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Chest tightness: Chinese Medicine Cases

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📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Suddenly 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case

Cough Every Winter That Won't Go Away? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Latent Summer-Heat (Fushu) — Three Kernels Decoction: Clear Dampness First, Avoid 'Freezing' the Heat

Medicine: Apricot kernel (xing ren), White cardamom kernel (bai kou ren)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) Case

A 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 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chest Tightness and Phlegm After Anger? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Triple Combo — Xiaoyao Wan, Buzhong Yiqi Wan, and Liuwei Dihuang Wan — Restores Health Within a Year

Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Chest Feels Blocked, Food Sits Undigested, Growing Thin with Fever and Dry Mouth? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Mingmen Fire Deficiency That Cannot Generate Earth (Buzhong Yiqi Tang with Dried Ginger and Cinnamon, Then Bawei Wan)

Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Constipated and Can't Poop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Deficient Constipation by Rebuilding Qi and Blood (Modified Gui Pi Tang and Ba Zhen Tang)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case

Swollen 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) Case

Vomiting and Bleeding After a Meal and a Fit of Anger During Pregnancy? Doctor Xue Lizhai Stops a Threatened Miscarriage by Clearing Liver Fire and Strengthening the Spleen (Six Gentlemen Decoction Then Augmented Free and Easy Powder, Cured in Four Doses)

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Headache So Bad He Started Saying Goodbye to His Family? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Four-Herb Formula — and the Brother Who Nearly Ruined It with Astragalus

Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) Case

Urine 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) Case

Urine 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) Case

Feet Swollen and Urine Scant After Dysentery? Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's One-Dose Fix with Buzhong Yiqi Decoction plus Aconite

Medicine: Buzhong Yiqi Decoction, Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

The Bleeding Stopped, but His Chest Stayed Hot and Painful with No Appetite? Doctor Zhang Xichun Used Sanqi (Notoginseng) to Dissolve Stagnant Blood — Stopping Bleeding Without Leaving Stasis Behind

Medicine: San qi (notoginseng), San qi powder (notoginseng powder)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case

Missed 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 Li Dongyuan (李东垣) Case

A Headache That Felt Like the Skull Was Splitting, and the Room Was Spinning? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Classic Phlegm Formula Fixed It in Two Doses

Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Tian ma (gastrodia)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) Case

Belly Swollen, Wheezing So Loud It's Heard Outside the Room? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Pingqi San (Qi-Settling Powder)

Medicine: Bai qian niu (white pharbitis / morning glory seed), Qing pi (green tangerine peel)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) Case

Face Red and Swollen, Legs Ice Cold? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Upper-Heat-Lower-Cold Case (Pu Ji Xiao Du Yin Zi / Universal Relief Toxin-Removing Decoction)

Medicine: Wine-fried huangqin (baical skullcap root), Wine-fried huanglian (coptis rhizome)