Cold hands and feet: Chinese Medicine Cases
26 related cases
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case
Chronic Diarrhea for Years, Worse When You Are Stressed? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Long-Standing Jueyin Diarrhea With Wu Mei Wan (Mume Pill), Cured Within Days
Medicine: Wu mei (mume fruit, smoked dark plum), Xi xin (asarum)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseAlways Drowsy and Want to Sleep All Day, Plus Vomiting, Diarrhea and Cold Hands and Feet? — Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Diagnoses Shaoyin Disease and Treats It With Wuzhuyu Tang (Evodia Decoction)
Medicine: Wu zhu yu (evodia), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseFoaming at the Mouth, Ice-Cold Limbs — but the Pulse Was Perfectly Calm? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Feigned-Illness Case — One Look Exposed the Trick, and a Scare with Moxibustion Cured It Overnight
Medicine: Ai rong (moxa floss — mentioned only to frighten the patient; it was never actually applied), Vinegar (served as the 'medicine' to test whether she could swallow)
📖 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 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseStomach Pain So Bad You Want to Cry, with Ice-Cold Hands and Feet? Doctor Xue Lizhai's One-Dose Cure for Liver Yang Deficiency
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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) CaseSeminal Emission Out of Control After Sex During Dysentery Recovery, Night Sweats Like Rain, Cold Limbs and Sleeplessness? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Kidney-Essence Deficiency Treated with Shiquan Dabu Tang Plus Bawei Wan (Guifu Dihuang Wan) — Cured in Two Doses
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseDiarrhea at Dawn, Right on Schedule Every Morning? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Cockcrow Diarrhea (Wuweizi San and Bawei Wan)
Medicine: Wu wei zi (schisandra fruit), Wu zhu yu (evodia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseDiarrhea at Dawn, Right on Schedule Every Morning? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Cockcrow Diarrhea (Wuweizi San and Bawei Wan)
Medicine: Wu wei zi (schisandra fruit), Wu zhu yu (evodia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseBloated Belly That Isn't Really 'Blocked': Ming Imperial Physician Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Yang-Deficiency Abdominal Distension with Jinkui Shenqi Wan — Well in Under a Month
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseBloated Belly That Isn't Really 'Blocked': Ming Imperial Physician Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Yang-Deficiency Abdominal Distension with Jinkui Shenqi Wan — Well in Under a Month
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseVomiting Blood the Moment He Got Tired, the Blood Scattered and Thin? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Buzhong Yiqi Tang for Spleen-Lung Qi Deficiency Bleeding
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseChild Convulsed and Passed Out After Eating Too Much Cold Food? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Wu Xie Si Jun Zi Tang (Aconite-Scorpion Four Gentlemen Decoction) for Chronic Infantile Convulsion (Man Pi Feng / Slow Spleen Wind) — False Heat with True Cold
Medicine: Chuan wu (aconite root), Xie zi (scorpion)
📖 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) CaseAlways Cold No Matter How Warm You Dress? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Ginger-Juice Cure for 'False Cold'
Medicine: Sheng jiang zhi (ginger juice), Xiang you (sesame oil)
📖 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) CaseChills and Fever That Won't Sweat? Doctor Zhu Danxi Cured Malaria with a Basin of Foot-Soaking Water
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (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 Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseVomiting, Diarrhea, Cramps and Near-Collapse — How Doctor Wang Mengying Saved His Friend Zhou Guangyuan Twice: Cholera with Cramps (Huo Luan Zhuan Jin) and a Yearly Malaria Ended by One Old Prescription
Medicine: Huo xiang (agastache), Cang zhu (atractylodes lancea)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseMiscarriage at Two or Three Months of Pregnancy, Every Time — How Doctor Wu Jutong Secured the Fetus with His Great Nourishing Paste (Zhuan Xi Da Sheng Gao) of Blood-and-Flesh Tonics
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Xi yang shen (American ginseng)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseSore Throat That Isn't Heat: Doctor Wu Jutong Warms Yang to Cure a 35-Year-Old Woman's Throat Pain of Over Ten Years
Medicine: Rou gui (cinnamon bark), Gao liang jiang (galangal)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseChild's Fever Won't Go Away Despite Cold Treatment? Doctor Miao Xiyong Traces It to a Hidden Fall and Blood Stasis
Medicine: Cao hong hua (safflower), Dang gui (angelica root)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFeeling Low, Drained, and Cold All Over? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Wen Zhong Yi Qi Tang (Warming the Middle and Replenishing Qi Decoction) Case for Middle Qi Deficiency
Medicine: Fuzi (prepared aconite root), Ganjiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseDiarrhea at Night, Ice-Cold Hands and Feet, Blue Lips? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Spleen-Stomach Deficiency Cold Case (Huangqi Jianzhong Tang / Astragalus Middle-Fortifying Decoction)
Medicine: Huangqi (astragalus, 黄芪), Shaoyao / baishao (white peony root, 芍药/白芍)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseDiarrhea With Undigested Food and Cold Hands and Feet? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Cold Diarrhea After Summer Cold Drinks — Qianshi Baizhu San (Qian Yi's Atractylodes Powder)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)