High fever that won't come down: Chinese Medicine Cases
4 related cases
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case
High Fever That Won't Come Down Even After Cooling Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun's 'Failed' Case Shows Why White Tiger Decoction Needs Ginseng
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 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
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseElderly Fever, Confusion and a Shrinking Tongue? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Prepared Rehmannia for Kidney Essence Deficiency in Febrile Disease
Medicine: Prepared rehmannia (shu di huang), Raw Chinese yam (sheng shan yao)