Da huang (rhubarb): Chinese Medicine Cases
32 related cases
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case
Stool and Urine Both Blocked? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Heat-Stagnation Constipation (Yang Jie) — 60 Grams of Crude Rhubarb to Hack Through a Tangled Knot
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseConstipated But Peeing Too Much? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Pi Yue (Spleen-Binding) Constipation With Maziren Wan (Hemp Seed Pill) — Moistening the Intestines Releases Both the Stool and the Pathogen
Medicine: Huo ma ren (hemp seed), Bai shao (white peony root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHigh Fever, Talking Nonsense, Grasping at the Air? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Typhoid Delirium and Carphologia With Xiao Cheng Qi Tang (Minor Purgative Decoction) — One Bowel Movement and the Patient Wakes Up
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Hou po (magnolia bark)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseBlack Stool and Mania? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage Blood Stasis and Mania With Di Dang Tang (Leech and Gadfly Decoction) — Purging Out the Black Blood Cures the Madness
Medicine: Shui zhi (leech), Meng chong (gadfly / horsefly)
📖 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseDry 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseConstipated, Hard Belly, Fever and Delirium? Doctor Xu Shuwei Used Da Chengqi Tang (Major Purgative Decoction) for the Yangming Fu-Solid Pattern — One Dose Unblocked the Bowels and Broke the Fever
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 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) 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseBelly 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 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 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) CaseIs 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) CaseBloating 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseDiarrhea 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) CasePeriod 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) CaseSores Down Below, Itchy and Miserable? Doctor Zhu Danxi Drained Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat with Dang Gui Long Hui Wan
Medicine: Dang Gui (angelica root), Long Dan Cao (gentian root)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseMissed Periods for Three Months and a Pulse You Can't Even Feel? Doctor Zhu Danxi Shows It Was Phlegm-Heat Blocking the Channels — Not Deficiency — and Treats It with the Purgative Sanhua Shenyou Wan
Medicine: Gan sui (Gansui root), Da ji (Peking spurge root)
📖 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 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseBloody Stool and Pain That Lingers After Every Bowel Movement? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Dysentery Case — Nine-Steamed Rhubarb (30 g), Cured in One Dose
Medicine: Da Huang (Rhubarb), Nine-steamed rhubarb
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseNumb Hands, Twitching Muscles, and Feeling Weak in Your 50s: A Stroke Warning? Doctor Gong Tingxian's 'Paralysis Within Three Years' Prophecy for Two Old Friends (Shoufeng Shunqi Wan & Yanling Guben Dan for Prevention; Yangrong Tang & Jianbu Huqian Wan for Recovery)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Huo ma ren (hemp seed)
📖 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 Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseWearing a Cotton Coat in Summer and Still Freezing? Doctor Wang Mengying's Bitter-Cold Herbs (Rhubarb and Mirabilite) for True Heat with False Cold
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (Mirabilite / sodium sulfate)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseChild's Smallpox Trapped Under the Skin for Three Days — Doctor Wu Jutong Pulls a Six-Year-Old Boy Back from the Brink (Four Liang of Rhubarb to Drain Toxins, Renzhonghuang to Fight Pestilence)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Zi hua di ding (violet yam root)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseDrinking Water Feels Like a Knife Cut in Your Stomach and You Can't Eat? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of a Gastric Bezoar (Da Cheng Qi Tang)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCheeks Swollen Like a Toad, Jaw Locked, Throat Blocked? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Heavy-Dose Raw Gypsum Strategy for Mumps Fire Toxin
Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Jin Yin Hua (honeysuckle)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseToothache So Bad She Rode a Horse to Suck in Cold Air? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Wind-Heat Toothache Formula for Liu Jingli's Wife
Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Hu tong lei (poplar resin)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseBelly 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) CaseBelly Swollen, Wheezing So Loud It's Heard Outside the Room? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Pingqi San (Qi-Settling Powder)
Medicine: Bai qian niu (white pharbitis / morning glory seed), Qing pi (green tangerine peel)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFever for Nine Days, No Bowel Movement, Restless and Craving Ice Water? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Cold-Heat Differentiation of Exogenous Yangming Fu-Excess (Tiaowei Chengqi Tang / Stomach-Regulating Qi-Coordinating Decoction)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb, 大黄), Mang xiao (mirabilite / sodium sulfate, 芒硝)