Gan cao (licorice): 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 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseHeavy 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) CaseHiccups 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) CaseAlways 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) CaseChronic 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever, Vomiting, Diarrhea and Leg Cramps? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Two-Decotion Rescue for a Febrile Illness Gone Wild
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw huai Chinese yam), Hua shi (talc)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Teenager Always Cold, Bloated After Every Meal, and Short of Breath? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Heart-Lung Yang Deficiency with Sinking of the Great Qi — Huiyang Shengxian Decoction (回阳升陷汤)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseStomach Pain for Three Years That No Treatment Could Fix? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared Latent Heat with Raw Gypsum
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBloody Diarrhea and the Urge That Wouldn't Stop? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Heat Dysentery with Raw Gypsum and Ginseng
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Bai shao (white peony)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCoughing for Two Years and Getting Weaker? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Consumptive Cough with Li Quan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng shan yao (raw Chinese yam), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCough, Fever, Vomiting After Every Meal, Wasting Away Fast? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated a 22-Year-Old's Consumptive Cough with Li Quan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)
Medicine: Gan shan yao (dried Chinese yam), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Cold He Didn't Take Seriously Turned Into Consumptive Cough with Afternoon Fever a Year Later? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared the Latent Pathogenic Heat First, Then Nourished the Yin — Under Ten Doses Cured Him
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 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) CaseCold 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) 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) CaseHigh Fever With Thirst and Exhaustion? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) to Clear Heat and Nourish Qi — Both Patients Fully Recovered
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseWhole-Body Swelling, Scanty Urine and Bloating? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Bai Shao (White Peony Root) Formula for Yin-Deficiency Edema
Medicine: Bai shao (white peony root), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseA Fever That Won't Go Away for a Month, and a Cold Feeling in the Chest — Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Phlegm-Heat Disguised as Cold
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever Barely Above Normal, but Drowsy All Day with Cracked Lips? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats a Febrile Disease at the Shaoyin Stage
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Sheng huai di huang (raw rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever Got Worse After Taking Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Wind-Warmth with Latent Heat — a Bowl of Gypsum Rice-Gruel Decoction Cures a General
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Jing mi (northeastern rice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever With a Rash That Won't Go Away? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Warm Disease with Sha Zhen Rash — a Wild Grass Called Bai Mao Gen Finishes the Job
Medicine: Bai mao gen (cogongrass root, fresh), Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Fever That Gets Worse After Sweating? Doctor Zhang Xichun Saved a 7-Year-Old From Warm Disease With Just Two Prescriptions
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever That Won't Come Down Even After Cooling Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun's 'Failed' Case Shows Why White Tiger Decoction Needs Ginseng
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CasePeriod Suddenly Stopped and She Kept Losing Weight? Doctor Zhang Xichun Started from the Spleen and Stomach, and Restored a Teenage Girl's Period with Zisheng Tongmai Tang
Medicine: Chao bai zhu (stir-fried atractylodes), Sheng huai shan yao (raw huai yam)
📖 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) 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) CaseMuscles 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) 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseDry Mouth at Night, Too Dry to Sleep? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Blood-Nourishing, Yin-Nourishing Treatment for Sjögren's Syndrome (Siwu Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseVomiting 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) CaseNo 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) CaseVomiting 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) 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) CaseFever, 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) 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) CaseStomach 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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 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) CaseRheumatic Leg Pain That Stabs Every Time You Move? Doctor Zhu Danxi Nourished the Blood with Si Wu Tang to Cure It
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (angelica sinensis)
📖 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) CaseMiscarriage 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) CaseBelly 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) CaseCommon 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) CaseDelirious 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) 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) 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) CaseSudden 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHereditary Cough and Wheezing? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Step-by-Step Treatment of Consumptive Lung Disease (Chen Linsheng, Age 18)
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huaìshan yam), Gou qi zi (goji / wolfberry)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseAlways Cold and Short of Breath, but Warming Herbs Don't Help? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Huiyang Shengxian Decoction (Return Yang, Lift the Sinking) for Heart-Lung Yang Deficiency with Sinking of Great Qi
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSomething Growing Over Your Eye and Blocking Your Vision? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Pterygium (Nu Rou Pan Jing) Treated with a Single Herb: Raw Gypsum Powder
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseVomiting Blood Whenever Heat Rises? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Liver Qi Rampaging Against the Stomach
Medicine: Chi shi zhi (red halloysite), Sheng huai shan yao (dried Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan't Sleep, Heart Racing the Moment You Lie Down, Constant Sense of Doom? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Insomnia with Palpitations by Nourishing Yin, Soothing the Liver and Sending Stomach Qi Downward
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite), Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huaishan yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Convulsions After Catching Cold, Afternoon Fever, Vomiting and Diarrhea? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Slow Spleen Wind with Zhuhan Dangjing Tang and Modified Lizhong Dihuang Tang
Medicine: Hu jiao (black pepper), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever That Kept Coming Back No Matter What — Until Eight Liang of Gypsum (and a Pear) Broke It: Doctor Zhang Xichun's Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) Plus Qing Lian Qiao for Typhoid Fever with Latent Heat
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever, Delirium, Unconsciousness, Staring Eyes — What to Do? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Baihu Jia Renshen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) for Typhoid with Meningitis
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Sheng di huang (raw Rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever That Would Not Break for Over 40 Days? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Febrile Disease with Yin Deficiency and Internal Heat Using Ziyin Qingzao Tang (Nourish Yin and Clear Dryness Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Chinese yam), Sheng huai di huang (raw Rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseDry 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Fever with Coughing and Wheezing? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated a Child's Cough-Wheezing with Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) — It's Not Asthma!
