Gan jiang (dried ginger): Chinese Medicine Cases
46 related cases
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case
Always 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseAlways Drowsy and Want to Sleep All Day, Plus Vomiting, Diarrhea and Cold Hands and Feet? — Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Diagnoses Shaoyin Disease and Treats It With Wuzhuyu Tang (Evodia Decoction)
Medicine: Wu zhu yu (evodia), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseBaby Vomiting and Diarrhea from Cold: Zhang Jingyue Treats His Own Son with a Sweet-Tasting Decoction
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Hu jiao (black peppercorns)
📖 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) 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) 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 Jingyue (张景岳) CaseSores All Over the Throat That Hurt More With Every Cooling Treatment? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Throat Lichen (Hou Xuan) — Stopped Clearing Fire, Replenished Kidney Essence Instead, and the Patient Was Well Within Half a Year
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case5-Year-Old with High Fever, Labored Breathing and Staring Eyes? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Wind-Warm Disease with Dyspnea in Two Doses — Xiao Qing Long Decoction plus Gypsum
Medicine: Ma huang (ephedra), Gui zhi jian (cassia twig tips)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseHard Lump in the Belly That Hurts When Touched? Doctor Yu Jiayan: When Qi Clumps It Is Not a Blood Clot — Warm the Yang and Dissolve It in Three Doses
Medicine: Fu zi (aconite, prepared), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 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 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseChild Diarrhea Then Mouth Sores and Swollen Throat: Doctor Zhang Jingyue Treats Yin-Damaged Diarrhea with Deficiency Fire — Leading the Fire Back to Its Source
Medicine: Zhi fu zi (prepared aconite), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 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) 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) CaseBloody 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseChild 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) 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) CaseFever and Delirium, Talking Nonsense Like Bewitched? Doctor Zhu Danxi Warms Yang to Cure the Sick Young Man of the Zheng Clan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseCollapsed on the Toilet, Drenched in Sweat? Doctor Zhu Danxi Rescues a Stroke Collapse with Moxa at Qihai and Ginseng Paste
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 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) 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) 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) CaseCommon Cold with Chills and Shivering — What to Do? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Taiyang-Shaoyin Dual Cold Invasion with Mahuang Fuzi Xixin Tang (Ephedra, Aconite, and Asarum Decoction)
Medicine: Mahuang (ephedra), Zhi fuzi (prepared aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseEars 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) 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Convulsions, Vomiting and Diarrhea? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Heavy Shu Di with Fu Zi and Rou Gui for Chronic Infantile Convulsions (Leading Fire Back to Its Origin)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 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) CaseShortness of Breath and a Sinking Pain in the Lower Belly After Coal-Stove Poisoning? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Shengxian Tang (Lift the Sunken Chest Qi) Case
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus root), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseHiccups That Won't Stop and Come On Every Time You Get Cold — How Doctor Wang Mengying Cured Spleen-Yang Deficiency with Lizhong Tang and Xuanfu Daizhe Tang
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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) 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseCan'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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseLegs 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild with Nosebleeds Four Times a Day — and Cooling Medicine Made It Worse? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Cold-Pattern Epistaxis with Wen Jiang Tang (Warming and Descending Decoction)
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChest 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) CaseShort 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) 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) CaseStomach Pain So Bad He Couldn't Sit Up? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Fuyang Zhuwei Tang (Yang-Supporting Stomach-Helping Decoction)
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Hei fu zi (black aconite)
📖 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) 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)