Zhi mu (anemarrhena): Chinese Medicine Cases
54 related cases
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case
Always Feeling Cold, Like a Cold That Isn't a Cold? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats a 70-Year-Old Almost Killed by Mistaken Cold Herbs (Fuzi Lizhong Tang to Reverse a Drug Error)
Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Gan jiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan'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) CaseSuddenly Can't Breathe or Speak in the Middle of the Night? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Dang gui (angelica 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) CaseShortness of Breath, Can't Catch Your Breath, Worse After Anger? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Anger-Induced Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CasePalpitations, Shortness of Breath, Can't Catch Your Breath After a Fright? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Fright-Induced Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseArm Aching, Weak and Always Feeling Hot? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Liver Qi Deficiency — Raw Astragalus and Cornus Fruit to Tonify Liver Yin and Yang
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Shan yu rou (cornus fruit, dogwood)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseLower Abdominal Pain That Pulls Down and Reaches the Waist, With a Lump Below the Belly Button? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Sinking of the Great Qi With Liver Qi Stagnation — Liyu Shengxian Decoction (理郁升陷汤)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseAlways Thirsty, Constantly Urinating, Getting Thinner No Matter How Much You Eat? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Xiaoke (Diabetes) with Yu Ye Tang (Jade Liquid Decoction) — Chinese Yam as the Core Herb
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao / raw huai yam (Chinese yam), Sheng huang qi / raw astragalus
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSuddenly Can't Catch Your Breath, Qi Sinking Down? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Sunken Chest Qi with Ren Shen (Ginseng) in Place of Huang Qi (Astragalus)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseStomach Pain for Three Years That No Treatment Could Fix? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared Latent Heat with Raw Gypsum
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCoughing for Two Years and Getting Weaker? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Consumptive Cough with Li Quan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng shan yao (raw Chinese yam), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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) CaseCoughing Up Blood Every Year, Phlegm Choking the Throat, Breathless at the Slightest Movement? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Sinking of the Great Qi with Shengxian Tang Plus Longgu and Muli — and One Dose Opened Blocked Urination in the Second Case
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (Anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseFever, Thirst and Foaming at the Mouth for Over Twenty Days That No Doctor Could Fix? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Ming Dynasty Epidemic Fever Case — One Dose of Dan Dou Chi, Sheng Shi Gao, Zhi Mu and Mai Men Dong Sweats the Pathogen Out
Medicine: Dan dou chi (fermented soybean), Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum)
📖 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseNight Emissions, a Clouded Head and No Energy? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Treatment with Chenshen Bujing Wan (Cinnabar-Coated Essence-Supplementing Pill) and His 'Longevity' Health Rhyme
Medicine: Zhu sha (cinnabar), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCold Feet Always Mean a Cold Body? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Cures Cold Legs Below the Knees With Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) — True Heat Hiding Behind False Cold, Gone in Three Doses
Medicine: Shi gao (gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseUrinating Drip by Drip, Each Trip Takes Half an Hour? Doctor Zhang Xichun Used Raw Astragalus (Huangqi) to Promote Urination and Cure Liver Qi Deficiency
Medicine: Sheng huangqi (raw astragalus), Shan yu rou (cornus / dogwood fruit)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Lump in a Woman's Belly Kept Her in Bed? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Li Chong Tang (Regulating the Chong Vessel Decoction) for Abdominal Mass
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseA Fever That Won't Go Away for a Month, and a Cold Feeling in the Chest — Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Phlegm-Heat Disguised as Cold
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever Got Worse After Taking Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Wind-Warmth with Latent Heat — a Bowl of Gypsum Rice-Gruel Decoction Cures a General
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Jing mi (northeastern rice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Fever That Gets Worse After Sweating? Doctor Zhang Xichun Saved a 7-Year-Old From Warm Disease With Just Two Prescriptions
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever That Won't Come Down Even After Cooling Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun's 'Failed' Case Shows Why White Tiger Decoction Needs Ginseng
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHard Lump in Lower Belly After Childbirth? Doctor Zhang Xichun Dissolved the Postpartum Mass by Tonifying Qi and Blood While Removing Stasis with Li Chong Tang
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Tian hua fen (trichosanthes root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseMissed Periods and a Hard Lump in the Belly? Doctor Zhang Xichun First Tonified Vital Qi, Then Removed Blood Stasis to Dissolve the Amenorrhea Mass
