Yuan zhi (polygala root): Chinese Medicine Cases
13 related cases
📖 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) 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 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCoughing and Wheezing Worse the Moment You Lie Down? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated a Merchant's Phlegm-Wheezing from External Cold with Internal Fluid, Using Xiao Qing Long Tang (Minor Green Dragon Decoction) without Ephedra, plus Almond
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai Chinese yam), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseCan'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) CaseConstipated 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) CaseBloating, 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 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 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseAlways Feel Like You Have a Cold That Won't Go Away? Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Deficiency Fever Mistaken for Wind-Cold (Buzhong Yiqi Tang plus Yuanzhi, Suanzaoren, Zhuru and Maimendong — Cured in Two Doses)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 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)