Cold damage (shang han): Chinese Medicine Cases
15 related cases
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case
Black Stool and Mania? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage Blood Stasis and Mania With Di Dang Tang (Leech and Gadfly Decoction) — Purging Out the Black Blood Cures the Madness
Medicine: Shui zhi (leech), Meng chong (gadfly / horsefly)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseAlways Catching Colds With a Thick White Tongue Coating? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage With a White Slippery Tongue Coating (Zhi Zi Tang to Induce Vomiting, Then Xiao Chai Hu Tang to Harmonize) — and the Thousand-Year History of Tongue Diagnosis
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseUnbearable Pain Under the Ribs Reaching to the Navel? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Diagnoses Shao Yang Pattern and Treats It With Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction) From the Treatise on Cold Damage — Pain Stopped After Three Doses
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHigh Fever With Thirst and Exhaustion? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) to Clear Heat and Nourish Qi — Both Patients Fully Recovered
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseSudden Yellow Skin and Eyes (Jaundice)? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Yin Chen Hao Tang (Capillaris Decoction) to Clear Damp-Heat — Yellowing Cleared Within Days
Medicine: Yin Chen (capillary artemisia), Zhi Zi (gardenia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever That Comes and Goes, a Cold That Just Won't Leave? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage with Gui Zhi Ma Huang Ge Ban Tang (Half Cinnamon Twig and Ephedra Decoction) — Resolve the Exterior Before Purging
Medicine: Gui Zhi (cinnamon twig), Ma Huang (ephedra)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCold and Fever During Your Period, Then Nighttime Raving and Unconsciousness? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Heat Entering the Blood Chamber — Clear the Phlegm First, Then Xiao Chaihu Tang Plus Sheng Dihuang
Medicine: Tian nan xing (arisaema), Bai jiang can (white stiff silkworm)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseA Boil on the Back, Swollen Like a Plate and Hard as Stone? Doctor Xu Shuwei Warns: Never Leave the Pathogen Behind — Cold Damage, Constipation, and the Boil That Followed
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / sodium sulfate)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseEyes Won't Open After a Fever, and the Breath Feels Hot as Fire? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats a Mishandled Cold Damage Case (Huai Zheng) With Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction)
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseComatose After a Cold, Barely Breathing? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian Rescues a Dying 70-Year-Old With a Single Bowl of Ginseng Decoction
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseEight Years of Chronic Diarrhea, Then Sudden High Fever with Delirium and Eyes That Wouldn't Close: Doctor Miao Xiyong Saves the Acute Crisis First, Then Cures the Eight-Year Diarrhea
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseCold Hands and Feet Like Ice, Shivering All Over — Is It Always Yang Deficiency? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang (Regulating the Stomach and Purging Qi Decoction) for Heat Reversal (Re Jue) from Yangming Fu Excess — True Heat Hidden Behind False Cold
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCommon Cold with Chills and Shivering — What to Do? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Taiyang-Shaoyin Dual Cold Invasion with Mahuang Fuzi Xixin Tang (Ephedra, Aconite, and Asarum Decoction)
Medicine: Mahuang (ephedra), Zhi fuzi (prepared aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseCan't Sweat Out a Cold, Then the Sweating Won't Stop? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Treatment of Crisis Sweating in Febrile Disease (Liuwei Huiyang Yin) — Cured in 10 Days
Medicine: Ren Shen (Ginseng), Shu Di Huang (prepared Rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFever for Nine Days, No Bowel Movement, Restless and Craving Ice Water? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Cold-Heat Differentiation of Exogenous Yangming Fu-Excess (Tiaowei Chengqi Tang / Stomach-Regulating Qi-Coordinating Decoction)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb, 大黄), Mang xiao (mirabilite / sodium sulfate, 芒硝)