Zhi gan cao (honey-fried licorice): Chinese Medicine Cases
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📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case
Can't Get Pregnant and Your Period Won't Stop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cures a Young Woman's Infertility with Just Four Doses of the Spleen-Restoring and Free-and-Easy Formulas — and the Family Decides Against a Concubine
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Zhi zi (gardenia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseStiff Neck, Tight Shoulders, Constant Neck Cramps? Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Gui Zhi Jia Ge Gen Tang (Cinnamon Twig plus Kudzu Decoction) to Loosen the Stiff Neck and Back
Medicine: Ge gen (kudzu root), Gui zhi (cinnamon twig)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseAfraid of Wind and Cold, Sweating Profusely, and Joint Pain? — Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Loufeng (Wind-Leakage Sweating) With Baizhu Fuzi Tang (Atractylodes and Aconite Decoction)
Medicine: Bai zhu (atractylodes), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseBloody Diarrhea in Summer Heat? Doctor Miao Xiyong Cured Dysentery with Blood in Two Doses — After a Day-and-Night Gallop from Suzhou to Hangzhou
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Sheng ma (cimicifuga rhizome)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseUncontrollable 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseTop-of-Head Pain, Photophobia and Fainting Several Times a Day? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case: Yin Deficiency and Liver Syncope Treated with Da Ding Feng Zhu
Medicine: Da Sheng Di (large raw rehmannia root), Sheng Bai Shao (raw white peony 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) CaseNo Bowel Movement for Half a Month With a Bloated Belly? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Yang-Deficiency Constipation (Yin Jie) — Nourish Kidney Essence First, Then Warm the Yang
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever That Comes and Goes, a Cold That Just Won't Leave? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage with Gui Zhi Ma Huang Ge Ban Tang (Half Cinnamon Twig and Ephedra Decoction) — Resolve the Exterior Before Purging
Medicine: Gui Zhi (cinnamon twig), Ma Huang (ephedra)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseFever for 8 Days After Childbirth, Until Convulsions? Doctor Wu Jutong's Postpartum Wind-Warm Case — Not One Heat-Clearing Herb, Just Nourishing Yin to Break the Fever
Medicine: Xi sheng di (raw rehmannia), Mai dong (ophiopogon)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseHard Lump in the Belly That Hurts When Touched? Doctor Yu Jiayan: When Qi Clumps It Is Not a Blood Clot — Warm the Yang and Dissolve It in Three Doses
Medicine: Fu zi (aconite, prepared), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCold With Sweating and Aversion to Wind? Doctor Xu Shuwei Prescribed Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) — the First Formula of the Shanghan Lun, From the Very First Case of His Case-Study Classic
Medicine: Gui zhi (cassia twig / cinnamon twig), Shao yao (peony root — the famous white vs. red peony question)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCough and Wheezing After a Cold? Doctor Xu Shuwei Prescribed Guizhi Jia Houpu Xingzi Tang (Cinnamon Twig, Magnolia Bark and Apricot Kernel Decoction) — When a Guizhi Tang Pattern Comes With a Bit of Wheezing, Add Two Herbs
Medicine: Gui zhi (cassia twig), Shao yao (peony root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHeart Palpitations and Hands Pressed to the Chest? — Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Heart-Yang Deficiency Caused by Excessive Sweating with Guizhi Gancao Tang (Cinnamon Twig and Licorice Decoction)
Medicine: Gui zhi (cinnamon twig), Zhi gan cao (honey-fried licorice)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseEyes Won't Open After a Fever, and the Breath Feels Hot as Fire? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats a Mishandled Cold Damage Case (Huai Zheng) With Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction)
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap 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) 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) 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) CaseChills and Fever, a Numb Right Hand — Worse After Every Cooling Herb? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Buzhong Yiqi Tang Plus a Warm Herbal Hand Soak
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseAbdominal Pain and Diarrhea After Anger? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Modified Xiao Chai Hu Tang Cured It in One Dose
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 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) 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) CaseBloody Stool Getting Worse With Cooling Herbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Spleen Qi Sinking and Cures It With One Dose of Buzhong Yiqi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction) Plus Blast-Fried Ginger
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseDiarrhea When Angry or Depressed? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Spleen Qi Sinking and Cures It With Liujunzi Tang (Six Gentlemen Decoction) Plus Sishen Wan (Four Spirits Pill) to Warm Yang and Tonify the Spleen
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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) CaseSwollen Feet That Pit When Pressed? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Post-Dysentery Edema with Buzhong Yiqi Tang Plus Fuzi — Better in Two Doses
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseHeavy Bleeding with Low-Grade Fever That Gets Worse the More You Clear Fire: Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Deficiency Metrorrhagia Case (Qi Deficiency Fever — Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang with Charred Ginger)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseChild Fell Into a Pond, Got a Fever, Then Fell Into a Coma After Taking Medicine? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Life-Saving Rescue with Lizhong Tang and Xuanming Powder