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw huai yam), Da gan gou qi (large sweet wolfberry)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseToe Pain for Thirty Years, Flaring Up So Bad He Couldn't Walk? Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Phlegm-Fire and Damp-Heat — Cured in Three Ten-Day Rounds
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 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) 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 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 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) CaseSudden Stroke, Hemiplegia, or Needle-Like Pains? Four Stroke Cases from Doctor Zhu Danxi: Regulate Qi and Blood with the Four Gentlemen and Four Substances Decoctions
Medicine: Ren Shen (ginseng), Bai Zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseShort of Breath After a Shock or Anger? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Shengxian Decoction (Lift the Sinking) for Sinking of Great Qi Caused by Emotions
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 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) CaseSweating at the Slightest Movement, Upper-Body Sweats, or Drenching Sweats? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Shengxian Decoction (Lift the Sinking) for Sinking of Great Qi That Causes Sweating
Medicine: Shan yu rou (cornus fruit, shan zhu yu) — pit must be removed, Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever That Kept Coming Back No Matter What — Until Eight Liang of Gypsum (and a Pear) Broke It: Doctor Zhang Xichun's Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) Plus Qing Lian Qiao for Typhoid Fever with Latent Heat
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever, Delirium, Unconsciousness, Staring Eyes — What to Do? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Baihu Jia Renshen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) for Typhoid with Meningitis
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Sheng di huang (raw Rehmannia)
📖 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 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) CaseChild Fever with Coughing and Wheezing? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated a Child's Cough-Wheezing with Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) — It's Not Asthma!
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed at 2.5 liang (about 75 g), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever So Severe She Fell into a Coma and Wouldn't Wake Up? Doctor Zhang Xichun Brought Her Back with Shigao Jingmi Tang (Gypsum-Rice Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed at 4 liang (about 120+ g), Jing mi (rice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFace Swollen and Sores Weeping Yellow Fluid? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Heavy-Dose Raw Gypsum Strategy for Epidemic Head-and-Face Swelling (Da Tou Wen)
Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Ling Yang Jiao (antelope horn)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseShort of Breath, Limp Limbs, Panting After Any Exercise? Doctor Zhang Xichun's 'Lift the Sunken Qi' Formula (Sheng Xian Tang)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHoarse for Half a Year, Voice Nearly Gone? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Three Cases of Sinking of the Great Qi: Hoarseness, a Trembling Voice and a Tight Throat (Shengxian Tang with Xuan Shen)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseMissed Periods, Chills and Fever, Pain Under the Ribs? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Liyu Shengxian Tang for Sinking Qi with Stagnation (Three Cases)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseAlways Hungry, Can't Stop Eating? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Cases of Ravenous Appetite Caused by Sinking of the Great Qi (Da Qi Xia Xian)
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBlood in the Stool After a Bowel Movement? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Baitouweng Tang (Pulsatilla Decoction) Variation for Liver Fire Stirring Blood with Heart-Spleen Deficiency
Medicine: Sheng huai di huang (raw rehmannia), Bai tou weng (pulsatilla)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseRed Tongue, Dry Mouth and No Saliva? Doctor Wang Mengying Saves a Man Whose Yin Deficiency Was Mistreated with Warming Herbs — One Dose Turned the Crisis Around
Medicine: Xuan shen (figwort root / Scrophularia), Zhi mu (Anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseHigh Fever, Cough with Vomiting, and Sleeplessness? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Yangming Heat with Qi-Yin Injury — One Dose of Zhu Ye Shi Gao Tang (Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction), Cured by Breakfast
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseVomiting Everything, Even Fainting From It — Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Taiqing Yin (Supreme Clearing Drink) for Stomach-Fire Vomiting: One Bowl Calms It Down
Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Zhi Mu (Anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseLegs Too Weak to Stand, Cold All Over — Yet the Real Problem Was Heat? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Zi Shen Wan for 'True Heat, False Cold'
Medicine: Zhi mu (anemarrhena), Huang bai (phellodendron)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseCan't Urinate, Belly Swollen Like a Drum? Doctor Li Dongyuan Thought All Night and Came Up With Zi Shen Wan — Cured in One Dose
Medicine: Zhi mu (anemarrhena), Huang bai (phellodendron)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseFever, Wasting, Night Sweats, and No Appetite for Six Months? Luo Tianyi's Four-Pronged Treatment for 'Deficiency With Heat' in a 23-Year-Old Official
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)