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📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Edema, Urinary Difficulty, and Cold Hands and Feet from Years of a Bad Temper: Doctor Xue Lizhai Warns Yang and Strengthens the Body After Previous Doctors Made It Worse — How to Correctly Treat Illnesses Caused by Long-Term Emotion

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Can't Get Pregnant and Your Period Won't Stop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures a Young Woman's Infertility with Just Four Doses of the Spleen-Restoring and Free-and-Easy Formulas — and the Family Decides Against a Concubine

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Zhi zi (gardenia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Swollen Lips and Fever After Childbirth That Only Got Worse: Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures Postpartum Deficiency-Fire — Strengthen Qi First, with Three Formulas Rotated by Time of Day

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Coughing Up Blood When Angry or Tired? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Hematemesis Cases — Soothe the Liver and Drain Fire in the Morning, Boost Qi and Nourish Yin at Night (Xiao Yao San by Day, Gui Pi Tang with Liu Wei Di Huang Wan at Night)

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Dang gui (angelica root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Heavy Bleeding and Waves of Body Heat That Won't Clear No Matter How Much You Cool? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Metrorrhagia Case — True Cold Hiding Behind False Heat (Gui Fu Di Huang Wan to Guide the Fire Home)

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Hiccups That Won't Stop, Hiccuping on Every Breath? Yu Jiayan Treats a Critical Case of Stomach-Wind Hiccups (Xuanfu Daizhe Tang to Sink Rebellious Qi, Life Saved in Two Doses)

Medicine: Xuan fu hua (inula flower), Dai zhe shi (hematite)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Always Feeling Cold, Like a Cold That Isn't a Cold? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats a 70-Year-Old Almost Killed by Mistaken Cold Herbs (Fuzi Lizhong Tang to Reverse a Drug Error)

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Chronic Diarrhea for Years, Worse When You Are Stressed? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Long-Standing Jueyin Diarrhea With Wu Mei Wan (Mume Pill), Cured Within Days

Medicine: Wu mei (mume fruit, smoked dark plum), Xi xin (asarum)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Afraid of Wind and Cold, Sweating Profusely, and Joint Pain? — Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Loufeng (Wind-Leakage Sweating) With Baizhu Fuzi Tang (Atractylodes and Aconite Decoction)

Medicine: Bai zhu (atractylodes), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Period Bleeding Won't Stop? Doctor Zhang Xichun Used Bai Zhu (Atractylodes) to Strengthen the Spleen and Stop Uterine Bleeding

Medicine: Bai Zhu (atractylodes), Sheng ji nei jin (raw chicken gizzard lining)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

A Nine-Year-Old Boy Kept Coughing, Running Warm and Losing Weight After a Cold? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared the Residual Heat with a Modified Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang (White Tiger plus Ginseng Decoction) — Five Doses Cured Him

Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Lu dang shen (Shanxi codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Gasping for Air the Moment He Lay Down, Coughing, Flushed and Sweating? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Around-the-Clock Rescue of Severe Consumption (Human Milk with Heche Dihuang Wan)

Medicine: Zi he che (human placenta), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Night Emissions, a Clouded Head and No Energy? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Treatment with Chenshen Bujing Wan (Cinnabar-Coated Essence-Supplementing Pill) and His 'Longevity' Health Rhyme

Medicine: Zhu sha (cinnabar), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Sudden 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

A Lump in a Woman's Belly Kept Her in Bed? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Li Chong Tang (Regulating the Chong Vessel Decoction) for Abdominal Mass

Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Chills and Fever on a Strict Schedule, and Medicine Wouldn't Make Him Sweat? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Basin of Herbal Foot-Soak Opened the Blocked Channels

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Hard Lump in Lower Belly After Childbirth? Doctor Zhang Xichun Dissolved the Postpartum Mass by Tonifying Qi and Blood While Removing Stasis with Li Chong Tang

Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Tian hua fen (trichosanthes root)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Dry Cough in Autumn? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats Two Women Whose Autumn Dryness Was Made Worse by Wrong Treatment (One With Uncontrollable Diarrhea, One Unconscious for Days)

Medicine: Huang qin (Scutellaria root), Di gu pi (wolfberry root bark)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Hard Lump in the Belly That Hurts When Touched? Doctor Yu Jiayan: When Qi Clumps It Is Not a Blood Clot — Warm the Yang and Dissolve It in Three Doses

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite, prepared), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Diarrhea for Three Years and a Belly That Keeps Swelling? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats a Critical Case of Long-Term Diarrhea Draining Yin (Ejiao, Rehmannia and Ophiopogon Honey Paste, Cured in Half a Month)

Medicine: E jiao (donkey-hide gelatin), Sheng di huang (raw Rehmannia root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Muscles Twitching, Heart Racing and Dizziness After Sweating Too Much? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Yang Injury from Mistaken Sweating with Zhenwu Tang

Medicine: Fu ling (poria), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Belly Bloated with a Lump on the Left Side? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Slow-Building, Qi-Boosting Blood-Nourishing Treatment for Abdominal Distension (Xing Shi Bu Qi Yang Xue Tang, Built on Sijunzi Tang)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Frequent 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 Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Vomiting and Diarrhea After Eating Mushrooms? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Warming-Yang Treatment of Mushroom Poisoning (When Poison-Clearing Herbs Made It Worse)

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

No Appetite and a Stuffed Feeling in the Stomach? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Cases of Deficiency-Cold Fullness (Pi Man) Cured by Warming and Supplementing — Not Digestion Aids

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Diarrhea After Drinking That Lasted for Years? Doctor Zhang Jingyue Cured His Own Chronic Wine-Related Diarrhea by Warming the Spleen and Kidneys

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Vomiting Blood and Bloody Stool When You're Too Exhausted to Go On? Doctor Zhang Jingyue Saves a Dying Scholar by Warming Yang

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Shu di (prepared rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chest Tightness and Phlegm After Anger? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Triple Combo — Xiaoyao Wan, Buzhong Yiqi Wan, and Liuwei Dihuang Wan — Restores Health Within a Year

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Shortness of Breath, Head Shaking, and Flailing Limbs After Anger? Doctor Xue Lizhai Strengthens the Spleen to Calm a Distraught Woman

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Blood in Stool, Night Sweats, and Chills and Fever? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Morning Qi-Tonifying, Afternoon Blood-Nourishing Cure for a Scholar

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Fever, Thirst and Heavy Sweating After a Cold Remedy? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Shiquan Dabu Tang with Fuzi Turned It Around Overnight

Medicine: Fu zi (prepared aconite), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chills and Fever, a Numb Right Hand — Worse After Every Cooling Herb? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Buzhong Yiqi Tang Plus a Warm Herbal Hand Soak

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Injured Foot But No Bleeding, Wound That Won't Heal? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Shiquan Dabu Tang Rebuilds Qi and Blood

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chest and Stomach Pain That Flares Up When You Get Angry? Doctor Xue Lizhai Reads the Face to Diagnose Liver-Spleen Disharmony and Treats with Buzhong Yiqi Tang

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Stomach Pain So Bad You Want to Cry, with Ice-Cold Hands and Feet? Doctor Xue Lizhai's One-Dose Cure for Liver Yang Deficiency

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Headaches and Watery Regurgitation That Stop the Moment You Eat Ginger? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Three-Year Mystery Solved by Strengthening the Middle Jiao

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Itchy, Oozing Toe Webs Like Athlete's Foot That Keeps Coming Back? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Cases: Same Dampness, Two Directions (Liu Jun Zi Tang plus Ginger & Cinnamon; Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang plus Fu Ling, Ban Xia)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Fever with Cold Hands and Feet, No Appetite — Worse the More You Clear Heat? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Spleen-Stomach Yang Deficiency with False Heat (Ba Wei Wan & Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang)

