Sun Simiao is one of the most, if not the most, interesting figures in the history of Chinese medicine. It is not too difficult to support this judgment, even though biographical details of this Tang physician are only fragmentary. In his lifetime, Sun Simiao was a famous clinician and alchemist; to posterity, he left voluminous formularies that have been influential until the present.
Some Formulas of Sun Simiao Referenced in Modern Texts
Following are formulas from Sun Simiao's Qianjin Yaofang (from texts on traditional Chinese medicine published in recent times. Formulas that have an English common name in parentheses are from Commonly Used Chinese Herb Formulas will Illustrations Companion Guide and the others are from Thousand Formulas and Thousand Herbs of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 

Chill-dispelling Formulas
●Qianjin Danggui Tang (Tang-kuei Combination): with tang-kuei, cinnamon, zanthoxylum, dry ginger, licorice, pinellia, magnolia bark, ginseng, astragalus, and peony; used for cold spleen/stomach with pain in the chest and/or abdomen.
●Jianzhong Tang (Hoelen and Jujube Combination) with hoelen, dried ginger, cinnamon, licorice, peony, jujube, and pinellia; used for cold in the spleen and stomach causing belching, vomiting, and/or stomach pain.
●Duzhong Jiu, with eucommia, photinia, chiang-huo, and aconite, prepared as a wine; for rheumatic pain in lower back and/or knees in persons with cold of spleen and kidney.
Cough-relieving Formulas
●Weijing Tang with coix, persica, benincasa, and phragmites; used for cough with pulmonary abscess.
●Feishang Tang with ginseng, dry ginger, cinnamon bark, gelatin aster, maltose, rehmannia, and morus; used to treat lung insufficiency with shortness of breath and coughing.