Hua shi (talc): Chinese Medicine Cases
14 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) CaseCan't Sleep at Night with a Restless Heart and a Heavy Head? Doctor Xu Shuwei's Two-Step Cure for Insomnia After Mistaken Sweating — First Zhuling Tang (Polyporus Decoction), Then a Decoction to Restore Fluids
Medicine: Zhu ling (polyporus), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseStroke with a Contracted Arm, Choking on Water, Unable to Speak? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case: The Pungent-Cool Method of Opening the Water Passages
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Xing ren (apricot kernel)
📖 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 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCoughing Up Blood Every Year, Phlegm Choking the Throat, Breathless at the Slightest Movement? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Sinking of the Great Qi with Shengxian Tang Plus Longgu and Muli — and One Dose Opened Blocked Urination in the Second Case
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (Anemarrhena)
📖 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) CaseFever Getting Worse After Taking Medicine? Sometimes That's a Good Sign — Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Latent Heat Breaking Out Layer by Layer
Medicine: Xi jiao (rhinoceros horn, now replaced by water buffalo horn), Fresh sheng di (rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSudden High Fever, Drowsiness and Groaning? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Autumn Warm Disease with Latent Heat — Baihu Decoction plus Radish Seed and Forsythia
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever, Sweating and Constipation for Days? Doctor Xu Shuwei's Da Chaihu Tang (Major Bupleurum Decoction) for an Urgent Yangming Purgation — a Wealthy Young Man Cured in Two Doses
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (scutellaria)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseHiccups That Won't Stop After Diarrhea? Doctor Zhu Danxi Nourished the Spleen and Cleared Damp-Heat — and Refused Aconite and Ginger
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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 Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseBloody Diarrhea Dozens of Times a Day, and No Appetite? Doctor Wang Mengying's Light, Clear Herbs for Five-Colored Dysentery from Summer-Heat, Dampness and Food Stagnation
Medicine: Bei sha shen (coastal glehnia root), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 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)