Chai hu (bupleurum): Chinese Medicine Cases
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📖 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) CaseSwollen 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) CaseCoughing 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 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 Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan't Speak, Voice Gone, Throat Tight and Ulcerated? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Loss of Voice from Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSuddenly Can't Breathe or Speak in the Middle of the Night? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Dang gui (angelica root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBreathing Difficulty, Can't Catch Your Breath, Worse When Lying Down? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Sunken Chest Qi (Da Qi Xia Xian) — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseShortness of Breath, Can't Catch Your Breath, Worse After Anger? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Anger-Induced Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CasePalpitations, Shortness of Breath, Can't Catch Your Breath After a Fright? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Fright-Induced Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseLower Abdominal Pain That Pulls Down and Reaches the Waist, With a Lump Below the Belly Button? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Sinking of the Great Qi With Liver Qi Stagnation — Liyu Shengxian Decoction (理郁升陷汤)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSuddenly Can't Catch Your Breath, Qi Sinking Down? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Sunken Chest Qi with Ren Shen (Ginseng) in Place of Huang Qi (Astragalus)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseComatose, Cold All Over, and Always Needing to Sigh After a Cold? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Sinking of the Great Qi with Wild Taizai Ginseng and Chaihu
Medicine: Ye tai shen (wild Taizai ginseng / wild Codonopsis), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCoughing Up Blood Every Year, Phlegm Choking the Throat, Breathless at the Slightest Movement? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Sinking of the Great Qi with Shengxian Tang Plus Longgu and Muli — and One Dose Opened Blocked Urination in the Second Case
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (Anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseNo Bowel Movement for Half a Month With a Bloated Belly? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Yang-Deficiency Constipation (Yin Jie) — Nourish Kidney Essence First, Then Warm the Yang
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseDizzy the Moment You Close Your Eyes, Spirit Floating, Too Tired to Talk? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Deficiency with Zhusha Anshen Wan and Buzhong Yiqi Tang
Medicine: Zhu sha (cinnabar), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 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) CaseSudden 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever That Comes and Goes, a Cold That Just Won't Leave? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage with Gui Zhi Ma Huang Ge Ban Tang (Half Cinnamon Twig and Ephedra Decoction) — Resolve the Exterior Before Purging
Medicine: Gui Zhi (cinnamon twig), Ma Huang (ephedra)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseA Lump Growing in Her Belly, and Periods Only Every Three Months? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Year of Morning-and-Afternoon Medicine
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Zhi zi (gardenia)
📖 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) CaseA Boil on the Back, Swollen Like a Plate and Hard as Stone? Doctor Xu Shuwei Warns: Never Leave the Pathogen Behind — Cold Damage, Constipation, and the Boil That Followed
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / sodium sulfate)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseEyes Won't Open After a Fever, and the Breath Feels Hot as Fire? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats a Mishandled Cold Damage Case (Huai Zheng) With Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction)
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseWhole-Body Joint Pain That Won't Bend? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures His 75-Year-Old Mother's Bone and Joint Pain with Liuwei Dihuang Wan plus Zhizi and Chaihu
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseSuddenly Drowsy and About to Faint? Doctor Xue Lizhai First Uses Tongbian (Boy's Urine) for Emergency, Then Shiquan Dabu Tang to Rebuild Primordial Qi
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseChest 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) 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) CaseChills 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) CaseInjured 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) 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) 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) CaseFever 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) CaseChest 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) 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) CaseBloody 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) 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) 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) CaseFeeling 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) CaseDizzy 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) CaseMouth 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) CaseRed, 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) CaseEars 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) CaseConstipated 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) CaseUrinating 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) CaseSwollen 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) CaseHair 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) CaseA 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) CaseVomiting 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) CaseThree Months Without a Period and a Four-Cun Lump in the Belly? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Liver-Spleen Stagnation Case (Awei Plaster Plus Buzhong Yiqi by Day, Guipi by Night — Fully Recovered After a Year)
Medicine: A wei (asafoetida resin), Qiang huo (notopterygium)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseDelayed 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) CaseAlways 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) CaseHeavy 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) CaseTinnitus, 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) CaseBloating, 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) CaseBreast 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) CaseVomiting 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) 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseDiarrhea for Months, a Dozen Times a Day, a Swollen Face? Yu Jiayan's 'Reversing the Boat Against the Current' Treatment for Recurrent Dysentery with Renshen Baidu San and Forced Sweating
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 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) CaseCan'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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseNumb 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) CaseAlways 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) 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseSudden 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) CaseShort of Breath After a Shock or Anger? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Shengxian Decoction (Lift the Sinking) for Sinking of Great Qi Caused by Emotions
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBreathing Stops While Asleep? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Shengxian Decoction (Lift the Sinking) for Sinking of Great Qi That Causes Sleep Apnea
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseShortness of Breath After Anger or Fright? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Shengxian Decoction (Lift the Sinking) for Sinking of Great Qi Caused by Emotion
Medicine: Long yan rou (longan flesh / dragon-eye fruit) — tonifies both qi and blood, nourishes the heart and settles the spirit, Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseAlways Feel Like You Have a Cold That Won't Go Away? Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Deficiency Fever Mistaken for Wind-Cold (Buzhong Yiqi Tang plus Yuanzhi, Suanzaoren, Zhuru and Maimendong — Cured in Two Doses)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCold During Your Period, Then Talking Nonsense and Seeing Ghosts at Night? Doctor Xu Shuwei Cures Heat Entering the Blood Chamber with One Needle at Qimen Point LR14 (Xiao Chai Hu Tang Prescribed but Never Taken, Mistreated into Blood Chest-Binding, Cured by Acupuncture)
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Gualou shi (trichosanthes fruit)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseFainting From Anger While Eating: Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian Cures Sudden Collapse With Xingqi Xiangsu San (One Dose, Qi Stagnation With Food Retention)
Medicine: Zi su (perilla leaf), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseShort of Breath, Limp Limbs, Panting After Any Exercise? Doctor Zhang Xichun's 'Lift the Sunken Qi' Formula (Sheng Xian Tang)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan't Control Urination, a Sinking Feeling in the Breath, and a Cold Lower Belly? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Two-Step Answer (Warm the Lower Burner First, Then Lift the Qi)
Medicine: Ye tai shen (wild Codonopsis), Wu fu zi (black aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHoarse for Half a Year, Voice Nearly Gone? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Three Cases of Sinking of the Great Qi: Hoarseness, a Trembling Voice and a Tight Throat (Shengxian Tang with Xuan Shen)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseMissed Periods, Chills and Fever, Pain Under the Ribs? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Liyu Shengxian Tang for Sinking Qi with Stagnation (Three Cases)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseAlways Hungry, Can't Stop Eating? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Cases of Ravenous Appetite Caused by Sinking of the Great Qi (Da Qi Xia Xian)
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseHeavy 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) CaseAn Epidemic That Swelled People's Faces Shut, and a Doctor Who Pounded His Own Positions? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Puji Xiaodu Yin for 'Big-Head Epidemic'
Medicine: Huang qin (scutellaria), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseChild 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)