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Vomiting Acid, Uncontrollable Drooling, Nausea at the Smell of Food — Worse the More You Clear Heat? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Rescue of a Dying Woman with Spleen Cold: Salt-Mugwort-Aconite Navel Pack and Sublingual Aconite Pills

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Fever, Restlessness and a Lychee-Shell Tongue After One Night of Indulgence in a 79-Year-Old Man? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Kidney-Essence Deficiency with Floating False Fire: Shiquan Dabu Tang Plus Bawei Wan to Guide Fire Back to Its Origin

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Seminal Emission Out of Control After Sex During Dysentery Recovery, Night Sweats Like Rain, Cold Limbs and Sleeplessness? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Kidney-Essence Deficiency Treated with Shiquan Dabu Tang Plus Bawei Wan (Guifu Dihuang Wan) — Cured in Two Doses

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Always Craving Cold Water, Soles Burning Like Irons, Thorns on the Tongue — Then Chills and Two Weeks of Constipation? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Kidney-Essence Deficiency Treated in Three Twists (Jiajian Bawei Wan, Bawei Wan, and Shiquan Dabu Tang)

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chest Feels Blocked, Food Sits Undigested, Growing Thin with Fever and Dry Mouth? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Mingmen Fire Deficiency That Cannot Generate Earth (Buzhong Yiqi Tang with Dried Ginger and Cinnamon, Then Bawei Wan)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Can't Eat More Than One Small Bowl, with Acid Reflux and Rotten-Smelling Belching? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen Deficiency Turning into Cold in the Middle (Liujunzi Tang plus Paojiang, Muxiang and Sharen)

Medicine: Pao jiang (blast-fried ginger), Mu xiang (costus root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Eating a Bit More Triggers Diarrhea, Stomach Gurgles, Feet Ice-Cold Even in Summer? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Mingmen Fire Deficiency Failing to Generate Earth (Bawei Wan / Guifu Dihuang Wan)

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Red Face, Fever, Chest and Stomach Pain That Gets Worse With Cooling Medicine? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Through 'True Cold, False Heat' — One Dose of Buzhong Yiqi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction) Cures It

Medicine: Ren Shen (ginseng), Bai Zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Bloody Stool, Chronic Diarrhea and Bloating That Got Worse With Every Cooling Herb? Doctor Xue Lizhai Saw Through 'False Heat, True Cold' — Ten Days of Warming the Spleen and Kidney Stopped the Bleeding

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Bloody Stool Getting Worse With Cooling Herbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Spleen Qi Sinking and Cures It With One Dose of Buzhong Yiqi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction) Plus Blast-Fried Ginger

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Diarrhea When Angry or Depressed? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Spleen Qi Sinking and Cures It With Liujunzi Tang (Six Gentlemen Decoction) Plus Sishen Wan (Four Spirits Pill) to Warm Yang and Tonify the Spleen

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Can't Eat, Just Drinking Tea and Eating Fruit All Day — Even Your Period Has Become Light and Late? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen Deficiency with Guipi Tang (Spleen-Returning Decoction) and Liujunzi Tang (Six Gentlemen Decoction) plus Wu Zhu Yu

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Diarrhea Every Time the Wind Blows? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Dampness Diarrhea with Shengyang Yiwei Tang (Yang-Raising and Stomach-Soothing Decoction)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus root), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Coughing with Phlegm? Before You Reach for a Phlegm-Resolving Formula, Ask This One Question — Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats a Spleen-Lung Deficiency Cough with Liujunzi Tang and Bawei Wan

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Feeling Fat, Cold, Dizzy and Phlegmy — Is It Real Obesity or Deficiency Obesity? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Kidney Deficiency with Buzhong Yiqi Tang and Jinkui Shenqi Wan

