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📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Edema, Urinary Difficulty, and Cold Hands and Feet from Years of a Bad Temper: Doctor Xue Lizhai Warns Yang and Strengthens the Body After Previous Doctors Made It Worse — How to Correctly Treat Illnesses Caused by Long-Term Emotion

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Can't Get Pregnant and Your Period Won't Stop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures a Young Woman's Infertility with Just Four Doses of the Spleen-Restoring and Free-and-Easy Formulas — and the Family Decides Against a Concubine

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Zhi zi (gardenia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Swollen Lips and Fever After Childbirth That Only Got Worse: Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures Postpartum Deficiency-Fire — Strengthen Qi First, with Three Formulas Rotated by Time of Day

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Coughing Up Blood When Angry or Tired? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Hematemesis Cases — Soothe the Liver and Drain Fire in the Morning, Boost Qi and Nourish Yin at Night (Xiao Yao San by Day, Gui Pi Tang with Liu Wei Di Huang Wan at Night)

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Dang gui (angelica root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Heavy Bleeding and Waves of Body Heat That Won't Clear No Matter How Much You Cool? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Metrorrhagia Case — True Cold Hiding Behind False Heat (Gui Fu Di Huang Wan to Guide the Fire Home)

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Hiccups That Won't Stop, Hiccuping on Every Breath? Yu Jiayan Treats a Critical Case of Stomach-Wind Hiccups (Xuanfu Daizhe Tang to Sink Rebellious Qi, Life Saved in Two Doses)

Medicine: Xuan fu hua (inula flower), Dai zhe shi (hematite)
📖 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) Case

Chronic 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 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Baby Vomiting and Diarrhea from Cold: Zhang Jingyue Treats His Own Son with a Sweet-Tasting Decoction

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Hu jiao (black peppercorns)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Bloody 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Uncontrollable Diarrhea for a Month, Wasting to Skin and Bones? Doctor Miao Xiyong Detected Hidden Heat and Cured Croton-Seed Poisoning Diarrhea

Medicine: Chuan huang lian (Coptis), Bai shao yao (white peony root)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Fainting Right After Waking Up, Drifting In and Out of Consciousness? Doctor Miao Xiyong Treated Heart-Kidney Disharmony With Nourishing Pills and a Prescription for Living

Medicine: Yuan zhi (polygala root), Tian men dong (asparagus root)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Eye Pain Like It's About to Fall Out, Body Aching Like Being Beaten, Coughing Day and Night? Doctor Miao Xiyong Treated Liver Fire, Lung Heat and Blood Stasis Set Off by Grief and Anger

Medicine: Tong bian (boy's urine), Tian men dong (asparagus root)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Going Crazy After Childbirth, Picking Up a Knife to Kill, or Panicking at Every Sound? Doctor Miao Xiyong Treated Two Cases of Postpartum Emotional Illness: Nourish the Blood, Settle the Spirit, Clear Deficiency Fire

Medicine: Tong bian (boy's urine), Long chi (dragon tooth fossil)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Two Months Without Sleep, Unable to Eat, Wasting Away? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Yin-Deficiency Insomnia: Large-Dose Ginseng to Tonify Qi and Settle the Spirit

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Suan zao ren (sour jujube seed)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Can'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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Sore Throat Every Month, Can't Even Eat When It Flares Up? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Yin-Deficiency Throat Pain — the Zhuanxi Dasheng Gao (Great Nourishing Paste) That Cured Six Years of Suffering

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Gui ban (tortoise plastron)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Suddenly Can't Catch Your Breath, Qi Sinking Down? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Sunken Chest Qi with Ren Shen (Ginseng) in Place of Huang Qi (Astragalus)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Coughing for Two Years and Getting Weaker? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Consumptive Cough with Li Quan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)

Medicine: Sheng shan yao (raw Chinese yam), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Cough, Fever, Vomiting After Every Meal, Wasting Away Fast? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated a 22-Year-Old's Consumptive Cough with Li Quan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)

Medicine: Gan shan yao (dried Chinese yam), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Wheezing 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Sores All Over the Throat That Hurt More With Every Cooling Treatment? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Throat Lichen (Hou Xuan) — Stopped Clearing Fire, Replenished Kidney Essence Instead, and the Patient Was Well Within Half a Year

