Ze xie (alisma): 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCan't Sleep at Night with a Restless Heart and a Heavy Head? Doctor Xu Shuwei's Two-Step Cure for Insomnia After Mistaken Sweating — First Zhuling Tang (Polyporus Decoction), Then a Decoction to Restore Fluids
Medicine: Zhu ling (polyporus), Fu ling (poria)
📖 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 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseSudden Yellow Skin and Eyes (Jaundice)? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Yin Chen Hao Tang (Capillaris Decoction) to Clear Damp-Heat — Yellowing Cleared Within Days
Medicine: Yin Chen (capillary artemisia), Zhi Zi (gardenia fruit)
📖 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 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) 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) 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 Every Time the Wind Blows? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Dampness Diarrhea with Shengyang Yiwei Tang (Yang-Raising and Stomach-Soothing Decoction)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus root), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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) 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) 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) 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseBloating So Bad You Can't Eat or Pass Stool or Urine? Yu Jiayan Treats Deficiency Bloating (Lizhong Tang + Wuling San): Stopping the Doctor Who Wanted to Purge with Two Liang of Rhubarb
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseFever, Sweating, Shivering and Thirst in Summer Heat? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treats Heatstroke with Ren Shen Si Ling San
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 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 Jingyue (张景岳) CaseBack Pain So Bad You Can't Stand Straight — and You Can't Urinate? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Da Fen Qing Yin (Major Clearing-Divide Drink) for Damp-Heat Low Back Pain: One Dose Unblocks the Urine and the Pain Vanishes
Medicine: Fu Ling (Poria), Ze Xie (Alisma)
📖 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 Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseA Headache That Felt Like the Skull Was Splitting, and the Room Was Spinning? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Classic Phlegm Formula Fixed It in Two Doses
Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Tian ma (gastrodia)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseSwollen Finger Joints, Sore Knees, and a Heavy Body? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Dampness Flowing into the Limbs — Da Qianghuo Tang (Major Notopterygium Decoction)
Medicine: Qiang huo (notopterygium), Du huo (angelica pubescens)