Gancao (licorice): Chinese Medicine Cases
8 related cases
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case
Cold in Summer, Sweating Like Rain, Itching All Over? Doctor Zhu Danxi: It's Blood Deficiency, Not Yang Deficiency — a Siwu Decoction Case
Medicine: Shu Dihuang (prepared rehmannia), Danggui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseDiarrhea Every Time You Worry, and It Still Hurts Afterward? Doctor Zhu Danxi: Worry Harms the Spleen — Tonify the Spleen and Nourish the Blood (Cured in Two Days)
Medicine: Renshen (ginseng), Baizhu (white atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever, Belly Pain and Diarrhea Several Times a Day? Doctor Zhang Xichun Combined White Peony Root with Fresh Imperata Root to Clear a Warm-Heat Illness
Medicine: Sheng baishao (raw white peony root), Huai shanyao (Chinese yam slices)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseRunning to the Bathroom 20+ Times a Day with Barely a Drop? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Fuling Hupo Tang (Poria & Amber Decoction) for Frequent Urination
Medicine: Fuling (Poria), Hupo (Amber)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFace Swollen, Legs Swollen, Whole Body Puffy? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Pingwei San (Calm the Stomach Powder) & Daozhi Tongjing Tang (Guide Stagnation and Unblock the Channels Decoction) for Edema
Medicine: Cangzhu (black atractylodes), Houpo (magnolia bark)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFeet Too Swollen for Shoes, Pain Too Severe to Touch? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Danggui Niantong Tang (Angelica Pain-Plucking Decoction) for Damp-Heat Leg Swelling, Gout & Ancient Jiao Qi
Medicine: Qianghuo (notopterygium), Fangfeng (saposhnikovia root)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseThroat So Swollen He Couldn't Speak, Diarrhea Fifty-Plus Times a Day? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Three-Step Rescue for Acute Throat Swelling (Mengju Abscess): Bloodletting, Herbal Rinse & Shenying Wan
Medicine: Jiegeng (platycodon root), Gancao (licorice)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseHalf-Body Numbness, Then Afraid of Wind and Cold After Sweating — Can't Even Leave the House? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Mistaken Sweating (Huangqi Jianzhong Tang / Astragalus Middle-Fortifying Decoction)
Medicine: Huangqi (astragalus, 黄芪), Baizhu (atractylodes, 白术)