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Stool 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

No Bowel Movement for Half a Month With a Bloated Belly? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Yang-Deficiency Constipation (Yin Jie) — Nourish Kidney Essence First, Then Warm the Yang

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Night Emissions, a Clouded Head and No Energy? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Treatment with Chenshen Bujing Wan (Cinnabar-Coated Essence-Supplementing Pill) and His 'Longevity' Health Rhyme

Medicine: Zhu sha (cinnabar), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Dizzy 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Always Catching Colds With a Thick White Tongue Coating? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage With a White Slippery Tongue Coating (Zhi Zi Tang to Induce Vomiting, Then Xiao Chai Hu Tang to Harmonize) — and the Thousand-Year History of Tongue Diagnosis

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Unbearable 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) Case

High Fever With Thirst and Exhaustion? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) to Clear Heat and Nourish Qi — Both Patients Fully Recovered

Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Fever 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Leg 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Chills and Fever on a Strict Schedule, and Medicine Wouldn't Make Him Sweat? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Basin of Herbal Foot-Soak Opened the Blocked Channels

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Dry Cough in Autumn? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats Two Women Whose Autumn Dryness Was Made Worse by Wrong Treatment (One With Uncontrollable Diarrhea, One Unconscious for Days)

Medicine: Huang qin (Scutellaria root), Di gu pi (wolfberry root bark)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Hard Lump in the Belly That Hurts When Touched? Doctor Yu Jiayan: When Qi Clumps It Is Not a Blood Clot — Warm the Yang and Dissolve It in Three Doses

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite, prepared), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Diarrhea 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) Case

Cold and Fever During Your Period, Then Nighttime Raving and Unconsciousness? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Heat Entering the Blood Chamber — Clear the Phlegm First, Then Xiao Chaihu Tang Plus Sheng Dihuang

Medicine: Tian nan xing (arisaema), Bai jiang can (white stiff silkworm)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Mouth 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Heart 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Eyes Won't Open After a Fever, and the Breath Feels Hot as Fire? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats a Mishandled Cold Damage Case (Huai Zheng) With Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction)

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Comatose After a Cold, Barely Breathing? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian Rescues a Dying 70-Year-Old With a Single Bowl of Ginseng Decoction

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Belly 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) Case

Frequent Night Urination and Cloudy, Milky Urine? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Treatment of Lower Xiaoke (Kidney Diabetes) with Guipi Tang and Dabuyuan Jian — 300-Plus Doses That Pulled a Dying Official Back from the Brink

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Vomiting and Diarrhea After Eating Mushrooms? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Warming-Yang Treatment of Mushroom Poisoning (When Poison-Clearing Herbs Made It Worse)

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

No Appetite and a Stuffed Feeling in the Stomach? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Cases of Deficiency-Cold Fullness (Pi Man) Cured by Warming and Supplementing — Not Digestion Aids

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Diarrhea After Drinking That Lasted for Years? Doctor Zhang Jingyue Cured His Own Chronic Wine-Related Diarrhea by Warming the Spleen and Kidneys

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Vomiting 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Child Diarrhea Then Mouth Sores and Swollen Throat: Doctor Zhang Jingyue Treats Yin-Damaged Diarrhea with Deficiency Fire — Leading the Fire Back to Its Source

Medicine: Zhi fu zi (prepared aconite), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Pregnant Woman with High Fever and a Black, Thorny Tongue: Doctor Miao Xiyong's Bold Use of Raw Gypsum to Save Mother and Baby

Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Eight 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) Case

Flogging Wound Won't Ulcerate and the Pus Is Thin? Doctor Xue Lizhai Restored Qi and Blood (Plus Child's Urine as First Aid for Trauma)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Suddenly Drowsy and About to Faint? Doctor Xue Lizhai First Uses Tongbian (Boy's Urine) for Emergency, Then Shiquan Dabu Tang to Rebuild Primordial Qi

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chest Tightness and Phlegm After Anger? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Triple Combo — Xiaoyao Wan, Buzhong Yiqi Wan, and Liuwei Dihuang Wan — Restores Health Within a Year

