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There are 64 therapeutic methods in the design of TCM formulas*:

1. Relieving The Exterior With Pungent And Warm Herbs
2. Relieving The Exterior With Pungent And Cool Herbs
3. Reinforcing The Defensive Qi By Consolidating Superficial Resistance
4. Lowering Adverse Flow Of Qi By Warming The Lung
5. Lowering Adverse Flow Of Qi By Clearing Away Heat From The Lung
6. Removing Phlegm By Eliminating Dampness
7. Resolving Phlegm By Clearing Away Heat
8. Relieving Cough By Tonifying The Lung
9. Stopping Cough By Astringing The Lung
10. Relieving Cough By Dispersing The Lung
11. Moistening The Lung By Removing Dryness
12. Inducing Diuresis By Removing Heat From The Lung
13. Strengthening The Spleen By Warming The Middle-jiao
14. Clearing Away Heat With Pungent And Cold Herbs
15. Removing Stagnated Heat With Bitter Herbs
16. Removing Stagnancy By Promoting Digestion And Eliminating Undigested Food
17. Reinforcing The Spleen By Invigorating Qi
18. Rescuing The Collapse By Invigorating Qi
19. Lowering Flow Of Qi By Regulating Middle-jiao
20. Dispersing And Descending Method With Bitter And Pungent Herbs
21. Clearing Away Heat And Dispelling Dampness
22. Inducing Diuresis By Strengthening The Spleen
23. Nourishing Stomach-yin
24. Purgative Method With Bitter And Cold Herbs
25. Removing Stagnancy By Warming Yang
26. Relieving Constipation By Loosening The Bowels
27. Stopping Dysentery By Clearing Away Heat
28. Inducing Astringency By Warming The Middle-jiao
29. Arresting Bleeding By Warming The Spleen
30. Harmonizing The Liver And Spleen
31. Both Invigorating Qi And Tonifying Blood
32. Expelling Cold By Warming The Channels
33. Regulating The Liver By Enriching The Blood
34. Removing Stasis By Activating Blood Flow
35. Arresting Bleeding By Clearing Away Heat
36. Soothing The Liver By Regulating Qi
37. Stopping Endogenous Wind By Calming The Liver
38. Relieving Convulsion By Stopping Endogenous Wind
39. Treating Shaoyang Disease By Mediation
40. Clearing Away Heat By Nourishing Yin
41. Subduing Pain By Eliminating Obstruction
42. Cooling Blood By Clearing Up Yingfen
43. Clearing Away Heat From Both Qifen And Xuefen
44. Inducing Resuscitation By Clearing Away Heat
45. Inducing Resuscitation By Eliminating Phlegm
46. Nourishing The Heart And Tranquilizing The Mind
47. Tranquilizing The Mind With Heavy Materials
48. Subduing Swelling And Dissolving Lumps By Clearing Away Heat And Removing Poison
49. Restoring Yang For Resuscitation
50. Restoring Physiological Coordination Between The Heart And The Kidney
51. Nourishing Yin By Tonifying The Kidney
52. Warming And Nourishing Kidney Yang
53. Astringing Emission By Reinforcing The Kidney
54. Inducing Diuresis By Warming Kidney-yang
55. Treating Stranguria By Inducing Diuresis And Clearing Away Heat
56. Simultaneous Treatment Of Both Lung And Kidney Diseases
57. Strengthening The Spleen By Warming The Kidney-yang
58. Clearing Away Summer Heat
59. Resolving Dampness With Aromatic Herbs
60. Softening Hard Lumps By Resolving Phlegm
61. Relieving Colic By Expelling Intestinal Parasites
62. Removing Obstruction By Activating Yang
63. Expelling Pathogenic Factors From Both The Interior And Exterior
64. Clearing The Upper And Warming The Lower Part Of The Body

• Ref: Liu Gongwang, "Fundamentals of Formulas of Chinese Medicine (Clinical Essentials of Contemporary Series Chinese Medicine) (English and Chinese Edition)". Hua Xia Publishing House (October 4, 2002). ISBN: 7508019954