (3-5 PM). Yangming disease has two presentations: if in the channel, use muscle-releasing methods; if entering the fu organs, use purgative methods.
Ingredients: Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Mangxiao (Natrii Sulfas).
Xiao Chengqi Tang (Minor Directing Downward Decoction): Treats cases of no bowel movement for six or seven days, abdominal distension and fullness. The pathology is in the Yangming exterior syndrome; after sweating, there is no longer aversion to cold, but instead tidal fever, delirious speech, and wheezing.
Ingredients: Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei), Houpo (Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis), Zhishi (Fructus Aurantii Immaturus).
Da Chengqi Tang (Major Directing Downward Decoction): Treats delirium in Yangming and Taiyin syndromes, no bowel movement for five or six days, abdominal fullness, irritability, and thirst. It also treats dry tongue and parched mouth in Shaoyin syndromes, along with tidal fever and a deep, solid pulse.
Ingredients: Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei), Houpo (Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis), Zhishi (Fructus Aurantii Immaturus), Mangxiao (Natrii Sulfas).
Taoren Chengqi Tang (Peach Kernel Directing Downward Decoction): Treats cases where exterior symptoms have resolved, presenting with urgency in the lower abdomen, black stool, and free urination, indicating a blood stasis syndrome.
Sini San (Recover from Extremity Cold Powder): Treats extreme hyperactivity of Yang qi causing blockage of blood vessels, leading to cold extremities (Jue-ni). If the cold extends below the arms and shins, it distinguishes itself from Yin syndromes where cold extends above the elbows and below the knees.
Ingredients: Chaihu (Radix Bupleuri), Shaoyao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Zhishi (Fructus Aurantii Immaturus).
Lizhong Tang (Regulate the Middle Decoction): Treats Taiyin disease occurring immediately upon onset. Symptoms include spontaneous diarrhea without thirst, abundant cold, and abdominal pain.
Ingredients: Renshen (Radix Ginseng), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae). Adding Fuzi creates Fuzi Lizhong Tang.
Zhenwu Tang (True Warrior Decoction)
Ingredients: Fuling (Poria), Shaoyao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), Shengjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens), Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae).
Sini Tang (Recover from Extremity Cold Decoction)
Ingredients: Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata), Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae).
Shu Fu Tang (Atractylodes and Aconite Decoction)
Ingredients: Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata).
Jiang Fu Tang (Ginger and Aconite Decoction)
Ingredients: Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens), Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata).
Huiyang Fanben Tang (Restore Yang and Return to Origin Decoction): This formula treats Yin excess repelling Yang outward (Yin-sheng Ge-yang), extreme Yin causing false agitation, thirst with red face, desire to sit or lie in mud/water, weak pulse, or pulse that is faint and nearly absent.
Ingredients: Shu Fuzi (Prepared Radix Aconiti Lateralis), Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Renshen (Radix Ginseng), Wuwei Zi (Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis), Huanglian (Rhizoma Coptidis), La Cha (Old Tea Leaves).
For facial flushing resembling Dai-yang (floating Yang), indicating lower jiao deficiency, add seven stalks of scallion whites with roots. Decoct using clarified muddy water. Before administration, induce vomiting with cold water to guide fire downward. Take with one spoonful each of pig bile and human urine. If the pulse is absent, gradual return indicates survival; sudden return indicates death.
Shengdi Huanglian Tang (Rehmannia and Coptis Decoction)
Ingredients: Shengdi Huang (Radix Rehmanniae Preparata), Chuanxiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong), Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis), Zhizi (Fructus Gardeniae), Huanglian (Rhizoma Coptidis), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae), Shaoyao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), Fangfeng (Radix Saposhnikoviae).