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Shortness of Breath, Head Shaking, and Flailing Limbs After Anger? Doctor Xue Lizhai Strengthens the Spleen to Calm a Distraught Woman

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Aching Bones, Too Much Phlegm, and Always Craving Cold Water? Doctor Xue Lizhai Tonifies the Spleen and Kidneys for an Imperial Guard Who Looked Strong

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Blood in Stool, Night Sweats, and Chills and Fever? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Morning Qi-Tonifying, Afternoon Blood-Nourishing Cure for a Scholar

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Fever, Thirst and Heavy Sweating After a Cold Remedy? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Shiquan Dabu Tang with Fuzi Turned It Around Overnight

Medicine: Fu zi (prepared aconite), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chills and Fever, a Numb Right Hand — Worse After Every Cooling Herb? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Buzhong Yiqi Tang Plus a Warm Herbal Hand Soak

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Injured Foot But No Bleeding, Wound That Won't Heal? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Shiquan Dabu Tang Rebuilds Qi and Blood

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chest 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) Case

Abdominal 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) Case

Stomach Pain So Bad You Want to Cry, with Ice-Cold Hands and Feet? Doctor Xue Lizhai's One-Dose Cure for Liver Yang Deficiency

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Headaches and Watery Regurgitation That Stop the Moment You Eat Ginger? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Three-Year Mystery Solved by Strengthening the Middle Jiao

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Itchy, Oozing Toe Webs Like Athlete's Foot That Keeps Coming Back? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Cases: Same Dampness, Two Directions (Liu Jun Zi Tang plus Ginger & Cinnamon; Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang plus Fu Ling, Ban Xia)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Fever with Cold Hands and Feet, No Appetite — Worse the More You Clear Heat? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Spleen-Stomach Yang Deficiency with False Heat (Ba Wei Wan & Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang)

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Vomiting Acid, Uncontrollable Drooling, Nausea at the Smell of Food — Worse the More You Clear Heat? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Rescue of a Dying Woman with Spleen Cold: Salt-Mugwort-Aconite Navel Pack and Sublingual Aconite Pills

Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Fever, Restlessness and a Lychee-Shell Tongue After One Night of Indulgence in a 79-Year-Old Man? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Kidney-Essence Deficiency with Floating False Fire: Shiquan Dabu Tang Plus Bawei Wan to Guide Fire Back to Its Origin

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Seminal Emission Out of Control After Sex During Dysentery Recovery, Night Sweats Like Rain, Cold Limbs and Sleeplessness? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Kidney-Essence Deficiency Treated with Shiquan Dabu Tang Plus Bawei Wan (Guifu Dihuang Wan) — Cured in Two Doses

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Always Craving Cold Water, Soles Burning Like Irons, Thorns on the Tongue — Then Chills and Two Weeks of Constipation? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Kidney-Essence Deficiency Treated in Three Twists (Jiajian Bawei Wan, Bawei Wan, and Shiquan Dabu Tang)

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chest Feels Blocked, Food Sits Undigested, Growing Thin with Fever and Dry Mouth? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Mingmen Fire Deficiency That Cannot Generate Earth (Buzhong Yiqi Tang with Dried Ginger and Cinnamon, Then Bawei Wan)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Can'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) Case

Red Face, Fever, Chest and Stomach Pain That Gets Worse With Cooling Medicine? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Through 'True Cold, False Heat' — One Dose of Buzhong Yiqi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction) Cures It

Medicine: Ren Shen (ginseng), Bai Zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Bloody Stool, Chronic Diarrhea and Bloating That Got Worse With Every Cooling Herb? Doctor Xue Lizhai Saw Through 'False Heat, True Cold' — Ten Days of Warming the Spleen and Kidney Stopped the Bleeding

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Bloody Stool Getting Worse With Cooling Herbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Spleen Qi Sinking and Cures It With One Dose of Buzhong Yiqi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction) Plus Blast-Fried Ginger

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Diarrhea When Angry or Depressed? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Spleen Qi Sinking and Cures It With Liujunzi Tang (Six Gentlemen Decoction) Plus Sishen Wan (Four Spirits Pill) to Warm Yang and Tonify the Spleen

