Constipation: Chinese Medicine Cases
12 related cases
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case
Stool and Urine Both Blocked? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Heat-Stagnation Constipation (Yang Jie) — 60 Grams of Crude Rhubarb to Hack Through a Tangled Knot
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseNo Bowel Movement for Half a Month With a Bloated Belly? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Yang-Deficiency Constipation (Yin Jie) — Nourish Kidney Essence First, Then Warm the Yang
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseConstipated But Peeing Too Much? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Pi Yue (Spleen-Binding) Constipation With Maziren Wan (Hemp Seed Pill) — Moistening the Intestines Releases Both the Stool and the Pathogen
Medicine: Huo ma ren (hemp seed), Bai shao (white peony root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseConstipated, Hard Belly, Fever and Delirium? Doctor Xu Shuwei Used Da Chengqi Tang (Major Purgative Decoction) for the Yangming Fu-Solid Pattern — One Dose Unblocked the Bowels and Broke the Fever
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseConstipated, Hard Belly, Fever and Delirium? Doctor Xu Shuwei Used Da Chengqi Tang (Major Purgative Decoction) for the Yangming Fu-Solid Pattern — One Dose Unblocked the Bowels and Broke the Fever
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever, Sweating and Constipation for Days? Doctor Xu Shuwei's Da Chaihu Tang (Major Bupleurum Decoction) for an Urgent Yangming Purgation — a Wealthy Young Man Cured in Two Doses
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (scutellaria)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseConstipated and Can't Poop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Deficient Constipation by Rebuilding Qi and Blood (Modified Gui Pi Tang and Ba Zhen Tang)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseBloating So Bad You Can't Eat or Pass Stool or Urine? Yu Jiayan Treats Deficiency Bloating (Lizhong Tang + Wuling San): Stopping the Doctor Who Wanted to Purge with Two Liang of Rhubarb
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseVomiting After Meals, Food Stuck in the Stomach, Constipation for Ten Days? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Formula to Descend Stomach Qi and Settle the Chong Meridian
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite), Sheng hang shao (raw Hangzhou peony root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseVomiting After Meals, Food Stuck in the Stomach, Constipation for Ten Days? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Formula to Descend Stomach Qi and Settle the Chong Meridian
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite), Sheng hang shao (raw Hangzhou peony root)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseVomiting Everything, Eight Days Without Food, Death Bed Already Prepared? Doctor Gong Tingxian's Modified Erchen Tang for Qi-Stagnation Phlegm-Heat Vomiting — Calmed in Two Doses
Medicine: Ban Xia (Pinellia), Fu Ling (Poria)
📖 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)