Traditional Chinese Medicine works in formulas as much as single herbs: most of what follows is a named combination with a fixed role, recorded in a classical text and still dispensed today. That is also why the evidence is uneven. A few formulas have been through controlled trials; many have centuries of documented use and nothing more, and the grade on each page says which. Where a formula was later adopted into Kampo or Korean practice, it appears on those hubs too.
Not every remedy names a tradition. Browse the full A–Z index for all 3,787 remedies, including the 255 with no recorded tradition.
