Constipation: Chinese Medicine Cases
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📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) Case
Hiccups That Won't Stop, Hiccuping on Every Breath? Yu Jiayan Treats a Critical Case of Stomach-Wind Hiccups (Xuanfu Daizhe Tang to Sink Rebellious Qi, Life Saved in Two Doses)
Medicine: Xuan fu hua (inula flower), Dai zhe shi (hematite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseStomach Pain for Three Years That No Treatment Could Fix? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared Latent Heat with Raw Gypsum
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseToo Exhausted to Get Out of Bed? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Exhaustion from Overwork with Ginseng, Chinese Yam and Cornus
Medicine: Ye tai shen (wild Codonopsis), Sheng Huai shan yao (raw Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCough, Fever, Vomiting After Every Meal, Wasting Away Fast? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated a 22-Year-Old's Consumptive Cough with Li Quan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)
Medicine: Gan shan yao (dried Chinese yam), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseFever, Thirst and Foaming at the Mouth for Over Twenty Days That No Doctor Could Fix? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Ming Dynasty Epidemic Fever Case — One Dose of Dan Dou Chi, Sheng Shi Gao, Zhi Mu and Mai Men Dong Sweats the Pathogen Out
Medicine: Dan dou chi (fermented soybean), Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseStool and Urine Both Blocked? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Heat-Stagnation Constipation (Yang Jie) — 60 Grams of Crude Rhubarb to Hack Through a Tangled Knot
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (Glauber's salt)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseNo Bowel Movement for Half a Month With a Bloated Belly? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Yang-Deficiency Constipation (Yin Jie) — Nourish Kidney Essence First, Then Warm the Yang
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseNo Bowel Movement for Half a Month With a Bloated Belly? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Yang-Deficiency Constipation (Yin Jie) — Nourish Kidney Essence First, Then Warm the Yang
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseConstipated 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) CaseConstipated 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 Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseFever 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever Barely Above Normal, but Drowsy All Day with Cracked Lips? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats a Febrile Disease at the Shaoyin Stage
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Sheng huai di huang (raw rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever Got Worse After Taking Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Wind-Warmth with Latent Heat — a Bowl of Gypsum Rice-Gruel Decoction Cures a General
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Jing mi (northeastern rice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Fever That Gets Worse After Sweating? Doctor Zhang Xichun Saved a 7-Year-Old From Warm Disease With Just Two Prescriptions
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever That Won't Come Down Even After Cooling Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun's 'Failed' Case Shows Why White Tiger Decoction Needs Ginseng
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseDry Cough in Autumn? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats Two Women Whose Autumn Dryness Was Made Worse by Wrong Treatment (One With Uncontrollable Diarrhea, One Unconscious for Days)
Medicine: Huang qin (Scutellaria root), Di gu pi (wolfberry root bark)
📖 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseA Boil on the Back, Swollen Like a Plate and Hard as Stone? Doctor Xu Shuwei Warns: Never Leave the Pathogen Behind — Cold Damage, Constipation, and the Boil That Followed
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Mang xiao (mirabilite / sodium sulfate)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseAlways Craving Cold Water, Soles Burning Like Irons, Thorns on the Tongue — Then Chills and Two Weeks of Constipation? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Case of Kidney-Essence Deficiency Treated in Three Twists (Jiajian Bawei Wan, Bawei Wan, and Shiquan Dabu Tang)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseBloating So Bad You Can't Eat or Pass Stool or Urine? Yu Jiayan Treats Deficiency Bloating (Lizhong Tang + Wuling San): Stopping the Doctor Who Wanted to Purge with Two Liang of Rhubarb
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseElderly Man with Nonstop Phlegm, Dizziness and Weakness? Doctor Zhu Danxi Diagnoses a Great Deficiency (Da Xu Zheng), Rebuilds Vital Qi with Large Tonics, and Clears Phlegm-Heat Gently with Lian Bai Wan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHeadache with Weak Legs, Always About to Fall? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Cerebral Congestion with Weakness of Both Legs (Settling Liver-Wind Approach)
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite), Huai niu xi (achyranthes root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Blood Pressure with Headache and a Sensation of Qi Rushing Up? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Zhengan Xifeng Tang Case of Cerebral Congestion Headache
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite, 30 g at the start — heavy mineral that suppresses upward-rushing qi), Sheng huai di huang (raw rehmannia from Henan — nourishes yin, cools blood)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBelching, Vomiting, and Qi Rushing Up? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Liver Qi Stagnation Causing Stomach Qi Counterflow
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite, 30 g to start — a heavy mineral that presses rebellious qi downward), Sheng mai ya (raw malt — gently generates liver qi and helps digestion; pairs with hematite to raise on the left while lowering on the right)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseNine-Year-Old Girl With Twenty Days of High Fever, Delirium and Sudden Loss of Voice: Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Baihu Jia Renshen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) for Warm Disease with Sinking of the Chest Qi
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ye tai shen (wild codonopsis / dangshen)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChest Heat and Restlessness You Can't Sit Still? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of a 92-Year-Old with Upper-Body Deficiency Heat
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai Chinese yam), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseVomiting After Meals, Food Stuck in the Stomach, Constipation for Ten Days? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Formula to Descend Stomach Qi and Settle the Chong Meridian
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite), Sheng hang shao (raw Hangzhou peony root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseStomach Pain, Feeling Blocked, Burping and Acid Reflux? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Huangqi Jianzhong Tang (Astragalus Fortify the Middle Decoction) Variation for Stomach Pain from Liver Qi Stagnation
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai mountain yam), Da gan gou qi (large sweet Gansu wolfberry)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseColds That Come Back Again and Again and Never Fully Clear? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Repeated External Contractions in a Qi-Deficient Patient (Baihe Disease) — Ren Shen, Mai Men Dong and Chao Zhi Ke, One Dose Cured
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Mai men dong (ophiopogon)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseVomiting Everything, Eight Days Without Food, Death Bed Already Prepared? Doctor Gong Tingxian's Modified Erchen Tang for Qi-Stagnation Phlegm-Heat Vomiting — Calmed in Two Doses
Medicine: Ban Xia (Pinellia), Fu Ling (Poria)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFever for Nine Days, No Bowel Movement, Restless and Craving Ice Water? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Cold-Heat Differentiation of Exogenous Yangming Fu-Excess (Tiaowei Chengqi Tang / Stomach-Regulating Qi-Coordinating Decoction)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb, 大黄), Mang xiao (mirabilite / sodium sulfate, 芒硝)