Ban xia (pinellia): Chinese Medicine Cases
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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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseCan't Swallow Food, Food Getting Stuck in Your Chest? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Dysphagia (Ye Ge): Jintui Huanglian Tang and a Prescription to Travel the Mountains and Waters
Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCoughing and Wheezing Worse the Moment You Lie Down? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated a Merchant's Phlegm-Wheezing from External Cold with Internal Fluid, Using Xiao Qing Long Tang (Minor Green Dragon Decoction) without Ephedra, plus Almond
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai Chinese yam), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseAlways Catching Colds With a Thick White Tongue Coating? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage With a White Slippery Tongue Coating (Zhi Zi Tang to Induce Vomiting, Then Xiao Chai Hu Tang to Harmonize) — and the Thousand-Year History of Tongue Diagnosis
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseUnbearable Pain Under the Ribs Reaching to the Navel? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Diagnoses Shao Yang Pattern and Treats It With Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction) From the Treatise on Cold Damage — Pain Stopped After Three Doses
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever and Chills With a Restless, Nauseated Stomach? Why Xiao Chaihu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction) Failed and Da Chaihu Tang (Major Bupleurum Decoction) Cured It — Doctor Xu Shuwei's Combined Shaoyang-Yangming Case
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (scutellaria)
📖 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCold and Fever During Your Period, Then Nighttime Raving and Unconsciousness? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Heat Entering the Blood Chamber — Clear the Phlegm First, Then Xiao Chaihu Tang Plus Sheng Dihuang
Medicine: Tian nan xing (arisaema), Bai jiang can (white stiff silkworm)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseMouth Ulcers, Hoarse Voice and Red Eyes? — Doctor Xu Shuwei, the Song Dynasty Formula Master, Treats Huhuo Disease (Behcet's Syndrome) with Gancao Xiexin Tang (Licorice Heart-Draining Decoction), Resolved in Days
Medicine: Raw gan cao (licorice), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseToe Pain for Thirty Years, Flaring Up So Bad He Couldn't Walk? Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Phlegm-Fire and Damp-Heat — Cured in Three Ten-Day Rounds
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseShortness 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) CaseChest 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) CaseAbdominal Pain and Diarrhea After Anger? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Modified Xiao Chai Hu Tang Cured It in One Dose
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseHeadaches 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) CaseItchy, 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) CaseCan'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) CaseRed 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) CaseDiarrhea 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) CaseCan'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) CaseDiarrhea 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) CaseCoughing 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseCold Hands and Feet Like Ice, Shivering All Over — Is It Always Yang Deficiency? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang (Regulating the Stomach and Purging Qi Decoction) for Heat Reversal (Re Jue) from Yangming Fu Excess — True Heat Hidden Behind False Cold
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseHeadache 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) CaseTalking 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) CaseAlways Cold No Matter How Warm You Dress? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Ginger-Juice Cure for 'False Cold'
Medicine: Sheng jiang zhi (ginger juice), Xiang you (sesame oil)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseUrine 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) CaseStroke 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) CaseKnee Swollen as Big as a Bowl? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Er Miao Wan (Two Marvel Pill) Treats Damp-Heat Pouring Downward (Shi Re Xia Zhu) with Gentle, Stage-by-Stage Tuning
Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Huang bai (phellodendron)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseFace Swollen and Appetite Gone After an Angry Late-Night Feast? Doctor Zhu Danxi on Facial Swelling from Rage and Overeating
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes macrocephala)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseVomiting After Eating and Gurgling in the Chest? Doctor Zhu Danxi on 'Ye Ge' (Dysphagia) Triggered by Eating in Anger
Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Chen pi (tangerine peel)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseCan'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) CaseHard Lump in the Stomach, Pain Pulling at the Flanks? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treats Accumulations (Ji Ju) with Da Cheng Qi Tang and a Halved Dose of Rhubarb
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseNine 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseNumb Fingers, Bloating, Phlegm, Dizziness After Any Effort? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang with Ba Wei Wan — and Why Wind-Dispelling Pills Killed the Cured Patient
Medicine: Huang Qi (astragalus), Ren Shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseTwo 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseVomiting 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 Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseVomiting, Diarrhea, Cramps and Near-Collapse — How Doctor Wang Mengying Saved His Friend Zhou Guangyuan Twice: Cholera with Cramps (Huo Luan Zhuan Jin) and a Yearly Malaria Ended by One Old Prescription
Medicine: Huo xiang (agastache), Cang zhu (atractylodes lancea)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseSore Throat That Isn't Heat: Doctor Wu Jutong Warms Yang to Cure a 35-Year-Old Woman's Throat Pain of Over Ten Years
Medicine: Rou gui (cinnamon bark), Gao liang jiang (galangal)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseCan't Lie Down to Sleep: Wheezing and Coughing When You Lie Flat — Doctor Wu Jutong Treats Wind-Cold with Phlegm-Fluid Retention, Changing the Formula Every Day for Six Days
Medicine: Gui zhi (cinnamon twig), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseHoarse After a Cold or Suddenly Can't Speak? Doctor Wu Jutong's Cases of Sudden Loss of Voice (Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang)
Medicine: Ma huang (ephedra), Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseCoughing Up Blood, Chest Fullness and Constipation? Doctor Wu Jutong's Phlegm-Fluid Retention Case Treated with Modified Xiao Qing Long Tang (Minor Green Dragon Decoction)
Medicine: Yun fu ling (Yunnan poria), Gui zhi (cinnamon twig)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseMissed Periods at 19, Rib Pain So Bad She Couldn't Eat? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Amenorrhea from Liver Constraint and Blood Stasis, Treated with Xuanfu Flower Decoction and Huazheng Huisheng Pills
Medicine: Xin jiang (newly dyed silk), Xuan fu hua (inula flower)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseShivering, 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseChild Suddenly Collapses with Convulsions and Foaming at the Mouth: Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Epilepsy (Zhuifeng Qutan Wan, Cured Within Half a Year)
Medicine: Fang Feng (Saposhnikovia root), Tian Ma (Gastrodia)
📖 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 Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseA 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 Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseA Frightened 4-Year-Old With Seizures Who Went 'Dull as a Fool' After Cold Medicines? Luo Tianyi's Chenxiang Tianma Tang and the Qiao Mai Moxibustion Points
Medicine: Chen xiang (agarwood), Tian ma (gastrodia)