ABSTRACT
Effects of drug components in Sho-saiko-to. In order to develop a formulation based on the principles described in the first section, it is necessary to know the effects of each of the constituent drugs. The old medical text, Pen Ts’ao Shiyi (Compendium of Materia Medica), describes the effects of many historically known drug components. However, these effects are not the same as the modern day pharmacological effects but rather have been handed down based on experience; these are thus termed pharmacological function. Table 2.1 lists the pharmacological functions of drugs in Sho-saiko-to in modern terminology and compares them to the currently known pharmacological effects.
