Fever: Chinese Medicine Cases
65 related cases
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case
Coughing Up Blood When Angry or Tired? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Hematemesis Cases — Soothe the Liver and Drain Fire in the Morning, Boost Qi and Nourish Yin at Night (Xiao Yao San by Day, Gui Pi Tang with Liu Wei Di Huang Wan at Night)
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Dang gui (angelica root)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCan't Sleep at Night with a Restless Heart and a Heavy Head? Doctor Xu Shuwei's Two-Step Cure for Insomnia After Mistaken Sweating — First Zhuling Tang (Polyporus Decoction), Then a Decoction to Restore Fluids
Medicine: Zhu ling (polyporus), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseAfraid of Wind and Cold, Sweating Profusely, and Joint Pain? — Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Loufeng (Wind-Leakage Sweating) With Baizhu Fuzi Tang (Atractylodes and Aconite Decoction)
Medicine: Bai zhu (atractylodes), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseEye Pain Like It's About to Fall Out, Body Aching Like Being Beaten, Coughing Day and Night? Doctor Miao Xiyong Treated Liver Fire, Lung Heat and Blood Stasis Set Off by Grief and Anger
Medicine: Tong bian (boy's urine), Tian men dong (asparagus root)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseCoughing Up Pus with Foul-Smelling Phlegm, Lungs Feeling Like They Are Festering? Doctor Wu Jutong's Lung Abscess Cases — the Qianjin Weijing Tang (Reed Stem Decoction): One Herb Used at 240 g, Pus Reduced by 80–90% After Two Bowls
Medicine: Lu gen / wei jing (reed rhizome / reed stem), Dong gua ren (wax gourd seed)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSweating Profusely, Hot One Moment and Cold the Next, Feeling Like Death Is Near? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Laifu Decoction with Cornus Fruit (Shan Yu Rou) to Anchor the Escaping Vital Qi
Medicine: Shan yu rou (cornus fruit / dogwood fruit), Sheng long gu (raw dragon bone)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseDiarrhea That Would Not Stop for a Month, and a Five-Year-Old Who Would Not Eat? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured This Slippery Diarrhea (Hua Xie) with Nothing but Shu Yu Zhou (Plain Chinese Yam Porridge)
Medicine: Sheng huai shanyao / dried Chinese yam slices (Chinese yam, dioscorea), White sugar (bai shatang)
📖 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) CaseCoughing for Two Years and Getting Weaker? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Consumptive Cough with Li Quan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng shan yao (raw Chinese yam), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Nine-Year-Old Boy Kept Coughing, Running Warm and Losing Weight After a Cold? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared the Residual Heat with a Modified Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang (White Tiger plus Ginseng Decoction) — Five Doses Cured Him
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Lu dang shen (Shanxi codonopsis)
📖 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) 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseGasping for Air the Moment He Lay Down, Coughing, Flushed and Sweating? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Around-the-Clock Rescue of Severe Consumption (Human Milk with Heche Dihuang Wan)
Medicine: Zi he che (human placenta), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia)
📖 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHigh Fever With Thirst and Exhaustion? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) to Clear Heat and Nourish Qi — Both Patients Fully Recovered
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseSudden Yellow Skin and Eyes (Jaundice)? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Yin Chen Hao Tang (Capillaris Decoction) to Clear Damp-Heat — Yellowing Cleared Within Days
Medicine: Yin Chen (capillary artemisia), Zhi Zi (gardenia fruit)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseFever That Comes and Goes, a Cold That Just Won't Leave? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Cold Damage with Gui Zhi Ma Huang Ge Ban Tang (Half Cinnamon Twig and Ephedra Decoction) — Resolve the Exterior Before Purging
Medicine: Gui Zhi (cinnamon twig), Ma Huang (ephedra)
📖 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) 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) CaseFever With a Rash That Won't Go Away? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Warm Disease with Sha Zhen Rash — a Wild Grass Called Bai Mao Gen Finishes the Job
Medicine: Bai mao gen (cogongrass root, fresh), Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum)
📖 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) CaseSudden High Fever, Drowsiness and Groaning? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Autumn Warm Disease with Latent Heat — Baihu Decoction plus Radish Seed and Forsythia
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSudden High Fever, Drowsiness and Groaning? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Autumn Warm Disease with Latent Heat — Baihu Decoction plus Radish Seed and Forsythia
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 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) CaseCold With Sweating and Aversion to Wind? Doctor Xu Shuwei Prescribed Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) — the First Formula of the Shanghan Lun, From the Very First Case of His Case-Study Classic
Medicine: Gui zhi (cassia twig / cinnamon twig), Shao yao (peony root — the famous white vs. red peony question)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseCough and Wheezing After a Cold? Doctor Xu Shuwei Prescribed Guizhi Jia Houpu Xingzi Tang (Cinnamon Twig, Magnolia Bark and Apricot Kernel Decoction) — When a Guizhi Tang Pattern Comes With a Bit of Wheezing, Add Two Herbs
Medicine: Gui zhi (cassia twig), Shao yao (peony root)
📖 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) CaseMuscles Twitching, Heart Racing and Dizziness After Sweating Too Much? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Yang Injury from Mistaken Sweating with Zhenwu Tang
Medicine: Fu ling (poria), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseStomach Pain After Overeating and Mixing Cold and Hot Food? Doctor Gong Tingxian's One-Dose Cure for Cold-Heat Mixed Food Stagnation
Medicine: Fuzi (aconite), Ganjiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseToe Pain for Thirty Years, Flaring Up So Bad He Couldn't Walk? Imperial Physician Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Phlegm-Fire and Damp-Heat — Cured in Three Ten-Day Rounds
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseFever, Thirst and Heavy Sweating After a Cold Remedy? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Shiquan Dabu Tang with Fuzi Turned It Around Overnight
