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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

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 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 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Involuntary Emission at the Sound of a Woman's Voice, Severe Deficiency? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case Treated with San Jia Fu Mai Tang and Tian Gen Yue Ku Gao (A Powerful Paste of Blood-and-Flesh Substances)

Medicine: Sheng Mu Li (raw oyster shell), Bie Jia (freshwater turtle shell)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Can'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) Case

Heart Pain, Racing Heart, Sweating and Jolting at Every Sound? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Jiji Decoction with Cornus Fruit (Shan Yu Rou) for Heart Pain from Qi-Blood Deficiency — When Blood Stasis Is Not the Real Cause

Medicine: Shan yu rou (cornus officinalis fruit / dogwood fruit), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia root)
📖 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Cold Feet Always Mean a Cold Body? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Cures Cold Legs Below the Knees With Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) — True Heat Hiding Behind False Cold, Gone in Three Doses

Medicine: Shi gao (gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Unbearable 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) 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 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

Toe 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 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

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

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

Whole-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) 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

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

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

Abdominal 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) 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

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

How Severe Can Kidney Yang Damage Be? Yang Deficiency, Always Cold, Needing Ginger with Every Bowl of Congee? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Three Mistreated Yang Deficiency Cases (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

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 at Dawn, Right on Schedule Every Morning? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Cockcrow Diarrhea (Wuweizi San and Bawei Wan)

Medicine: Wu wei zi (schisandra fruit), Wu zhu yu (evodia fruit)
📖 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

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

Suddenly Blind at Age 20? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Sudden Vision Loss with Mai Wei Di Huang Wan (Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill Plus Ophiopogon and Schisandra)

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 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

Bloated Belly That Isn't Really 'Blocked': Ming Imperial Physician Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Yang-Deficiency Abdominal Distension with Jinkui Shenqi Wan — Well in Under a Month

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 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

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

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

Child Fell Into a Pond, Got a Fever, Then Fell Into a Coma After Taking Medicine? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Life-Saving Rescue with Lizhong Tang and Xuanming Powder

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (white atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Child Convulsed and Passed Out After Eating Too Much Cold Food? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Wu Xie Si Jun Zi Tang (Aconite-Scorpion Four Gentlemen Decoction) for Chronic Infantile Convulsion (Man Pi Feng / Slow Spleen Wind) — False Heat with True Cold

Medicine: Chuan wu (aconite root), Xie zi (scorpion)
📖 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

Diarrhea 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) 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

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

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

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

Face 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) Case

Vomiting 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) 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

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 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) 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

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

Feet Swollen and Urine Scant After Dysentery? Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's One-Dose Fix with Buzhong Yiqi Decoction plus Aconite

Medicine: Buzhong Yiqi Decoction, Fu zi (aconite)
📖 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

Dry Mouth That Won't Quench No Matter How Much You Drink? Doctor Zhang Xichun Used Heavy-Dose Bai Zhu (Atractylodes) to Treat Yang-Deficiency Dry Mouth

Medicine: Bai zhu (atractylodes), used heavily at over one liang (about 30 g), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Miscarriage at Two or Three Months of Pregnancy, Every Time — How Doctor Wu Jutong Secured the Fetus with His Great Nourishing Paste (Zhuan Xi Da Sheng Gao) of Blood-and-Flesh Tonics

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Xi yang shen (American ginseng)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Sore 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) Case

Can'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) Case

Hoarse 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) Case

Nocturnal Emission, Tinnitus, Dizziness and Chronic Fatigue? Doctor Wu Jutong's Kidney-Yin Deficiency Cases Cured with Zhuan Xi Da Sheng Gao (Great Birth Paste)

Medicine: Xi yang shen (American ginseng), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Leg Pain So Bad After Childbirth She Couldn't Stand? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Four-Dose Cure for Postpartum Spleen-Yin Deficiency

Medicine: Shi hu (dendrobium), Mu gua (papaya)
📖 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 Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Back Pain So Bad You Can't Stand Straight — and You Can't Urinate? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Da Fen Qing Yin (Major Clearing-Divide Drink) for Damp-Heat Low Back Pain: One Dose Unblocks the Urine and the Pain Vanishes

Medicine: Fu Ling (Poria), Ze Xie (Alisma)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Legs and Feet Swollen Like Boots, Belly Hard as a Drum — Doctor Zhang Jingyue's All-Out Tonifying Cure for Edema (Shenfu Liyin Jian): Fully Recovered in 20 Doses

Medicine: Shu Di Huang (prepared Rehmannia), Dang Gui (Chinese Angelica)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Child 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) Case

Vomiting 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 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 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 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

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)