Insomnia: Chinese Medicine Cases
5 related cases
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case
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
Medicine: Zhu ling (polyporus), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseTwo Months Without Sleep, Unable to Eat, Wasting Away? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Yin-Deficiency Insomnia: Large-Dose Ginseng to Tonify Qi and Settle the Spirit
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Suan zao ren (sour jujube seed)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseFrequent Night Urination and Cloudy, Milky Urine? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Treatment of Lower Xiaoke (Kidney Diabetes) with Guipi Tang and Dabuyuan Jian — 300-Plus Doses That Pulled a Dying Official Back from the Brink
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan't Sleep All Night and Sleeping Pills Don't Work? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cures Insomnia by Strengthening the Spleen and Stomach
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai Chinese yam — strengthens the spleen and stomach, the lead herb), Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite — heavy, sends the qi downward)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan't Sleep, Heart Racing the Moment You Lie Down, Constant Sense of Doom? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Insomnia with Palpitations by Nourishing Yin, Soothing the Liver and Sending Stomach Qi Downward
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite), Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huaishan yam)