Wu wei zi (schisandra berry): Chinese Medicine Cases
12 related cases
📖 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) CaseFainting 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) CaseEye 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) CaseGoing 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) CaseTwo 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 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 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseDelirious 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHereditary Cough and Wheezing? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Step-by-Step Treatment of Consumptive Lung Disease (Chen Linsheng, Age 18)
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huaìshan yam), Gou qi zi (goji / wolfberry)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseDozens 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) CaseNight Emissions Too Frequent, Face Burning Hot While Hands and Feet Stay Cold, and No Sleep: Doctor Miao Xiyong Treats Nocturnal Emission with Huang Bai (Phellodendron) as the Chief Herb, Clearing Both Deficiency Fire and Excess Fire
Medicine: Huang bai (Phellodendron bark), Zhi mu (anemarrhena root)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseSweating Nonstop After Childbirth — Sweating at Every Sound or Hot Drink: Doctor Miao Xiyong Treats Postpartum Spontaneous Sweating by Nourishing Blood and Astringing Sweat, with Chao Suanzaoren (Stir-Fried Sour Jujube Seed) as the Chief Herb
Medicine: Chao suanzaoren (stir-fried sour jujube seed), Ren shen (Asian ginseng)