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Can't Eat, Just Drinking Tea and Eating Fruit All Day — Even Your Period Has Become Light and Late? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen Deficiency with Guipi Tang (Spleen-Returning Decoction) and Liujunzi Tang (Six Gentlemen Decoction) plus Wu Zhu Yu

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Diarrhea Every Time the Wind Blows? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Dampness Diarrhea with Shengyang Yiwei Tang (Yang-Raising and Stomach-Soothing Decoction)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus root), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Coughing 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) Case

Feeling Fat, Cold, Dizzy and Phlegmy — Is It Real Obesity or Deficiency Obesity? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Kidney Deficiency with Buzhong Yiqi Tang and Jinkui Shenqi Wan

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Dizzy with Constant Phlegm — Must You Always Attack the Phlegm? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Warning: Both Symptoms Come from Kidney Deficiency, and the Same Pill That Saved One Man Killed Another (Suhexiang Wan)

Medicine: Suhexiang Wan's aromatic herbs: bing pian (borneol), ding xiang (clove), an xi xiang (benzoin), tan xiang (sandalwood), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Mouth Ulcers That Keep Coming Back and Flare Up After Ginger or Garlic — Doctor Xue Lizhai on Deficient-Fire Canker Sores: an Elder Brother with Phlegm and Dizziness, Cured by Gui Fu Di Huang Wan and Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang, Yet Relapsing Within a Month (Fire Not Returning to Its Source)

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan yu rou (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Red, Blurry Eyes Made Worse by Cooling Herbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Lifts the Qi and Nourishes the Blood to Heal Eyes and Ears (Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Ears 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) Case

Constipated and Can't Poop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Deficient Constipation by Rebuilding Qi and Blood (Modified Gui Pi Tang and Ba Zhen Tang)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Urinating Less with Dark Red Urine? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured It by Rebuilding the Spleen and Lungs to Generate Kidney Water (Buzhong Yiqi Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Swollen Feet That Pit When Pressed? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Post-Dysentery Edema with Buzhong Yiqi Tang Plus Fuzi — Better in Two Doses

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Body 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) Case

Hair Falling Out in Clumps, Even Eyebrows Gone? Ming Dynasty Imperial Physician Doctor Xue Lizhai's Hair Loss Cases (Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan — Hair Restored in No Time)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

A 14-Year-Old with Fever and Vomiting Blood, Worse After Cold Medicine? Doctor Xue Lizhai's 'Build the Spleen, Nourish the Kidneys' Approach

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Vomiting Blood the Moment He Got Tired, the Blood Scattered and Thin? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Buzhong Yiqi Tang for Spleen-Lung Qi Deficiency Bleeding

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Delayed Period with Fever and Fatigue? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Deficiency Case (Twice Mistreated, Nearly Blind — a Year of Nourishing the Spleen and Stomach Brought Full Recovery)

Medicine: Huang lian (coptis, goldthread), Shui zhi (leech)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Always Angry and Suppressing It, with an Abdominal Lump and Irregular Periods: Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Gynecological Mass Cases (Buzhong Yiqi Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan Nourishing Liver Yin — Same Disease, One Cured and One Lost, All Because of Emotion)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Heavy Bleeding with Low-Grade Fever That Gets Worse the More You Clear Fire: Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Deficiency Metrorrhagia Case (Qi Deficiency Fever — Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang with Charred Ginger)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Bloating, Rib Pain and Afternoon Fever That Kept Getting Worse? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Stagnation and Anger Injuring the Liver and Spleen (Guipi Tang in the Morning, Augmented Xiao Yao Wan at Night — Cured in Three Months)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Breast Lump Like a Goose Egg, Red and Painful? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Mastitis After Anger by Strengthening the Spleen and Calming the Liver (Eight-Ingredient Decoction, Cured in Fourteen Doses)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Vomiting and Bleeding After a Meal and a Fit of Anger During Pregnancy? Doctor Xue Lizhai Stops a Threatened Miscarriage by Clearing Liver Fire and Strengthening the Spleen (Six Gentlemen Decoction Then Augmented Free and Easy Powder, Cured in Four Doses)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Child Fell Into a Pond, Got a Fever, Then Fell Into a Coma After Taking Medicine? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Life-Saving Rescue with Lizhong Tang and Xuanming Powder

