Rou gui (cinnamon bark): Chinese Medicine Cases
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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) CaseHeavy 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) CaseAlways 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseBaby 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseRaving Mad, Tearing Off Her Clothes, Unstoppable Strength? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Mania Cured with One Dose of Bitter-Cold Herbs at the Arrival of Autumn
Medicine: Long Dan Cao (Chinese gentian root), Huang Lian (goldthread rhizome)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseLegs 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) CaseSores 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) 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseNo 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) 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseFrequent 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) CaseNo 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) CaseDiarrhea 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) 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseNosebleed That Won't Stop? Doctor Zhang Jingyue Saves a Young Man Drained by Excess with Zhen Yin Jian (Suppressing Yin Decoction)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Huai niu xi (Achyranthes root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseChild 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseSuddenly 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) CaseAching 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) CaseFever, 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) 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) CaseItchy, 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) CaseFever 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) CaseFever, 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) CaseSeminal 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) CaseAlways 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) CaseChest 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) 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) CaseEating a Bit More Triggers Diarrhea, Stomach Gurgles, Feet Ice-Cold Even in Summer? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Mingmen Fire Deficiency Failing to Generate Earth (Bawei Wan / Guifu Dihuang Wan)
Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 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) CaseDiarrhea with Pus and Blood, Worse with Cold, Loose Stools at Dawn? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Kidney Yang Deficiency with Si Shen Wan (Four Spirits Pill) — One Dose Brings Immediate Relief, Two Doses Complete Cure
Medicine: Bu gu zhi (psoralea), Rou dou kou (nutmeg)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseDiarrhea at Dawn, Right on Schedule Every Morning? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Cockcrow Diarrhea (Wuweizi San and Bawei Wan)
Medicine: Wu wei zi (schisandra fruit), Wu zhu yu (evodia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseFeeling 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) CaseDizzy 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) CaseMouth 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) CaseRed, 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) CaseBloated Belly That Isn't Really 'Blocked': Ming Imperial Physician Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Yang-Deficiency Abdominal Distension with Jinkui Shenqi Wan — Well in Under a Month
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseThree Months Without a Period and a Four-Cun Lump in the Belly? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Liver-Spleen Stagnation Case (Awei Plaster Plus Buzhong Yiqi by Day, Guipi by Night — Fully Recovered After a Year)
Medicine: A wei (asafoetida resin), Qiang huo (notopterygium)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseAlways 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 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseVomited 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) CaseFever and Delirium, Talking Nonsense Like Bewitched? Doctor Zhu Danxi Warms Yang to Cure the Sick Young Man of the Zheng Clan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseA 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) 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseNumb 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Twitching, Blinking Eyes or Sucking in the Belly? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Chronic Infantile Convulsion (Slow Convulsion) by Warming the Spleen
Medicine: Chi shi zhi (red halloysite), Sheng huai shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Convulsions After Catching Cold, Afternoon Fever, Vomiting and Diarrhea? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Slow Spleen Wind with Zhuhan Dangjing Tang and Modified Lizhong Dihuang Tang
Medicine: Hu jiao (black pepper), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Convulsions, Vomiting and Diarrhea? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Heavy Shu Di with Fu Zi and Rou Gui for Chronic Infantile Convulsions (Leading Fire Back to Its Origin)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 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) CaseSore 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseNewlywed 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseLegs 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) 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseCan'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 Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseLegs Too Weak to Stand, Cold All Over — Yet the Real Problem Was Heat? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Zi Shen Wan for 'True Heat, False Cold'
Medicine: Zhi mu (anemarrhena), Huang bai (phellodendron)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseCan't Urinate, Belly Swollen Like a Drum? Doctor Li Dongyuan Thought All Night and Came Up With Zi Shen Wan — Cured in One Dose
Medicine: Zhi mu (anemarrhena), Huang bai (phellodendron)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseStomach 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)