Gui zhi (cinnamon twig): Chinese Medicine Cases
23 related cases
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case
Stiff Neck, Tight Shoulders, Constant Neck Cramps? Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Gui Zhi Jia Ge Gen Tang (Cinnamon Twig plus Kudzu Decoction) to Loosen the Stiff Neck and Back
Medicine: Ge gen (kudzu root), Gui zhi (cinnamon twig)
📖 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) 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) CaseWheezing Day and Night, Hard to Inhale and Hard to Exhale? Doctor Zhang Xichun Diagnosed Sinking of the Great Qi with Kidney Deficiency and Swapped Shengma for Guizhi — the Cinnamon Twig That Goes Up and Down
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared Rehmannia), Sheng shan yao (raw Chinese yam)
📖 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) 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever That Comes and Goes, a Cold That Just Won't Leave? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage with Gui Zhi Ma Huang Ge Ban Tang (Half Cinnamon Twig and Ephedra Decoction) — Resolve the Exterior Before Purging
Medicine: Gui Zhi (cinnamon twig), Ma Huang (ephedra)
📖 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHeart Palpitations and Hands Pressed to the Chest? — Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Heart-Yang Deficiency Caused by Excessive Sweating with Guizhi Gancao Tang (Cinnamon Twig and Licorice Decoction)
Medicine: Gui zhi (cinnamon twig), Zhi gan cao (honey-fried licorice)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseCoughing 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) CaseBody 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 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseStroke in an Obese Man: Twisted Mouth and Paralyzed Arms? Doctor Zhu Danxi Clears Phlegm-Heat to Unblock the Channels
Medicine: Bei mu (fritillaria), Gua lou (Trichosanthes fruit)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseFever, 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) CaseKnee Swollen as Big as a Bowl? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Er Miao Wan (Two Marvel Pill) Treats Damp-Heat Pouring Downward (Shi Re Xia Zhu) with Gentle, Stage-by-Stage Tuning
Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Huang bai (phellodendron)
📖 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) CaseCan't Control Urination, a Sinking Feeling in the Breath, and a Cold Lower Belly? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Two-Step Answer (Warm the Lower Burner First, Then Lift the Qi)
Medicine: Ye tai shen (wild Codonopsis), Wu fu zi (black aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseStomach Pain, Feeling Blocked, Burping and Acid Reflux? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Huangqi Jianzhong Tang (Astragalus Fortify the Middle Decoction) Variation for Stomach Pain from Liver Qi Stagnation
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai mountain yam), Da gan gou qi (large sweet Gansu wolfberry)
📖 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseCoughing Up Blood, Chest Fullness and Constipation? Doctor Wu Jutong's Phlegm-Fluid Retention Case Treated with Modified Xiao Qing Long Tang (Minor Green Dragon Decoction)
Medicine: Yun fu ling (Yunnan poria), Gui zhi (cinnamon twig)
📖 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 Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseFace Blown Crooked by the Wind? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Qinjiao Shengma Tang (Gentian Macrophylla and Bugbane Decoction) for Facial Paralysis
Medicine: Sheng ma (bugbane rhizome), Ge gen (kudzu root)