Hou po (magnolia bark): Chinese Medicine Cases
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📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case
Legs and Feet Swelling, Urine Drying Up? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Edema: From Wuling San to a Half-Kilo of Herbs a Day, the Swelling Melted Away in Half a Month
Medicine: Gui zhi (cassia twig), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseStool and Urine Both Blocked? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Heat-Stagnation Constipation (Yang Jie) — 60 Grams of Crude Rhubarb to Hack Through a Tangled Knot
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseConstipated But Peeing Too Much? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Pi Yue (Spleen-Binding) Constipation With Maziren Wan (Hemp Seed Pill) — Moistening the Intestines Releases Both the Stool and the Pathogen
Medicine: Huo ma ren (hemp seed), Bai shao (white peony root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHigh Fever, Talking Nonsense, Grasping at the Air? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Typhoid Delirium and Carphologia With Xiao Cheng Qi Tang (Minor Purgative Decoction) — One Bowel Movement and the Patient Wakes Up
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Hou po (magnolia bark)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseLeg Pain So Bad You Can't Get Out of Bed After Anger? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Heavy Use of Shan Yu Rou (Dogwood Fruit) to Tonify the Liver and Unblock the Collaterals
Medicine: Shan yu rou (dogwood fruit / Cornus officinalis), Zhi mu (anemarrhena root)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseDiarrhea 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 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseDiarrhea So Bad He Couldn't Leave His Bed? Doctor Zhu Danxi Built Him Up for Ten Days, Then Cleared the Gut in Two Doses
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseHeadache 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) 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) CaseBloody Stool and a Black, Swollen Belly? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Blood-Nourishing Treatment of Ascites in a Woman
Medicine: Dang gui (angelica sinensis), Chuan xiong (ligusticum)
📖 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseBelly Swollen Like a Spider and Gasping for Air? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian Saved the Princess of Lu with 'Treating Blockage by Filling' (Buzhong Yiqi Tang with Liuwei Dihuang Wan, Six to Seven Jin of Ginseng Before Full Recovery)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseChild Food Stagnation: Hot Palms, Thick Tongue Coating, Vomiting and Bad Breath — How Doctor Wu Jutong Cleared the Blocked Spleen-Stomach
Medicine: Huo xiang geng (patchouli stem / Agastache), Bai kou ren (white cardamom kernel / Amomum cardamomum)
📖 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) CaseDrinking Water Feels Like a Knife Cut in Your Stomach and You Can't Eat? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of a Gastric Bezoar (Da Cheng Qi Tang)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseVomiting 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 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) CaseLeg Pain So Bad She Couldn't Walk — Then Her Back and Shoulders Ached Too? Doctor Zhang Xichun Tonified the Spleen with Bai Zhu (Atractylodes) and Cured It in About Ten Days
Medicine: Bai Zhu (atractylodes), Dang Gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 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)