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (white atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Child Convulsed and Passed Out After Eating Too Much Cold Food? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Wu Xie Si Jun Zi Tang (Aconite-Scorpion Four Gentlemen Decoction) for Chronic Infantile Convulsion (Man Pi Feng / Slow Spleen Wind) — False Heat with True Cold

Medicine: Chuan wu (aconite root), Xie zi (scorpion)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Can You Take Ginseng During a Cold? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats Father and Son Struck by Spring Warm Disease (Wenbing): Ginseng Added in Secret Saved the Son's Life

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Bloating 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Diarrhea for Months, a Dozen Times a Day, a Swollen Face? Yu Jiayan's 'Reversing the Boat Against the Current' Treatment for Recurrent Dysentery with Renshen Baidu San and Forced Sweating

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Bloody Stool for 30 Years and a Prolapsed Anus? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Four-Herb Pill Saved a Patient Everyone Gave Up On

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case

Vomited a Whole Basin of Blood at Dawn? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats Life-Threatening Hematemesis After a Night of Excess (Ginseng Decoction with Heixi Pills to Draw the Qi Back Down, Then Donkey-Hide Gelatin and Qiushi)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Heixi Dan (Black Tin Pills)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Diarrhea 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) Case

Chickenpox with a Fever So High He Couldn't See or Hear? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treated Only the Upright Qi — No Pox Medicine at All

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Headache 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) Case

Talking Nonsense and Seeing Things That Aren't There? Doctor Zhu Danxi Fortified Upright Qi and Resolved Phlegm to Cure a Case That Looked Like 'Possession'

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Miscarriage at Two or Three Months, Every Time — How Doctor Zhu Danxi Secured the Fetus with Atractylodes Decoction and Scutellaria Powder

Medicine: Bai zhu (atractylodes), Huang qin (scutellaria / baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

A Boil on the Arm, Red and Swollen — and Nothing Would Heal It? Doctor Zhu Danxi's 'Strengthen the Qi First' Approach to Sores

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Dang gui (angelica sinensis)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Belly 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) Case

Burning Feet and Always Feeling Hot? Doctor Zhu Danxi Says It's Not 'Strong Fire' but Yin Deficiency — a Case That Ended in Paralysis

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Hiccups 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Hiccups So Severe She Shook and Passed Out? Doctor Zhu Danxi: One Bowl of Ginseng Rhizome Decoction to Expel Stubborn Phlegm

Medicine: Ren shen lu (ginseng rhizome/crown), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Collapsed on the Toilet, Drenched in Sweat? Doctor Zhu Danxi Rescues a Stroke Collapse with Moxa at Qihai and Ginseng Paste

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Fever, 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) Case

Common Cold with Fever and Body Aches? Doctor Zhu Danxi Sweated by Nourishing — Treating a Weak Man's Cold with Tonics Instead of Sweating Herbs

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Delirious and Utterly Weak After a Cold? Doctor Zhu Danxi Tonifies Qi First — Rescuing Two Patients Wrongly Sweated and Purged

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Chills and Fever That Won't Sweat? Doctor Zhu Danxi Cured Malaria with a Basin of Foot-Soaking Water

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Elderly 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) Case

Face 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) Case

Can't Urinate? Doctor Zhu Danxi Cured an 80-Year-Old Man's Blocked Urine with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Vomiting 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Nine Months Pregnant and Suddenly Can't Urinate? Doctor Zhu Danxi Lifted the Qi Instead of Draining the Bladder

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Dang gui (Chinese angelica, body and tail)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Sudden Stroke, Hemiplegia, or Needle-Like Pains? Four Stroke Cases from Doctor Zhu Danxi: Regulate Qi and Blood with the Four Gentlemen and Four Substances Decoctions

Medicine: Ren Shen (ginseng), Bai Zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Numb Fingers, Bloating, Phlegm, Dizziness After Any Effort? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang with Ba Wei Wan — and Why Wind-Dispelling Pills Killed the Cured Patient

