When building a tincture pharmacy designed for customization and blending, these are the formulas we consider the essential foundation. Together, they allow practitioners to confidently address the vast majority of clinical presentations encountered in everyday practice—from acute respiratory infections and digestive complaints to fertility, women's health, chronic fatigue, insomnia, pain, and constitutional deficiencies.

Rather than stocking hundreds of individual formulas, this carefully selected collection creates a flexible herbal pharmacy that can be mixed and matched to produce highly individualized prescriptions while keeping inventory efficient and practical.

Women's Health & Fertility

These formulas form the backbone of gynecological practice, supporting healthy menstrual cycles, fertility, postpartum recovery, menopause, and hormonal balance.

• Xiao Yao San
• Jia Wei Xiao Yao San
• Gui Pi Tang
• Si Wu Tang
• Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan
• Gui Shao Di Huang Wan

Digestive Health & Spleen Support

Digestive dysfunction is one of the most common patterns seen in clinic. These formulas strengthen digestion, transform Dampness, regulate the middle burner, and provide an excellent foundation for countless customized prescriptions.

• Si Jun Zi Tang
• Shen Ling Bai Zhu San
• Ping Wei San
• Wen Dan Tang
• Yue Ju Wan
• Ma Zi Ren Wan

Sleep, Stress & Emotional Wellness

Modern patients frequently present with chronic stress, anxiety, insomnia, burnout, and emotional dysregulation. These formulas nourish the Heart, calm the Shen, regulate Qi, and restore restful sleep.

• Suan Zao Ren Tang
• Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
• Gui Pi Tang
• Wen Dan Tang

Kidney Tonics & Healthy Aging

These foundational Kidney formulas support fertility, healthy aging, hormonal balance, adrenal recovery, and long-term constitutional vitality.

• Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
• Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
• Zuo Gui Wan
• You Gui Wan
• Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan

Exterior & Immune Support

When patients first become ill, timing is everything. These formulas help practitioners respond quickly to early Wind-Cold and Wind-Heat presentations while providing versatile options for immune support.

• Yin Qiao San
• Ge Gen Tang
• Gui Zhi Tang
• Ma Huang Tang
• Herbal First Responder Formula (Shuang Huang Lian Kou Fu Ye)

Respiratory Health

Support acute and chronic respiratory conditions ranging from early colds to lingering coughs, allergies, and cold-phlegm presentations.

• Xiao Qing Long Tang
• Sheng Mai San

Pain, Blood Stasis & Circulation

These formulas improve circulation, regulate Blood, resolve stagnation, and support recovery from chronic pain, trauma, cardiovascular patterns, and gynecological blood stasis.

• Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
• Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan

Heat, Damp & Inflammation

When excess Heat, Dampness, toxicity, or inflammation become the dominant pattern, these formulas provide broad clinical coverage for many acute presentations.

• Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
• Huang Lian Jie Du Tang

Recovery & Constitutional Support

These formulas help restore patients recovering from chronic illness, overwork, post-viral fatigue, and constitutional depletion by rebuilding Qi, Yin, and overall resilience.

• Sheng Mai San
• Gui Pi Tang
• Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
• Si Jun Zi Tang

Why These 30 Formulas?

Together, these thirty formulas create a remarkably complete herbal pharmacy capable of addressing the patterns practitioners encounter every day. They provide broad clinical coverage across:

• Women's health and fertility
• Digestive disorders
• Sleep and emotional wellness
• Kidney deficiency and healthy aging
• Immune support and acute illness
• Respiratory conditions
• Pain and Blood stagnation
• Dampness, Heat, and inflammation
• Constitutional recovery and chronic fatigue

Because every Urban Herbs tincture is crafted for blending, this collection becomes far more powerful than thirty individual formulas. By combining them in different proportions, practitioners can create hundreds of customized prescriptions tailored to each patient's unique presentation—all while maintaining a streamlined, space-saving herbal pharmacy.

Whether you're building your first herbal dispensary or expanding an established practice, these formulas represent the core of a modern classical Chinese herbal pharmacy: timeless formulas, practitioner-focused flexibility, and ready-to-dispense convenience.