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Can't sleep: Chinese Medicine Cases

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📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) Case

Fever Getting Worse After Taking Medicine? Sometimes That's a Good Sign — Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Latent Heat Breaking Out Layer by Layer

Medicine: Xi jiao (rhinoceros horn, now replaced by water buffalo horn), Fresh sheng di (rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case

Fever, 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Dry 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Frequent 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Fever, 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Hard 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) Case

Belly 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) Case

High 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)