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Dizzy with Constant Phlegm — Must You Always Attack the Phlegm? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Warning: Both Symptoms Come from Kidney Deficiency, and the Same Pill That Saved One Man Killed Another (Suhexiang Wan)

Medicine: Suhexiang Wan's aromatic herbs: bing pian (borneol), ding xiang (clove), an xi xiang (benzoin), tan xiang (sandalwood), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Mouth Ulcers That Keep Coming Back and Flare Up After Ginger or Garlic — Doctor Xue Lizhai on Deficient-Fire Canker Sores: an Elder Brother with Phlegm and Dizziness, Cured by Gui Fu Di Huang Wan and Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang, Yet Relapsing Within a Month (Fire Not Returning to Its Source)

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan yu rou (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Red, Blurry Eyes Made Worse by Cooling Herbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Lifts the Qi and Nourishes the Blood to Heal Eyes and Ears (Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Ears Ringing Like Cicadas, Won't Stop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Tinnitus with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang and Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Spleen-Kidney Tonics)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Constipated 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Urinating Less with Dark Red Urine? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured It by Rebuilding the Spleen and Lungs to Generate Kidney Water (Buzhong Yiqi Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Swollen Feet That Pit When Pressed? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Post-Dysentery Edema with Buzhong Yiqi Tang Plus Fuzi — Better in Two Doses

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Body Feels Hot Like Fire but Cooling Herbs Only Make It Worse? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Kidney Yang Deficiency False Heat (Jinkui Shenqi Wan — Cured in About Twenty Doses)

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Hair Falling Out in Clumps, Even Eyebrows Gone? Ming Dynasty Imperial Physician Doctor Xue Lizhai's Hair Loss Cases (Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan — Hair Restored in No Time)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

A 14-Year-Old with Fever and Vomiting Blood, Worse After Cold Medicine? Doctor Xue Lizhai's 'Build the Spleen, Nourish the Kidneys' Approach

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Vomiting Blood the Moment He Got Tired, the Blood Scattered and Thin? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Buzhong Yiqi Tang for Spleen-Lung Qi Deficiency Bleeding

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Delayed Period with Fever and Fatigue? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Deficiency Case (Twice Mistreated, Nearly Blind — a Year of Nourishing the Spleen and Stomach Brought Full Recovery)

Medicine: Huang lian (coptis, goldthread), Shui zhi (leech)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Always Angry and Suppressing It, with an Abdominal Lump and Irregular Periods: Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Gynecological Mass Cases (Buzhong Yiqi Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan Nourishing Liver Yin — Same Disease, One Cured and One Lost, All Because of Emotion)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Heavy Bleeding with Low-Grade Fever That Gets Worse the More You Clear Fire: Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Deficiency Metrorrhagia Case (Qi Deficiency Fever — Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang with Charred Ginger)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Tinnitus, Headaches and Constant Exhaustion? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Qi Deficiency with Buzhong Yiqi Tang and Liuwei Dihuang Wan (Nourishing Both Qi and Yin)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng/codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Bloating, Rib Pain and Afternoon Fever That Kept Getting Worse? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Stagnation and Anger Injuring the Liver and Spleen (Guipi Tang in the Morning, Augmented Xiao Yao Wan at Night — Cured in Three Months)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Breast Lump Like a Goose Egg, Red and Painful? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Mastitis After Anger by Strengthening the Spleen and Calming the Liver (Eight-Ingredient Decoction, Cured in Fourteen Doses)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Vomiting and Bleeding After a Meal and a Fit of Anger During Pregnancy? Doctor Xue Lizhai Stops a Threatened Miscarriage by Clearing Liver Fire and Strengthening the Spleen (Six Gentlemen Decoction Then Augmented Free and Easy Powder, Cured in Four Doses)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Is Back Pain Always Kidney Deficiency? Doctor Yu Jiayan Cured a Mistreated Cold-Damage (Shanghan) Back Pain with Taoren Chengqi Tang (Peach Kernel Qi-Ordering Decoction) Plus Cinnamon and Aconite

