Can't eat: Chinese Medicine Cases
20 related cases
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case
Sores 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) CaseBloated Belly and Unable to Eat for Over Twenty Days? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Severe Abdominal Distension — Shenxiang San (Divine Fragrance Powder: Clove & Cardamom) With Moxibustion Resolves It in Three Days
Medicine: Ding xiang (clove), Bai dou kou (white cardamom)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseBelly Swollen Like a Spider After Grief, Unable to Eat? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Single Abdominal Distension (Dan Fu Zhang): Untie the Heart's Knot First, Then the Medicine — Ten Doses Saved Her Life
Medicine: Xuan Fu Hua (inula flower), Xin Jiang (newly dyed red silk, usually dyed with madder)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseComatose After a Cold, Barely Breathing? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian Rescues a Dying 70-Year-Old With a Single Bowl of Ginseng Decoction
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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) CaseVomiting Acid, Uncontrollable Drooling, Nausea at the Smell of Food — Worse the More You Clear Heat? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Rescue of a Dying Woman with Spleen Cold: Salt-Mugwort-Aconite Navel Pack and Sublingual Aconite Pills
Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseBloody Stool, Chronic Diarrhea and Bloating That Got Worse With Every Cooling Herb? Doctor Xue Lizhai Saw Through 'False Heat, True Cold' — Ten Days of Warming the Spleen and Kidney Stopped the Bleeding
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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) 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 Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseCoughing with Chest Pain and Blood-Streaked Sputum? Doctor Yu Jiayan Saves His Friend's Elderly Mother from a Lung Abscess (Tingli Dazao Xiefei Tang to Open the Lungs, Then 60 Days of Adapting the Formula to the Moment)
Medicine: Tinglizi (lepidium seed), Dazao (jujube)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseTrouble Swallowing? Doctor Yu Jiayan Saves a Woman Who Could Not Eat or Drink for Twenty Days (Modified Xuanfu Daizhe Tang with Chishizhi Instead of Daizheshi — the Slow, Gentle Method)
Medicine: Xuanfuhua (inula flower), Daizheshi (hematite)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseDiarrhea Every Time You Worry, and It Still Hurts Afterward? Doctor Zhu Danxi: Worry Harms the Spleen — Tonify the Spleen and Nourish the Blood (Cured in Two Days)
Medicine: Renshen (ginseng), Baizhu (white atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseMissed Periods for Three Months and a Pulse You Can't Even Feel? Doctor Zhu Danxi Shows It Was Phlegm-Heat Blocking the Channels — Not Deficiency — and Treats It with the Purgative Sanhua Shenyou Wan
Medicine: Gan sui (Gansui root), Da ji (Peking spurge root)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CasePeriods Stopped for Months, With Dry Cough and Chest Tightness? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Amenorrhea Treated with Liquan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (dried Chinese yam), Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite)
📖 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)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseMissed Periods at 19, Rib Pain So Bad She Couldn't Eat? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Amenorrhea from Liver Constraint and Blood Stasis, Treated with Xuanfu Flower Decoction and Huazheng Huisheng Pills
Medicine: Xin jiang (newly dyed silk), Xuan fu hua (inula flower)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Hard Lump in the Stomach for Years, Can't Eat? Doctor Zhang Xichun Dissolved the Mass with Chicken Gizzard Lining (Jineijin) and Fermented Rice Wine Starter
Medicine: Sheng jineijin (raw chicken gizzard lining), Sheng jiuqu (raw fermented rice wine starter)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHard Lumps in the Belly for Over 20 Years? Doctor Zhang Xichun Dissolved Stubborn Old Abdominal Masses with Li Chong Tang
Medicine: Sheng jineijin (raw chicken gizzard lining), Sanleng (common burreed rhizome)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseLeg Pain So Bad She Couldn't Walk — Then Her Back and Shoulders Ached Too? Doctor Zhang Xichun Tonified the Spleen with Bai Zhu (Atractylodes) and Cured It in About Ten Days
Medicine: Bai Zhu (atractylodes), Dang Gui (Chinese angelica)