Xuan shen (figwort root): Chinese Medicine Cases
24 related cases
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case
Can't Speak, Voice Gone, Throat Tight and Ulcerated? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Loss of Voice from Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBreathing Difficulty, Can't Catch Your Breath, Worse When Lying Down? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Sunken Chest Qi (Da Qi Xia Xian) — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseAsthma Attacks, Panting That Won't Stop, and Diarrhea You Can't Control? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case Treated with the Single-Herb Yam Drink (一味薯蓣饮)
Medicine: Dry Chinese yam slices (gan shan yao pian), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome) — the cooling partner for huang qi
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Nine-Year-Old Boy Kept Coughing, Running Warm and Losing Weight After a Cold? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared the Residual Heat with a Modified Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang (White Tiger plus Ginseng Decoction) — Five Doses Cured Him
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Lu dang shen (Shanxi codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Cold He Didn't Take Seriously Turned Into Consumptive Cough with Afternoon Fever a Year Later? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared the Latent Pathogenic Heat First, Then Nourished the Yin — Under Ten Doses Cured Him
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseWheezing 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 Xichun (张锡纯) CaseWhole-Body Swelling, Scanty Urine and Bloating? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Bai Shao (White Peony Root) Formula for Yin-Deficiency Edema
Medicine: Bai shao (white peony root), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever Barely Above Normal, but Drowsy All Day with Cracked Lips? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats a Febrile Disease at the Shaoyin Stage
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Sheng huai di huang (raw rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSudden High Fever, Drowsiness and Groaning? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Autumn Warm Disease with Latent Heat — Baihu Decoction plus Radish Seed and Forsythia
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 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 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) 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBreathing Stops While Asleep? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Shengxian Decoction (Lift the Sinking) for Sinking of Great Qi That Causes Sleep Apnea
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseNeck Tendons Contracting, Stiff Back, Head Pulled Back? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan for Tendon Spasm (Zong Jin Contracture)
Medicine: Ru xiang (frankincense), Mo yao (myrrh)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseYellow Nasal Discharge and a Stuffy Nose That Won't Clear? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Heat-Type Rhinitis with Sheng Shi Gao (Raw Gypsum)
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed at 1.5 liang (about 45 g), Long dan cao (Chinese gentian)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChest Heat and Restlessness You Can't Sit Still? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of a 92-Year-Old with Upper-Body Deficiency Heat
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai Chinese yam), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBurning Heat and Night Coughing You Can't Sleep Through? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of a Student with Labor-Heat Cough
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (dried Chinese yam), Da gan gou qi (sweet large wolfberry)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CasePeriods Stopped for Months, With Dry Cough and Chest Tightness? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Amenorrhea Treated with Liquan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (dried Chinese yam), Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCoughing, Wasting, and Stopped Periods? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Zisheng Tang (Nourishing Life Decoction) for Tuberculosis (Consumption) and Amenorrhea
Medicine: Sheng shan yao (dried Chinese yam, huai yam), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHeadache So Bad You Can't Get Out of Bed or Sleep at Night? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Qinggan Zhenni Fang (Clear the Liver and Suppress the Reversal Formula) for Headache from Liver Fire Rising
Medicine: Sheng hang shao (raw white peony), Bai zi ren (arborvitae seed)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseStomach Pain, Feeling Blocked, Burping and Acid Reflux? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Huangqi Jianzhong Tang (Astragalus Fortify the Middle Decoction) Variation for Stomach Pain from Liver Qi Stagnation
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai mountain yam), Da gan gou qi (large sweet Gansu wolfberry)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CasePain Under Both Ribs, and Dizzy When It Hurts Badly? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Raw Astragalus Formula for Rib Pain from Deficient Liver Qi
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Sheng hang shao (raw white peony)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBelly Pain, Diarrhea and a Lingering Fever? Doctor Zhang Xichun Softened the Liver with White Peony Root to Stop the Wood Attacking the Earth
Medicine: Sheng hang shao (raw white peony root), Huai shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild with High Fever, Convulsions and Eyes Rolling Up? Doctor Zhang Xichun Used Antelope Horn Alone to Stop the Seizures
Medicine: Antelope horn (ling yang jiao), Raw gypsum (sheng shi gao)