Insomnia: Chinese Medicine Cases
16 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 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 Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseUnbearable Pain Under the Ribs Reaching to the Navel? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Diagnoses Shao Yang Pattern and Treats It With Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction) From the Treatise on Cold Damage — Pain Stopped After Three Doses
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Huang qin (baical skullcap 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 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseDry 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 Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseFrequent Night Urination and Cloudy, Milky Urine? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Treatment of Lower Xiaoke (Kidney Diabetes) with Guipi Tang and Dabuyuan Jian — 300-Plus Doses That Pulled a Dying Official Back from the Brink
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia)
📖 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) 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) 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan't Sleep All Night and Sleeping Pills Don't Work? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cures Insomnia by Strengthening the Spleen and Stomach
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huai Chinese yam — strengthens the spleen and stomach, the lead herb), Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite — heavy, sends the qi downward)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseGoing Crazy, Raving and Raging? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Mania and Psychosis (Schizophrenia) by Draining Phlegm-Heat
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (hematite), Chuan da huang (rhubarb)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan't Sleep, Heart Racing the Moment You Lie Down, Constant Sense of Doom? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Insomnia with Palpitations by Nourishing Yin, Soothing the Liver and Sending Stomach Qi Downward
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite), Sheng huai shan yao (raw Huaishan yam)
📖 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) CaseNocturnal Emission, Tinnitus, Dizziness and Chronic Fatigue? Doctor Wu Jutong's Kidney-Yin Deficiency Cases Cured with Zhuan Xi Da Sheng Gao (Great Birth Paste)
Medicine: Xi yang shen (American ginseng), Ren shen (ginseng)