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed at 2.5 liang (about 75 g), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseVomiting After Meals, Food Stuck in the Stomach, Constipation for Ten Days? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Formula to Descend Stomach Qi and Settle the Chong Meridian
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite), Sheng hang shao (raw Hangzhou peony root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Sensation of Qi Rushing Upward, Chest Hot and Tight at 3 a.m.? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Formula for Ben Tun (Running Piglet Syndrome) After Over-Purging Dysentery
Medicine: Gui zhi jian (cinnamon twig tips), Sheng Huai shan yao (raw Huai Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBlood in the Stool After a Bowel Movement? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Baitouweng Tang (Pulsatilla Decoction) Variation for Liver Fire Stirring Blood with Heart-Spleen Deficiency
Medicine: Sheng huai di huang (raw rehmannia), Bai tou weng (pulsatilla)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHeadache So Bad You Can't Get Out of Bed or Sleep at Night? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Qinggan Zhenni Fang (Clear the Liver and Suppress the Reversal Formula) for Headache from Liver Fire Rising
Medicine: Sheng hang shao (raw white peony), Bai zi ren (arborvitae seed)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CasePain 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 Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseFeeling Low, Crying for No Reason, Chills in the Afternoon and Fever at Night? Doctor Wang Mengying's Gan Mai Da Zao Tang (Licorice, Wheat and Jujube Decoction) with Lotus Root
Medicine: Gan cao (licorice), Xiao mai (wheat)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CasePostpartum Sweating, No Sleep All Night and Dizzy Spells? Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Yin Deficiency After Childbirth, Cured by Nourishing Body Fluids
Medicine: Xi yang shen (American ginseng), Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseRed Tongue, Dry Mouth and No Saliva? Doctor Wang Mengying Saves a Man Whose Yin Deficiency Was Mistreated with Warming Herbs — One Dose Turned the Crisis Around
Medicine: Xuan shen (figwort root / Scrophularia), Zhi mu (Anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseMiscarriage 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseLeg 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) CaseNewlywed Boy Gets Smallpox, Rash Turns Blue, and He Talks Nonsense: Doctor Miao Xiyong Clears Residual Stomach Heat with Gypsum and Ginseng
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseColds That Come Back Again and Again and Never Fully Clear? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Repeated External Contractions in a Qi-Deficient Patient (Baihe Disease) — Ren Shen, Mai Men Dong and Chao Zhi Ke, One Dose Cured
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Mai men dong (ophiopogon)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseChild's High Fever for Three Days That Won't Break, Lips Dry as a Silkworm Cocoon? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Ming Dynasty Case of Summer-Heat Illness in a Toddler — the Right Formula at the Wrong Time Is Not Enough
Medicine: Hua shi (talc), Gan cao (licorice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseVomiting Everything, Even Fainting From It — Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Taiqing Yin (Supreme Clearing Drink) for Stomach-Fire Vomiting: One Bowl Calms It Down
Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Zhi Mu (Anemarrhena)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever, Diarrhea Until She Fainted? Doctor Zhang Xichun Saved a Dying Maidservant with Prepared Rehmannia (Shu Di Huang)
Medicine: Shu Di Huang (prepared rehmannia), Sheng Shan Yao (dried Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBelly Pain, Diarrhea and a Lingering Fever? Doctor Zhang Xichun Softened the Liver with White Peony Root to Stop the Wood Attacking the Earth
Medicine: Sheng hang shao (raw white peony root), Huai shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 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)
📖 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) CaseFace Turning Black Around the Mouth? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Sheng Yang Shun Qi Tang (Yang-Raising Qi-Smoothing Decoction) for Melasma and a Dull Complexion
Medicine: Sheng ma (bugbane rhizome), Ge gen (kudzu root)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseMorning 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) CaseSwollen 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) CaseDiarrhea 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)