Medicine: Huang Qi (astragalus), Ren Shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Numb Arms, Constant Phlegm, Watery Eyes? Doctor Xue Lizhai on 'Numbness Is Qi Deficiency' — Why Wind-Dispelling Treatment Made It Worse, and Liu Wei Di Huang Wan with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang Cured It in Under Three Months

Medicine: Shu Di Huang (cooked rehmannia), Shan Zhu Yu (cornus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Always Feel Like Catching a Cold, Sneezing in the Wind With a Clear Runny Nose? Doctor Xue Lizhai on the 'Pseudo-Cold' of Spleen-Lung Qi Deficiency — Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang Plus Mai Men Dong and Wu Wei Zi

Medicine: Huang Qi (astragalus), Ren Shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Two Arms Aching and Skin Itching Like Bugs Crawling? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Qi Deficiency Treatment (Buzhong Yiqi Tang)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Sudden Dizziness and Collapse, Phlegm Surging, Numb Limbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures Kidney Deficiency Vertigo

Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Numb Hands, Twitching Muscles, and Feeling Weak in Your 50s: A Stroke Warning? Doctor Gong Tingxian's 'Paralysis Within Three Years' Prophecy for Two Old Friends (Shoufeng Shunqi Wan & Yanling Guben Dan for Prevention; Yangrong Tang & Jianbu Huqian Wan for Recovery)

Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Huo ma ren (hemp seed)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Belly 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) Case

Dry Mouth That Won't Quench No Matter How Much You Drink? Doctor Zhang Xichun Used Heavy-Dose Bai Zhu (Atractylodes) to Treat Yang-Deficiency Dry Mouth

Medicine: Bai zhu (atractylodes), used heavily at over one liang (about 30 g), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Hoarse for Half a Year, Voice Nearly Gone? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Three Cases of Sinking of the Great Qi: Hoarseness, a Trembling Voice and a Tight Throat (Shengxian Tang with Xuan Shen)

Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) Case

Hiccups That Won't Stop and Come On Every Time You Get Cold — How Doctor Wang Mengying Cured Spleen-Yang Deficiency with Lizhong Tang and Xuanfu Daizhe Tang

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) Case

Vomiting, 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) Case

Miscarriage at Two or Three Months of Pregnancy, Every Time — How Doctor Wu Jutong Secured the Fetus with His Great Nourishing Paste (Zhuan Xi Da Sheng Gao) of Blood-and-Flesh Tonics

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Xi yang shen (American ginseng)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Sore Throat That Isn't Heat: Doctor Wu Jutong Warms Yang to Cure a 35-Year-Old Woman's Throat Pain of Over Ten Years

Medicine: Rou gui (cinnamon bark), Gao liang jiang (galangal)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

A Hard Lump in the Belly and Constant Anger? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Abdominal Mass (Zheng Jia) from Stagnant Liver Qi — Hua Zheng Hui Sheng Dan

Medicine: Xin jiang sha (madder-dyed silk gauze), Tao ren (peach kernel)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Nocturnal Emission, Tinnitus, Dizziness and Chronic Fatigue? Doctor Wu Jutong's Kidney-Yin Deficiency Cases Cured with Zhuan Xi Da Sheng Gao (Great Birth Paste)

Medicine: Xi yang shen (American ginseng), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Child's Fever Won't Go Away Despite Cold Treatment? Doctor Miao Xiyong Traces It to a Hidden Fall and Blood Stasis

Medicine: Cao hong hua (safflower), Dang gui (angelica root)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Newlywed Boy Gets Smallpox, Rash Turns Blue, and He Talks Nonsense: Doctor Miao Xiyong Clears Residual Stomach Heat with Gypsum and Ginseng

Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Dozens of Belches After a Few Bites of Food: Doctor Miao Xiyong Rebuilds Vital Qi with Shengmai Decoction and Cures His Stubborn Son-in-Law in Half a Year

