Huang lian (coptis): Chinese Medicine Cases
39 related cases
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case
Always 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseBloody Diarrhea in Summer Heat? Doctor Miao Xiyong Cured Dysentery with Blood in Two Doses — After a Day-and-Night Gallop from Suzhou to Hangzhou
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Sheng ma (cimicifuga rhizome)
📖 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseDizzy the Moment You Close Your Eyes, Spirit Floating, Too Tired to Talk? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Deficiency with Zhusha Anshen Wan and Buzhong Yiqi Tang
Medicine: Zhu sha (cinnabar), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseCold Hands and Chills but Actually Phlegm-Heat? Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Wind-Dampness Turned into Phlegm-Heat by a Mistaken Warming Treatment
Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Huang qin (baical skullcap 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 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseToe Pain for Thirty Years, Flaring Up So Bad He Couldn't Walk? Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Phlegm-Fire and Damp-Heat — Cured in Three Ten-Day Rounds
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseDry Mouth at Night, Too Dry to Sleep? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Blood-Nourishing, Yin-Nourishing Treatment for Sjögren's Syndrome (Siwu Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 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 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseEight Years of Chronic Diarrhea, Then Sudden High Fever with Delirium and Eyes That Wouldn't Close: Doctor Miao Xiyong Saves the Acute Crisis First, Then Cures the Eight-Year Diarrhea
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseChest and Stomach Pain That Flares Up When You Get Angry? Doctor Xue Lizhai Reads the Face to Diagnose Liver-Spleen Disharmony and Treats with Buzhong Yiqi Tang
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseAbdominal Pain and Diarrhea After Anger? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Modified Xiao Chai Hu Tang Cured It in One Dose
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseAlways Angry and Spitting Up Acid? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured a Ten-Year Illness in Under a Month
Medicine: Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill), Liu Jun Zi Tang (Six Gentlemen Decoction)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseCan't Eat More Than One Small Bowl, with Acid Reflux and Rotten-Smelling Belching? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen Deficiency Turning into Cold in the Middle (Liujunzi Tang plus Paojiang, Muxiang and Sharen)
Medicine: Pao jiang (blast-fried ginger), Mu xiang (costus root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseHow Severe Can Kidney Yang Damage Be? Yang Deficiency, Always Cold, Needing Ginger with Every Bowl of Congee? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Three Mistreated Yang Deficiency Cases (Bawei Wan / Guifu Dihuang Wan)
Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseEars Ringing Like Cicadas, Won't Stop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Tinnitus with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang and Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Spleen-Kidney Tonics)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseTinnitus, Headaches and Constant Exhaustion? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Qi Deficiency with Buzhong Yiqi Tang and Liuwei Dihuang Wan (Nourishing Both Qi and Yin)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng/codonopsis)
📖 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) CaseSores Down Below, Itchy and Miserable? Doctor Zhu Danxi Drained Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat with Dang Gui Long Hui Wan
Medicine: Dang Gui (angelica root), Long Dan Cao (gentian root)
📖 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) 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) CaseElderly Man with Nonstop Phlegm, Dizziness and Weakness? Doctor Zhu Danxi Diagnoses a Great Deficiency (Da Xu Zheng), Rebuilds Vital Qi with Large Tonics, and Clears Phlegm-Heat Gently with Lian Bai Wan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseVomiting Nonstop After Pregnancy, Spinning Head, Everything Comes Back Up? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Huanglian Pill for Morning Sickness
Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCold During Your Period, Then Talking Nonsense and Seeing Ghosts at Night? Doctor Xu Shuwei Cures Heat Entering the Blood Chamber with One Needle at Qimen Point LR14 (Xiao Chai Hu Tang Prescribed but Never Taken, Mistreated into Blood Chest-Binding, Cured by Acupuncture)
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Gualou shi (trichosanthes fruit)
📖 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 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseSore, Swollen Throat and Ear Pain After a Cold? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Damp-Heat Throat Block (Clear the Dampness First, and the Heat Lets Go)
Medicine: Jie geng (Platycodon root), Ren zhong huang (licorice fermented in a bamboo tube in a cesspit over winter)
📖 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseChild Suddenly Collapses with Convulsions and Foaming at the Mouth: Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Epilepsy (Zhuifeng Qutan Wan, Cured Within Half a Year)
Medicine: Fang Feng (Saposhnikovia root), Tian Ma (Gastrodia)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseVomiting Everything, Eight Days Without Food, Death Bed Already Prepared? Doctor Gong Tingxian's Modified Erchen Tang for Qi-Stagnation Phlegm-Heat Vomiting — Calmed in Two Doses
Medicine: Ban Xia (Pinellia), Fu Ling (Poria)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CasePeriod Bleeding That Wouldn't Stop — Like a Mountain Collapsing? Doctor Li Dongyuan Stopped It with One Dose
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Dang gui (angelica)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseAn Epidemic That Swelled People's Faces Shut, and a Doctor Who Pounded His Own Positions? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Puji Xiaodu Yin for 'Big-Head Epidemic'
Medicine: Huang qin (scutellaria), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseToothache So Bad She Rode a Horse to Suck in Cold Air? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Wind-Heat Toothache Formula for Liu Jingli's Wife
Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Hu tong lei (poplar resin)