Table 6. The Frequency of Mostly Used Korean Medicine Herbs from A Total of 32 Formulas. (Alphabetical order if frequencies are identical.)

Herbal name in Latin Chinese name Frequency
Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma 甘草 22
Angelicae Gigantis Radix 當歸 19
Poria Sclerotium 茯苓 18
Paeoniae Radix 白芍藥* 16
Citri Unshius Pericarpium 陳皮 13
Atractylodis Rhizoma Alba 白朮 12
Cnidii Rhizoma 川芎 12
Astragali Radix 黃芪 11
Ginseng Radix 人蔘 11
Rehmanniae Radix 地黃 11
Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens 生薑 11
Rehmanniae Radix Preparata 熟地黃 9
Atractylodis Rhizoma 蒼朮 8
Bupleuri Radix 柴胡 7
Lithospermi Radix 紫根 7
Moutan Radicis Cortex 牡丹皮 7
Phellodendri Cortex 黃柏 7
Achyranthis Radix 牛膝 6
Alismatis Rhizoma 澤瀉 5
Amomi Fructus 砂仁 5
Aucklandiae Radix 木香 5
Crataegi Fructus 山楂 5
Dioscoreae Rhizoma 山藥 5
Gardeniae Fructus 梔子 5
Magnoliae Cortex 厚朴 5
Platycodonis Radix 桔梗 5
Saposhnikoviae Radix 防風 5
Scutellariae Radix 黃芩 5
Zizyphi Fructus 大棗 5
Zizyphi Semen 酸棗仁 5
Paeoniae Radix Alba(白芍藥)is not defined in Korean herbal pharmacopoeia while Paeoniae Radix Alba(白芍藥)and Paeoniae Radix Rubra(赤芍藥)are distinctively defined in Chinese herbal pharmacopoeia.
Including Rehmanniae Radix Recens(生地黃)
Including Arnebiae Radix(紫草) which is not defined in Korean herbal pharmacopoeia but in Chinese herbal pharmacopoeia.