Zhi shi (immature bitter orange): Chinese Medicine Cases
13 related cases
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case
Constipated But Peeing Too Much? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Pi Yue (Spleen-Binding) Constipation With Maziren Wan (Hemp Seed Pill) — Moistening the Intestines Releases Both the Stool and the Pathogen
Medicine: Huo ma ren (hemp seed), Bai shao (white peony root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHigh Fever, Talking Nonsense, Grasping at the Air? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Typhoid Delirium and Carphologia With Xiao Cheng Qi Tang (Minor Purgative Decoction) — One Bowel Movement and the Patient Wakes Up
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Hou po (magnolia bark)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseCold Hands and Chills but Actually Phlegm-Heat? Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Wind-Dampness Turned into Phlegm-Heat by a Mistaken Warming Treatment
Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Huang qin (baical skullcap root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseConstipated, Hard Belly, Fever and Delirium? Doctor Xu Shuwei Used Da Chengqi Tang (Major Purgative Decoction) for the Yangming Fu-Solid Pattern — One Dose Unblocked the Bowels and Broke the Fever
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever and Chills With a Restless, Nauseated Stomach? Why Xiao Chaihu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction) Failed and Da Chaihu Tang (Major Bupleurum Decoction) Cured It — Doctor Xu Shuwei's Combined Shaoyang-Yangming Case
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (scutellaria)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever, Sweating and Constipation for Days? Doctor Xu Shuwei's Da Chaihu Tang (Major Bupleurum Decoction) for an Urgent Yangming Purgation — a Wealthy Young Man Cured in Two Doses
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (scutellaria)
📖 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseCold Hands and Feet Like Ice, Shivering All Over — Is It Always Yang Deficiency? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang (Regulating the Stomach and Purging Qi Decoction) for Heat Reversal (Re Jue) from Yangming Fu Excess — True Heat Hidden Behind False Cold
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseHard Lump in the Stomach, Pain Pulling at the Flanks? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treats Accumulations (Ji Ju) with Da Cheng Qi Tang and a Halved Dose of Rhubarb
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseBelly Swollen Like a Spider and Gasping for Air? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian Saved the Princess of Lu with 'Treating Blockage by Filling' (Buzhong Yiqi Tang with Liuwei Dihuang Wan, Six to Seven Jin of Ginseng Before Full Recovery)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseDrinking Water Feels Like a Knife Cut in Your Stomach and You Can't Eat? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of a Gastric Bezoar (Da Cheng Qi Tang)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / Glauber's salt)
📖 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseTen Years Unable to Eat, Seizures at Any Sound? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Liver Constraint (Gan Zhao) and Collateral Disease Treated with Xuanfu Flower Decoction
Medicine: Xuan fu hua (inula flower), Xin jiang (newly dyed silk, the much-debated ingredient)