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Mai men dong (dwarf lilyturf root)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Can't Eat, Bloated Belly, Constant Diarrhea? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Qin Gong'an — Ginseng Cured Him the First Time, the Same Ginseng Nearly Killed Him Three Years Later (Spleen Qi Deficiency vs Spleen Yin Deficiency)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Vomiting 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Colds That Come Back Again and Again and Never Fully Clear? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Repeated External Contractions in a Qi-Deficient Patient (Baihe Disease) — Ren Shen, Mai Men Dong and Chao Zhi Ke, One Dose Cured

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Mai men dong (ophiopogon)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

Child'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)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Vomiting Everything, Even Fainting From It — Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Taiqing Yin (Supreme Clearing Drink) for Stomach-Fire Vomiting: One Bowl Calms It Down

Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Zhi Mu (Anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Legs and Feet Swollen Like Boots, Belly Hard as a Drum — Doctor Zhang Jingyue's All-Out Tonifying Cure for Edema (Shenfu Liyin Jian): Fully Recovered in 20 Doses

Medicine: Shu Di Huang (prepared Rehmannia), Dang Gui (Chinese Angelica)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Child 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Can't Sweat Out a Cold, Then the Sweating Won't Stop? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Treatment of Crisis Sweating in Febrile Disease (Liuwei Huiyang Yin) — Cured in 10 Days

Medicine: Ren Shen (Ginseng), Shu Di Huang (prepared Rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Elderly Leg Swelling, Whole-Body Edema and Scanty Urine? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Xuanyang and Jiyin Decoctions for Yin-Yang Dual Deficiency Edema

Medicine: Ren Shen (ginseng), Mai Dong (ophiopogon root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

High Fever with Delirium and Unconsciousness? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Raw Gypsum Water with Codonopsis for Syphilis Complicated by Epidemic Heat

Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Lu Dang Shen (Codonopsis root from Luzhou, Shanxi)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Fever with Palpitations and Shortness of Breath? Doctor Zhang Xichun's White Tiger plus Ginseng Decoction for an External Cold in a Weak-Constitution Patient

Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Ren Shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) Case

Period 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) Case

A Headache That Felt Like the Skull Was Splitting, and the Room Was Spinning? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Classic Phlegm Formula Fixed It in Two Doses

Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Tian ma (gastrodia)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) Case

Heavy Uterine Bleeding, Bloody Diarrhea, and a Body That Wouldn't Stop Leaking? Doctor Li Dongyuan's 'Benefit the Stomach, Lift the Yang' Formula

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) Case

An 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 Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Fever, Wasting, Night Sweats, and No Appetite for Six Months? Luo Tianyi's Four-Pronged Treatment for 'Deficiency With Heat' in a 23-Year-Old Official

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Belly Bloated Like a Drum After Overeating? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Emergency Purge for Food Stagnation (Beiji Wan)

Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Ba dou (croton seed)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Too Exhausted to Get Out of Bed, Diarrhea That Won't Stop, No Appetite? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Shengyang Tiaozhong Tang (Yang-Raising Middle-Regulating Decoction)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Stomach Pain So Bad He Couldn't Sit Up? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Fuyang Zhuwei Tang (Yang-Supporting Stomach-Helping Decoction)

Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Hei fu zi (black aconite)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Face Turning Black Around the Mouth? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Sheng Yang Shun Qi Tang (Yang-Raising Qi-Smoothing Decoction) for Melasma and a Dull Complexion

Medicine: Sheng ma (bugbane rhizome), Ge gen (kudzu root)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Face 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)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Headache That Nothing Could Fix? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Shunqi Hezhong Tang (Decoction to Harmonize the Middle and Smooth the Qi) for Qi-Deficiency Headache

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus root), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣, 1180–1251) Case

A Neck Boil That Almost Killed a Legendary Poet? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Huanglian Xiaodu Yin (Coptis Dispersing Toxicity Decoction)

Medicine: Huang lian (coptis rhizome), Huang qin (scutellaria root)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Morning 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)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Child Suddenly Twitching, Talking Nonsense, and Unable to Speak? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Convulsions After Forced Sweating — Renshen Yiqi Tang (Ginseng Qi-Boosting Decoction)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Diarrhea With Undigested Food and Cold Hands and Feet? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Cold Diarrhea After Summer Cold Drinks — Qianshi Baizhu San (Qian Yi's Atractylodes Powder)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)