High fever: Chinese Medicine Cases
25 related cases
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) Case
Coughing 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) CaseHigh Fever, Vomiting, Diarrhea and Leg Cramps? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Two-Decotion Rescue for a Febrile Illness Gone Wild
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw huai Chinese yam), Hua shi (talc)
📖 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 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 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 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CasePregnant Woman with High Fever and a Black, Thorny Tongue: Doctor Miao Xiyong's Bold Use of Raw Gypsum to Save Mother and Baby
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseVomited a Whole Basin of Blood at Dawn? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats Life-Threatening Hematemesis After a Night of Excess (Ginseng Decoction with Heixi Pills to Draw the Qi Back Down, Then Donkey-Hide Gelatin and Qiushi)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Heixi Dan (Black Tin Pills)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseFever and Delirium, Talking Nonsense Like Bewitched? Doctor Zhu Danxi Warms Yang to Cure the Sick Young Man of the Zheng Clan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 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) CaseFever That Kept Coming Back No Matter What — Until Eight Liang of Gypsum (and a Pear) Broke It: Doctor Zhang Xichun's Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) Plus Qing Lian Qiao for Typhoid Fever with Latent Heat
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever, Delirium, and Loss of Vision — What to Do? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Large Dose of Prepared Rehmannia Nourished the Yin and Rescued a Dying Man
Medicine: Shu huai di huang (prepared Huai rehmannia, 2 liang / 60 g), Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai Chinese yam, 1 liang / 30 g)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever, Clouded Eyes, and Rambling Speech? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Two-Dose Rehmannia Rescue of a Dying Farmer (Febrile Disease with Yin Deficiency)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia, 2 liang / 60 g), Huai shan yao (Huai yam, 1 liang / 30 g)
📖 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) CaseHigh Fever So Severe She Fell into a Coma and Wouldn't Wake Up? Doctor Zhang Xichun Brought Her Back with Shigao Jingmi Tang (Gypsum-Rice Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed at 4 liang (about 120+ g), Jing mi (rice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild with High Fever Who Vomits Every Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cooled His Seven-Year-Old Son's Fever with Raw Gypsum Alone
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), heavily dosed — up to 6 liang (about 180 g) in a single day for a seven-year-old, Duan shi gao (calcined gypsum) — for external use only (astringing and promoting tissue regeneration); never to be taken internally
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHemorrhoids for 30 Years and a Child's Eye That Swells Five or Six Times a Year? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Cases of Clearing Latent Heat with Raw Gypsum (Sheng Shigao)
Medicine: Sheng shigao (raw gypsum), Duan shigao (calcined gypsum — never for internal use, external use only)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHemorrhoids for 30 Years and a Child's Eye That Swells Five or Six Times a Year? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Cases of Clearing Latent Heat with Raw Gypsum (Sheng Shigao)
Medicine: Sheng shigao (raw gypsum), Duan shigao (calcined gypsum — never for internal use, external use only)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseMalaria with High Fever, Delirium, and Sweating Like Rain? Doctor Wang Mengying's Watermelon — the 'Heaven-Born White Tiger Decoction' — Brought Him Back
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Watermelon
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseHigh 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)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseChild's High Fever for Three Days That Won't Break, Lips Dry as a Silkworm Cocoon? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Ming Dynasty Case of Summer-Heat Illness in a Toddler — the Right Formula at the Wrong Time Is Not Enough
Medicine: Hua shi (talc), Gan cao (licorice)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever with No Sweat at All? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Gypsum and Rice Decoction (Shi Gao Jing Mi Tang) for Fever Caught in the Cold
Medicine: Sheng Shi Gao (raw gypsum), Jing Mi (japonica rice)
📖 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, 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)