Medicine: Fu zi (prepared aconite), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseFever, Thirst and Heavy Sweating After a Cold Remedy? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Shiquan Dabu Tang with Fuzi Turned It Around Overnight
Medicine: Fu zi (prepared aconite), 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) CaseFever, 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseBloody Stool Getting Worse With Cooling Herbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Spleen Qi Sinking and Cures It With One Dose of Buzhong Yiqi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction) Plus Blast-Fried Ginger
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseBloody Stool Getting Worse With Cooling Herbs? Doctor Xue Lizhai Sees Spleen Qi Sinking and Cures It With One Dose of Buzhong Yiqi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment Qi Decoction) Plus Blast-Fried Ginger
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseA 14-Year-Old with Fever and Vomiting Blood, Worse After Cold Medicine? Doctor Xue Lizhai's 'Build the Spleen, Nourish the Kidneys' Approach
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseHeavy Bleeding with Low-Grade Fever That Gets Worse the More You Clear Fire: Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Deficiency Metrorrhagia Case (Qi Deficiency Fever — Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang with Charred Ginger)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseHeavy Bleeding with Low-Grade Fever That Gets Worse the More You Clear Fire: Doctor Xue Lizhai's Spleen Deficiency Metrorrhagia Case (Qi Deficiency Fever — Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang with Charred Ginger)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseChild Fell Into a Pond, Got a Fever, Then Fell Into a Coma After Taking Medicine? Doctor Yu Jiayan's Life-Saving Rescue with Lizhong Tang and Xuanming Powder
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (white atractylodes)
📖 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) CaseCan You Take Ginseng During a Cold? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats Father and Son Struck by Spring Warm Disease (Wenbing): Ginseng Added in Secret Saved the Son's Life
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseFever, Sweating, Shivering and Thirst in Summer Heat? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treats Heatstroke with Ren Shen Si Ling San
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseCommon Cold with Fever and Body Aches? Doctor Zhu Danxi Sweated by Nourishing — Treating a Weak Man's Cold with Tonics Instead of Sweating Herbs
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild with Measles, Nighttime Heavy Breathing and Convulsions, Danger in an Instant? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Single-Herb Antelope Horn (Lingyangjiao) Emergency Cure
Medicine: Ling yang jiao (antelope horn)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseRash Comes Out Then Sinks Back In? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Antelope Horn (Lingyangjiao) Cases That Drew the Sunken Measles Rash Back Out
Medicine: Ling yang jiao (antelope horn), Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Fever with Coughing and Wheezing? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated a Child's Cough-Wheezing with Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) — It's Not Asthma!
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed at 2.5 liang (about 75 g), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CasePostpartum Sweating, No Sleep All Night and Dizzy Spells? Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Yin Deficiency After Childbirth, Cured by Nourishing Body Fluids
Medicine: Xi yang shen (American ginseng), Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CasePostpartum Sweating, No Sleep All Night and Dizzy Spells? Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Yin Deficiency After Childbirth, Cured by Nourishing Body Fluids
Medicine: Xi yang shen (American ginseng), Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseChild's Smallpox Trapped Under the Skin for Three Days — Doctor Wu Jutong Pulls a Six-Year-Old Boy Back from the Brink (Four Liang of Rhubarb to Drain Toxins, Renzhonghuang to Fight Pestilence)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Zi hua di ding (violet yam root)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseSore, Swollen Throat and Ear Pain After a Cold? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Damp-Heat Throat Block (Clear the Dampness First, and the Heat Lets Go)
Medicine: Jie geng (Platycodon root), Ren zhong huang (licorice fermented in a bamboo tube in a cesspit over winter)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever, Diarrhea Until She Fainted? Doctor Zhang Xichun Saved a Dying Maidservant with Prepared Rehmannia (Shu Di Huang)
Medicine: Shu Di Huang (prepared rehmannia), Sheng Shan Yao (dried Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBelly Pain, Diarrhea and a Lingering Fever? Doctor Zhang Xichun Softened the Liver with White Peony Root to Stop the Wood Attacking the Earth
Medicine: Sheng hang shao (raw white peony root), Huai shan yao (Chinese yam)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever, Belly Pain and Diarrhea Several Times a Day? Doctor Zhang Xichun Combined White Peony Root with Fresh Imperata Root to Clear a Warm-Heat Illness
Medicine: Sheng baishao (raw white peony root), Huai shanyao (Chinese yam slices)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever, Belly Pain and Diarrhea Several Times a Day? Doctor Zhang Xichun Combined White Peony Root with Fresh Imperata Root to Clear a Warm-Heat Illness
Medicine: Sheng baishao (raw white peony root), Huai shanyao (Chinese yam slices)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever with Palpitations and Shortness of Breath? Doctor Zhang Xichun's White Tiger plus Ginseng Decoction for an External Cold in a Weak-Constitution Patient
Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Ren Shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever with Palpitations and Shortness of Breath? Doctor Zhang Xichun's White Tiger plus Ginseng Decoction for an External Cold in a Weak-Constitution Patient
Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Ren Shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseAn Epidemic That Swelled People's Faces Shut, and a Doctor Who Pounded His Own Positions? Doctor Li Dongyuan's Puji Xiaodu Yin for 'Big-Head Epidemic'
Medicine: Huang qin (scutellaria), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseFever, Wasting, Night Sweats, and No Appetite for Six Months? Luo Tianyi's Four-Pronged Treatment for 'Deficiency With Heat' in a 23-Year-Old Official
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseFever, Wasting, Night Sweats, and No Appetite for Six Months? Luo Tianyi's Four-Pronged Treatment for 'Deficiency With Heat' in a 23-Year-Old Official
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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)