Shan yao (Chinese yam): 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) CaseCoughing 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) 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSuddenly Can't Breathe or Speak in the Middle of the Night? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Dang gui (angelica root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHeart Pain, Racing Heart, Sweating and Jolting at Every Sound? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Jiji Decoction with Cornus Fruit (Shan Yu Rou) for Heart Pain from Qi-Blood Deficiency — When Blood Stasis Is Not the Real Cause
Medicine: Shan yu rou (cornus officinalis fruit / dogwood fruit), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia root)
📖 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseGasping for Air the Moment He Lay Down, Coughing, Flushed and Sweating? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Around-the-Clock Rescue of Severe Consumption (Human Milk with Heche Dihuang Wan)
Medicine: Zi he che (human placenta), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseNight 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 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 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) 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CasePregnant 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseWhole-Body Joint Pain That Won't Bend? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures His 75-Year-Old Mother's Bone and Joint Pain with Liuwei Dihuang Wan plus Zhizi and Chaihu
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseChest 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) CaseShortness 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) 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) CaseBloody 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) 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) 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) 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) CaseSuddenly Blind at Age 20? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Sudden Vision Loss with Mai Wei Di Huang Wan (Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill Plus Ophiopogon and Schisandra)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseUrinating 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) 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) 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) CaseHair 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) CaseA 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) CaseVomiting 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) 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 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 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 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseNumb 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) CaseSudden 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 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseFeet Swollen and Urine Scant After Dysentery? Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's One-Dose Fix with Buzhong Yiqi Decoction plus Aconite
Medicine: Buzhong Yiqi Decoction, Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseNumb 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 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 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 Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseFever, 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)