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (white atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseChild Convulsed and Passed Out After Eating Too Much Cold Food? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Wu Xie Si Jun Zi Tang (Aconite-Scorpion Four Gentlemen Decoction) for Chronic Infantile Convulsion (Man Pi Feng / Slow Spleen Wind) — False Heat with True Cold
Medicine: Chuan wu (aconite root), Xie zi (scorpion)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseIs Back Pain Always Kidney Deficiency? Doctor Yu Jiayan Cured a Mistreated Cold-Damage (Shanghan) Back Pain with Taoren Chengqi Tang (Peach Kernel Qi-Ordering Decoction) Plus Cinnamon and Aconite
Medicine: Tao Ren (peach kernel), Gui Zhi (cinnamon twig)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseHiccups That Won't Stop After Diarrhea? Doctor Zhu Danxi Nourished the Spleen and Cleared Damp-Heat — and Refused Aconite and Ginger
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseUrine as White as Milk? Doctor Zhu Danxi Clears Phlegm-Dampness with Erchen Decoction to Cure White Turbid Urine
Medicine: Fu ling (Poria), Chen pi (aged tangerine peel)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseVomiting After Eating and Gurgling in the Chest? Doctor Zhu Danxi on 'Ye Ge' (Dysphagia) Triggered by Eating in Anger
Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Chen pi (tangerine peel)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseCan't Urinate? Doctor Zhu Danxi Cured an 80-Year-Old Man's Blocked Urine with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseCan't Urinate? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Five Approaches to Urinary Retention and Scanty Urine
Medicine: Chen pi (tangerine peel), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseNine Months Pregnant and Suddenly Can't Urinate? Doctor Zhu Danxi Lifted the Qi Instead of Draining the Bladder
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Dang gui (Chinese angelica, body and tail)
📖 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) CaseAlways Feel Like Catching a Cold, Sneezing in the Wind With a Clear Runny Nose? Doctor Xue Lizhai on the 'Pseudo-Cold' of Spleen-Lung Qi Deficiency — Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang Plus Mai Men Dong and Wu Wei Zi
Medicine: Huang Qi (astragalus), Ren Shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseTwo Arms Aching and Skin Itching Like Bugs Crawling? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Qi Deficiency Treatment (Buzhong Yiqi Tang)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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) CaseEars Ringing Like You're Going Deaf, No Appetite, Stomach Bloated? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Li Yin Tang for Heart-Lung Yang Deficiency
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseHiccups That Won't Stop and Come On Every Time You Get Cold — How Doctor Wang Mengying Cured Spleen-Yang Deficiency with Lizhong Tang and Xuanfu Daizhe Tang
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseCan't Lie Down to Sleep: Wheezing and Coughing When You Lie Flat — Doctor Wu Jutong Treats Wind-Cold with Phlegm-Fluid Retention, Changing the Formula Every Day for Six Days
Medicine: Gui zhi (cinnamon twig), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseHoarse After a Cold or Suddenly Can't Speak? Doctor Wu Jutong's Cases of Sudden Loss of Voice (Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang)
Medicine: Ma huang (ephedra), Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseCoughing Up Blood, Chest Fullness and Constipation? Doctor Wu Jutong's Phlegm-Fluid Retention Case Treated with Modified Xiao Qing Long Tang (Minor Green Dragon Decoction)
Medicine: Yun fu ling (Yunnan poria), Gui zhi (cinnamon twig)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseCan't Eat, Bloated Belly, Constant Diarrhea? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Qin Gong'an — Ginseng Cured Him the First Time, the Same Ginseng Nearly Killed Him Three Years Later (Spleen Qi Deficiency vs Spleen Yin Deficiency)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseCan't Sweat Out a Cold, Then the Sweating Won't Stop? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Treatment of Crisis Sweating in Febrile Disease (Liuwei Huiyang Yin) — Cured in 10 Days
Medicine: Ren Shen (Ginseng), Shu Di Huang (prepared Rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChest Tightness, Constant Heat, and Terrible Wheezing Every Few Weeks? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured It by Warming Yang — Because the 'Heat' Was a Lie
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseHeavy Uterine Bleeding, Bloody Diarrhea, and a Body That Wouldn't Stop Leaking? Doctor Li Dongyuan's 'Benefit the Stomach, Lift the Yang' Formula
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseToothache So Bad She Rode a Horse to Suck in Cold Air? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Wind-Heat Toothache Formula for Liu Jingli's Wife
Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Hu tong lei (poplar resin)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseStomach Pain So Bad He Couldn't Sit Up? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Fuyang Zhuwei Tang (Yang-Supporting Stomach-Helping Decoction)
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Hei fu zi (black aconite)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseFace Blown Crooked by the Wind? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Qinjiao Shengma Tang (Gentian Macrophylla and Bugbane Decoction) for Facial Paralysis
Medicine: Sheng ma (bugbane rhizome), Ge gen (kudzu root)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseHeadache That Nothing Could Fix? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Shunqi Hezhong Tang (Decoction to Harmonize the Middle and Smooth the Qi) for Qi-Deficiency Headache
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus root), Ren shen (ginseng)