External-contraction fever: Chinese Medicine Cases
4 related cases
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case
Fever Got Worse After Taking Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Wind-Warmth with Latent Heat — a Bowl of Gypsum Rice-Gruel Decoction Cures a General
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Jing mi (northeastern rice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseNine-Year-Old Girl With Twenty Days of High Fever, Delirium and Sudden Loss of Voice: Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Baihu Jia Renshen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) for Warm Disease with Sinking of the Chest Qi
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ye tai shen (wild codonopsis / dangshen)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever So Severe She Fell into a Coma and Wouldn't Wake Up? Doctor Zhang Xichun Brought Her Back with Shigao Jingmi Tang (Gypsum-Rice Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed at 4 liang (about 120+ g), Jing mi (rice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild with High Fever Who Vomits Every Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cooled His Seven-Year-Old Son's Fever with Raw Gypsum Alone
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed — up to 6 liang (about 180 g) in a single day for a seven-year-old, Duan shi gao (calcined gypsum) — for external use only (astringing and promoting tissue regeneration); never to be taken internally