Medicine: Tao Ren (peach kernel), Gui Zhi (cinnamon twig)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Bloating 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Bloody Stool for 30 Years and a Prolapsed Anus? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Four-Herb Pill Saved a Patient Everyone Gave Up On

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Diarrhea So Bad He Couldn't Leave His Bed? Doctor Zhu Danxi Built Him Up for Ten Days, Then Cleared the Gut in Two Doses

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Period Stopped for Three Months and a Lump in the Belly? Doctor Zhu Danxi Attacked, Supported, Then Stood Back — and Let Her Body Flush Out the Old Blood Itself

Medicine: Mang xiao (mirabilite), Da huang (rhubarb)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Chickenpox with a Fever So High He Couldn't See or Hear? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treated Only the Upright Qi — No Pox Medicine at All

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Malaria Every Other Day for a Whole Year? Doctor Zhu Danxi Cured It with One Herb: Atractylodes

Medicine: Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Fever and Delirium, Talking Nonsense Like Bewitched? Doctor Zhu Danxi Warms Yang to Cure the Sick Young Man of the Zheng Clan

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Headache So Bad He Started Saying Goodbye to His Family? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Four-Herb Formula — and the Brother Who Nearly Ruined It with Astragalus

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Talking Nonsense and Seeing Things That Aren't There? Doctor Zhu Danxi Fortified Upright Qi and Resolved Phlegm to Cure a Case That Looked Like 'Possession'

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Miscarriage at Two or Three Months, Every Time — How Doctor Zhu Danxi Secured the Fetus with Atractylodes Decoction and Scutellaria Powder

Medicine: Bai zhu (atractylodes), Huang qin (scutellaria / baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

A Boil on the Arm, Red and Swollen — and Nothing Would Heal It? Doctor Zhu Danxi's 'Strengthen the Qi First' Approach to Sores

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Dang gui (angelica sinensis)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Belly Swollen Like a Drum? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Treatment of Ascites: One Patient Died Clinging to a Fixed Formula, Another Recovered in Six Months

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Bloody Stool and a Black, Swollen Belly? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Blood-Nourishing Treatment of Ascites in a Woman

Medicine: Dang gui (angelica sinensis), Chuan xiong (ligusticum)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Burning Feet and Always Feeling Hot? Doctor Zhu Danxi Says It's Not 'Strong Fire' but Yin Deficiency — a Case That Ended in Paralysis

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Hiccups That Won't Stop After Diarrhea? Doctor Zhu Danxi Nourished the Spleen and Cleared Damp-Heat — and Refused Aconite and Ginger

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Urine as White as Milk? Doctor Zhu Danxi Clears Phlegm-Dampness with Erchen Decoction to Cure White Turbid Urine

Medicine: Fu ling (Poria), Chen pi (aged tangerine peel)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Stroke in an Obese Man: Twisted Mouth and Paralyzed Arms? Doctor Zhu Danxi Clears Phlegm-Heat to Unblock the Channels

Medicine: Bei mu (fritillaria), Gua lou (Trichosanthes fruit)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Can't See Clearly in the Morning? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treats Dampness Clouding the Clear Orifices

Medicine: Bai zhu (Atractylodes), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Fever, Sweating, Shivering and Thirst in Summer Heat? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treats Heatstroke with Ren Shen Si Ling San

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Common Cold with Fever and Body Aches? Doctor Zhu Danxi Sweated by Nourishing — Treating a Weak Man's Cold with Tonics Instead of Sweating Herbs

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Delirious and Utterly Weak After a Cold? Doctor Zhu Danxi Tonifies Qi First — Rescuing Two Patients Wrongly Sweated and Purged

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Chills and Fever That Won't Sweat? Doctor Zhu Danxi Cured Malaria with a Basin of Foot-Soaking Water

