Loss of appetite: Chinese Medicine Cases
39 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCan't Speak, Voice Gone, Throat Tight and Ulcerated? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Loss of Voice from Sunken Chest Qi — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBreathing Difficulty, Can't Catch Your Breath, Worse When Lying Down? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Sunken Chest Qi (Da Qi Xia Xian) — Shengxian Tang (Ascending the Sunken Qi Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHalf a Year of Diarrhea and Growing Weaker Every Day? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Fu Zhong Tang (Support the Middle Decoction) Rebuilt Her Spleen with Three Herbs
Medicine: Huai shan yao (raw Chinese yam), Bai zhu (atractylodes, Yuqian-grown, stir-fried)
📖 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 Jingyue (张景岳) CaseSores All Over the Throat That Hurt More With Every Cooling Treatment? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Throat Lichen (Hou Xuan) — Stopped Clearing Fire, Replenished Kidney Essence Instead, and the Patient Was Well Within Half a Year
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Dang gui (Chinese angelica root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseBloated Belly and Unable to Eat for Over Twenty Days? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Case of Severe Abdominal Distension — Shenxiang San (Divine Fragrance Powder: Clove & Cardamom) With Moxibustion Resolves It in Three Days
Medicine: Ding xiang (clove), Bai dou kou (white cardamom)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Lump in a Woman's Belly Kept Her in Bed? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Li Chong Tang (Regulating the Chong Vessel Decoction) for Abdominal Mass
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseMouth Ulcers, Hoarse Voice and Red Eyes? — Doctor Xu Shuwei, the Song Dynasty Formula Master, Treats Huhuo Disease (Behcet's Syndrome) with Gancao Xiexin Tang (Licorice Heart-Draining Decoction), Resolved in Days
Medicine: Raw gan cao (licorice), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 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) CaseNo Appetite and a Stuffed Feeling in the Stomach? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Cases of Deficiency-Cold Fullness (Pi Man) Cured by Warming and Supplementing — Not Digestion Aids
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseNo Appetite and a Stuffed Feeling in the Stomach? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Cases of Deficiency-Cold Fullness (Pi Man) Cured by Warming and Supplementing — Not Digestion Aids
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) CaseVomiting Blood and Bloody Stool When You're Too Exhausted to Go On? Doctor Zhang Jingyue Saves a Dying Scholar by Warming Yang
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Shu di (prepared rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseBloody Stool, Chronic Diarrhea and Bloating That Got Worse With Every Cooling Herb? Doctor Xue Lizhai Saw Through 'False Heat, True Cold' — Ten Days of Warming the Spleen and Kidney Stopped the Bleeding
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseCan't Eat, Just Drinking Tea and Eating Fruit All Day — Even Your Period Has Become Light and Late? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen Deficiency with Guipi Tang (Spleen-Returning Decoction) and Liujunzi Tang (Six Gentlemen Decoction) plus Wu Zhu Yu
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseCoughing with Phlegm? Before You Reach for a Phlegm-Resolving Formula, Ask This One Question — Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats a Spleen-Lung Deficiency Cough with Liujunzi Tang and Bawei Wan
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseAlways Angry and Suppressing It, with an Abdominal Lump and Irregular Periods: Doctor Xue Lizhai's Two Gynecological Mass Cases (Buzhong Yiqi Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan Nourishing Liver Yin — Same Disease, One Cured and One Lost, All Because of Emotion)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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) CaseHeadache So Bad He Started Saying Goodbye to His Family? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Four-Herb Formula — and the Brother Who Nearly Ruined It with Astragalus
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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseKnee Swollen as Big as a Bowl? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Er Miao Wan (Two Marvel Pill) Treats Damp-Heat Pouring Downward (Shi Re Xia Zhu) with Gentle, Stage-by-Stage Tuning
Medicine: Ban xia (pinellia), Huang bai (phellodendron)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Top Student Cracking Under School Pressure? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Mania (Deficiency Pattern) by Settling Reversed Qi, Calming the Spirit and Nourishing the Essence
Medicine: Sheng zhe shi (hematite), Ling ci shi (magnetite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseEars Ringing Like You're Going Deaf, No Appetite, Stomach Bloated? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Li Yin Tang for Heart-Lung Yang Deficiency
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseVomiting Blood and Bloating After Every Meal? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Wen Jiang Tang (Warming and Descending Decoction) for Spleen-Stomach Deficiency Cold
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseNeck Tendons Contracting, Stiff Back, Head Pulled Back? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan for Tendon Spasm (Zong Jin Contracture)
Medicine: Ru xiang (frankincense), Mo yao (myrrh)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseThe Bleeding Stopped, but His Chest Stayed Hot and Painful with No Appetite? Doctor Zhang Xichun Used Sanqi (Notoginseng) to Dissolve Stagnant Blood — Stopping Bleeding Without Leaving Stasis Behind
Medicine: San qi (notoginseng), San qi powder (notoginseng powder)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBloated, No Appetite, Constipated After Getting Angry or Upset? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Shengjiang Tang (Rising and Falling Decoction) for Liver Depression with Spleen Weakness
Medicine: Raw ji nei jin (chicken gizzard lining), Ye tai shen (dang shen / codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseShort of Breath, Limp Limbs, Panting After Any Exercise? Doctor Zhang Xichun's 'Lift the Sunken Qi' Formula (Sheng Xian Tang)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseChild Food Stagnation: Hot Palms, Thick Tongue Coating, Vomiting and Bad Breath — How Doctor Wu Jutong Cleared the Blocked Spleen-Stomach
Medicine: Huo xiang geng (patchouli stem / Agastache), Bai kou ren (white cardamom kernel / Amomum cardamomum)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseMissed Periods at 19, Rib Pain So Bad She Couldn't Eat? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Amenorrhea from Liver Constraint and Blood Stasis, Treated with Xuanfu Flower Decoction and Huazheng Huisheng Pills
Medicine: Xin jiang (newly dyed silk), Xuan fu hua (inula flower)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseDozens of Belches After a Few Bites of Food: Doctor Miao Xiyong Rebuilds Vital Qi with Shengmai Decoction and Cures His Stubborn Son-in-Law in Half a Year
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Mai men dong (dwarf lilyturf root)
📖 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 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) CaseA Hard Lump in the Stomach for Years, Can't Eat? Doctor Zhang Xichun Dissolved the Mass with Chicken Gizzard Lining (Jineijin) and Fermented Rice Wine Starter
Medicine: Sheng jineijin (raw chicken gizzard lining), Sheng jiuqu (raw fermented rice wine starter)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHard Lump Under the Left Ribs That Hurts? Doctor Zhang Xichun Dissolved the Mass with Just Two Herbs
Medicine: Sheng jineijin (raw chicken gizzard lining), Chaihu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Li Dongyuan (李东垣) CaseHeavy Uterine Bleeding, Bloody Diarrhea, and a Body That Wouldn't Stop Leaking? Doctor Li Dongyuan's 'Benefit the Stomach, Lift the Yang' Formula
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseStomach Pain So Bad He Couldn't Sit Up? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Fuyang Zhuwei Tang (Yang-Supporting Stomach-Helping Decoction)
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Hei fu zi (black aconite)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseChild Suddenly Twitching, Talking Nonsense, and Unable to Speak? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Convulsions After Forced Sweating — Renshen Yiqi Tang (Ginseng Qi-Boosting Decoction)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)