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All Symptoms →Diarrhealoose stools · frequent bowel movements🔥 18,100/moStomach Painabdominal pain · stomach ache🔥 14,800/moInsomniacan't sleep · hard to fall asleep🔥 12,400/moCoughchronic cough · wheezing🔥 9,900/moBloody Stoolblood in the stool6,600/moDizzinessvertigo · lightheadedness5,200/moPalpitationsracing heart · heart pounding4,400/moPoor Appetiteloss of appetite3,800/moNight Sweatssweating · clammy2,900/moLow-Grade Feverafternoon fever2,100/mo
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Edema, Urinary Difficulty, and Cold Hands and Feet from Years of a Bad Temper: Doctor Xue Lizhai Warns Yang and Strengthens the Body After Previous Doctors Made It Worse — How to Correctly Treat Illnesses Caused by Long-Term Emotion
Symptoms: Abdominal distension Urinary difficulty Diarrhea
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseMedicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
Can't Get Pregnant and Your Period Won't Stop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures a Young Woman's Infertility with Just Four Doses of the Spleen-Restoring and Free-and-Easy Formulas — and the Family Decides Against a Concubine
Symptoms: Married for years without conceiving Menstrual bleeding that drags on endlessly (lin li bu jin) Liver qi stagnation from suppressed anger
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Zhi zi (gardenia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseMedicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Zhi zi (gardenia fruit)
Swollen Lips and Fever After Childbirth That Only Got Worse: Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures Postpartum Deficiency-Fire — Strengthen Qi First, with Three Formulas Rotated by Time of Day
Symptoms: Swollen lips (chun zhong) Internal heat Irregular menstruation
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseMedicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
Coughing Up Blood When Angry or Tired? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Hematemesis Cases — Soothe the Liver and Drain Fire in the Morning, Boost Qi and Nourish Yin at Night (Xiao Yao San by Day, Gui Pi Tang with Liu Wei Di Huang Wan at Night)
Symptoms: Spitting blood (tu xue) Fever Distension and pain in both flanks
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Dang gui (angelica root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseMedicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Dang gui (angelica root)
Heavy Bleeding and Waves of Body Heat That Won't Clear No Matter How Much You Cool? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Metrorrhagia Case — True Cold Hiding Behind False Heat (Gui Fu Di Huang Wan to Guide the Fire Home)
Symptoms: Sudden torrent of menstrual blood (jing xue bao xia) Body heat Pain in the limbs
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseMedicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
Hiccups That Won't Stop, Hiccuping on Every Breath? Yu Jiayan Treats a Critical Case of Stomach-Wind Hiccups (Xuanfu Daizhe Tang to Sink Rebellious Qi, Life Saved in Two Doses)
Symptoms: Hiccups Vomiting Excessive neck sweating
Medicine: Xuan fu hua (inula flower), Dai zhe shi (hematite)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseMedicine: Xuan fu hua (inula flower), Dai zhe shi (hematite)
Always Feeling Cold, Like a Cold That Isn't a Cold? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats a 70-Year-Old Almost Killed by Mistaken Cold Herbs (Fuzi Lizhong Tang to Reverse a Drug Error)
Symptoms: Always feeling cold Aversion to cold Stiff tongue
Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseMedicine: Fu zi (aconite), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
Can't Sleep at Night with a Restless Heart and a Heavy Head? Doctor Xu Shuwei's Two-Step Cure for Insomnia After Mistaken Sweating — First Zhuling Tang (Polyporus Decoction), Then a Decoction to Restore Fluids
Symptoms: Sleeplessness at night Fever Spontaneous sweating
Medicine: Zhu ling (polyporus), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseMedicine: Zhu ling (polyporus), Fu ling (poria)
Stiff Neck, Tight Shoulders, Constant Neck Cramps? Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Gui Zhi Jia Ge Gen Tang (Cinnamon Twig plus Kudzu Decoction) to Loosen the Stiff Neck and Back
Symptoms: Stiffness and tightness of the neck and back (xiang bei qiang ji ji) Sweating Aversion to wind
Medicine: Ge gen (kudzu root), Gui zhi (cinnamon twig)
Medicine: Ge gen (kudzu root), Gui zhi (cinnamon twig)
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