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Elderly Man with Nonstop Phlegm, Dizziness and Weakness? Doctor Zhu Danxi Diagnoses a Great Deficiency (Da Xu Zheng), Rebuilds Vital Qi with Large Tonics, and Clears Phlegm-Heat Gently with Lian Bai Wan

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Can't Urinate? Doctor Zhu Danxi Cured an 80-Year-Old Man's Blocked Urine with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Can't Urinate? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Five Approaches to Urinary Retention and Scanty Urine

Medicine: Chen pi (tangerine peel), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Vomiting Nonstop After Pregnancy, Spinning Head, Everything Comes Back Up? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Huanglian Pill for Morning Sickness

Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Nine Months Pregnant and Suddenly Can't Urinate? Doctor Zhu Danxi Lifted the Qi Instead of Draining the Bladder

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Dang gui (Chinese angelica, body and tail)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Sudden Stroke, Hemiplegia, or Needle-Like Pains? Four Stroke Cases from Doctor Zhu Danxi: Regulate Qi and Blood with the Four Gentlemen and Four Substances Decoctions

Medicine: Ren Shen (ginseng), Bai Zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Numb Arms, Constant Phlegm, Watery Eyes? Doctor Xue Lizhai on 'Numbness Is Qi Deficiency' — Why Wind-Dispelling Treatment Made It Worse, and Liu Wei Di Huang Wan with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang Cured It in Under Three Months

Medicine: Shu Di Huang (cooked rehmannia), Shan Zhu Yu (cornus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Always Feel Like Catching a Cold, Sneezing in the Wind With a Clear Runny Nose? Doctor Xue Lizhai on the 'Pseudo-Cold' of Spleen-Lung Qi Deficiency — Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang Plus Mai Men Dong and Wu Wei Zi

Medicine: Huang Qi (astragalus), Ren Shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Two Arms Aching and Skin Itching Like Bugs Crawling? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Qi Deficiency Treatment (Buzhong Yiqi Tang)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Sudden Dizziness and Collapse, Phlegm Surging, Numb Limbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures Kidney Deficiency Vertigo

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Child Twitching, Blinking Eyes or Sucking in the Belly? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Chronic Infantile Convulsion (Slow Convulsion) by Warming the Spleen

Medicine: Chi shi zhi (red halloysite), Sheng huai shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Belly Swollen Like a Spider and Gasping for Air? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian Saved the Princess of Lu with 'Treating Blockage by Filling' (Buzhong Yiqi Tang with Liuwei Dihuang Wan, Six to Seven Jin of Ginseng Before Full Recovery)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Ears Ringing Like You're Going Deaf, No Appetite, Stomach Bloated? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Li Yin Tang for Heart-Lung Yang Deficiency

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Vomiting Blood and Bloating After Every Meal? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Wen Jiang Tang (Warming and Descending Decoction) for Spleen-Stomach Deficiency Cold

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Bloated, No Appetite, Constipated After Getting Angry or Upset? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Shengjiang Tang (Rising and Falling Decoction) for Liver Depression with Spleen Weakness

Medicine: Raw ji nei jin (chicken gizzard lining), Ye tai shen (dang shen / codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Coughing, Wasting, and Stopped Periods? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Zisheng Tang (Nourishing Life Decoction) for Tuberculosis (Consumption) and Amenorrhea

Medicine: Sheng shan yao (dried Chinese yam, huai yam), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Pain Under Both Ribs, and Dizzy When It Hurts Badly? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Raw Astragalus Formula for Rib Pain from Deficient Liver Qi

Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Sheng hang shao (raw white peony)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Child Food Stagnation: Hot Palms, Thick Tongue Coating, Vomiting and Bad Breath — How Doctor Wu Jutong Cleared the Blocked Spleen-Stomach

Medicine: Huo xiang geng (patchouli stem / Agastache), Bai kou ren (white cardamom kernel / Amomum cardamomum)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) Case

Hiccups That Won't Stop and Come On Every Time You Get Cold — How Doctor Wang Mengying Cured Spleen-Yang Deficiency with Lizhong Tang and Xuanfu Daizhe Tang

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Shivering, Chills Then Fever at Regular Times (Malaria)? Doctor Miao Xiyong Stops It Overnight — Three Formulas, Five Doses in One Day and Night: Large-Dose Zhuye Shigao Tang (Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction) with Guizhi to Clear Heat, Spleen-Strengthening Digestives, Then Ren Shen and Sheng Jiang Pi (Ginger Peel) at the Fifth Watch

Medicine: Sheng shi gao (gypsum), Zhu ye (bamboo leaf)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Can't Eat, Bloated Belly, Constant Diarrhea? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Qin Gong'an — Ginseng Cured Him the First Time, the Same Ginseng Nearly Killed Him Three Years Later (Spleen Qi Deficiency vs Spleen Yin Deficiency)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Vomiting Clear Water All Day? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Fluid Retention (Yin Syndrome) — One Dose Stopped the Vomiting, Two Doses Cured

Medicine: Jiang ban xia (ginger-processed pinellia), Guang chen pi (aged tangerine peel)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Child with Nosebleeds Four Times a Day — and Cooling Medicine Made It Worse? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Cold-Pattern Epistaxis with Wen Jiang Tang (Warming and Descending Decoction)

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Chest Tightness, Constant Heat, and Terrible Wheezing Every Few Weeks? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured It by Warming Yang — Because the 'Heat' Was a Lie

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Short of Breath, Losing Your Appetite, Coughing up Watery White Phlegm? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Liyin Decoction Dissolved the Cold Fluid Congealed in the Chest

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Leg Pain So Bad She Couldn't Walk — Then Her Back and Shoulders Ached Too? Doctor Zhang Xichun Tonified the Spleen with Bai Zhu (Atractylodes) and Cured It in About Ten Days

Medicine: Bai Zhu (atractylodes), Dang Gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) Case

A Headache That Felt Like the Skull Was Splitting, and the Room Was Spinning? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Classic Phlegm Formula Fixed It in Two Doses

Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Tian ma (gastrodia)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) Case

Heavy Uterine Bleeding, Bloody Diarrhea, and a Body That Wouldn't Stop Leaking? Doctor Li Dongyuan's 'Benefit the Stomach, Lift the Yang' Formula

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) Case

Legs Too Weak to Stand, Cold All Over — Yet the Real Problem Was Heat? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Zi Shen Wan for 'True Heat, False Cold'

Medicine: Zhi mu (anemarrhena), Huang bai (phellodendron)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Belly Bloated Like a Drum After Overeating? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Emergency Purge for Food Stagnation (Beiji Wan)

Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Ba dou (croton seed)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Too Exhausted to Get Out of Bed, Diarrhea That Won't Stop, No Appetite? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Shengyang Tiaozhong Tang (Yang-Raising Middle-Regulating Decoction)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Morning Diarrhea with Gurgling and Belly Pain? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Cold Attack Treated with Fuzi Wenzhong Tang — Using Hot Herbs in Summer

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Swollen Finger Joints, Sore Knees, and a Heavy Body? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Dampness Flowing into the Limbs — Da Qianghuo Tang (Major Notopterygium Decoction)

Medicine: Qiang huo (notopterygium), Du huo (angelica pubescens)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Child Suddenly Twitching, Talking Nonsense, and Unable to Speak? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Convulsions After Forced Sweating — Renshen Yiqi Tang (Ginseng Qi-Boosting Decoction)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Diarrhea With Undigested Food and Cold Hands and Feet? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Cold Diarrhea After Summer Cold Drinks — Qianshi Baizhu San (Qian Yi's Atractylodes Powder)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)