No appetite: Chinese Medicine Cases
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📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case
Breathing 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 Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseDizzy the Moment You Close Your Eyes, Spirit Floating, Too Tired to Talk? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Deficiency with Zhusha Anshen Wan and Buzhong Yiqi Tang
Medicine: Zhu sha (cinnabar), Huang lian (coptis)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseMissed Periods, Skin and Bone, Bedridden — Doctor Zhang Xichun's Zisheng Tang (Nourishing Life Decoction) for Consumption-Related Amenorrhea
Medicine: Raw dried Chinese yam slices (sheng shanyao / gan shanyao pian, Dioscorea opposita), Xuan shen (figwort root, Scrophularia ningpoensis)
📖 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 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseFlogging Wound Won't Ulcerate and the Pus Is Thin? Doctor Xue Lizhai Restored Qi and Blood (Plus Child's Urine as First Aid for Trauma)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseCan't Eat More Than One Small Bowl, with Acid Reflux and Rotten-Smelling Belching? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen Deficiency Turning into Cold in the Middle (Liujunzi Tang plus Paojiang, Muxiang and Sharen)
Medicine: Pao jiang (blast-fried ginger), Mu xiang (costus root)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseHow Severe Can Kidney Yang Damage Be? Yang Deficiency, Always Cold, Needing Ginger with Every Bowl of Congee? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Three Mistreated Yang Deficiency Cases (Bawei Wan / Guifu Dihuang Wan)
Medicine: Fu zi (aconite), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 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) CaseConstipated and Can't Poop? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Deficient Constipation by Rebuilding Qi and Blood (Modified Gui Pi Tang and Ba Zhen Tang)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseBloated Belly That Isn't Really 'Blocked': Ming Imperial Physician Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured Yang-Deficiency Abdominal Distension with Jinkui Shenqi Wan — Well in Under a Month
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Shan zhu yu (cornus fruit)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseThree Months Without a Period and a Four-Cun Lump in the Belly? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Liver-Spleen Stagnation Case (Awei Plaster Plus Buzhong Yiqi by Day, Guipi by Night — Fully Recovered After a Year)
Medicine: A wei (asafoetida resin), Qiang huo (notopterygium)
📖 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 Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseBreast Lump Like a Goose Egg, Red and Painful? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Mastitis After Anger by Strengthening the Spleen and Calming the Liver (Eight-Ingredient Decoction, Cured in Fourteen Doses)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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) CaseDiarrhea with Dull Abdominal Pain, Worse at Night, and Total Insomnia? Doctor Zhu Danxi: It's Blood Deficiency — Si Wu Tang with Extra Baizhu and Chenpi (Cured in About a Dozen Doses)
Medicine: Shudi (prepared rehmannia), Baishao (white peony)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseFace Swollen and Appetite Gone After an Angry Late-Night Feast? Doctor Zhu Danxi on Facial Swelling from Rage and Overeating
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes macrocephala)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBreathing Stops While Asleep? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Modified Shengxian Decoction (Lift the Sinking) for Sinking of Great Qi That Causes Sleep Apnea
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Chai hu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseAlways Feel Like You Have a Cold That Won't Go Away? Doctor Gong Tingxian's Treatment of Deficiency Fever Mistaken for Wind-Cold (Buzhong Yiqi Tang plus Yuanzhi, Suanzaoren, Zhuru and Maimendong — Cured in Two Doses)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 Doctor Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤) CaseBelly Swollen Like a Spider and Gasping for Air? Imperial Physician Gong Tingxian Saved the Princess of Lu with 'Treating Blockage by Filling' (Buzhong Yiqi Tang with Liuwei Dihuang Wan, Six to Seven Jin of Ginseng Before Full Recovery)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 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) 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) 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBlood in the Stool After a Bowel Movement? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Baitouweng Tang (Pulsatilla Decoction) Variation for Liver Fire Stirring Blood with Heart-Spleen Deficiency
Medicine: Sheng huai di huang (raw rehmannia), Bai tou weng (pulsatilla)
📖 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 Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseVomiting Clear Water All Day? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Fluid Retention (Yin Syndrome) — One Dose Stopped the Vomiting, Two Doses Cured
Medicine: Jiang ban xia (ginger-processed pinellia), Guang chen pi (aged tangerine peel)
📖 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 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) CaseToo Exhausted to Get Out of Bed, Diarrhea That Won't Stop, No Appetite? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Shengyang Tiaozhong Tang (Yang-Raising Middle-Regulating Decoction)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseFace Turning Black Around the Mouth? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Sheng Yang Shun Qi Tang (Yang-Raising Qi-Smoothing Decoction) for Melasma and a Dull Complexion
Medicine: Sheng ma (bugbane rhizome), Ge gen (kudzu root)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseHeadache That Nothing Could Fix? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Shunqi Hezhong Tang (Decoction to Harmonize the Middle and Smooth the Qi) for Qi-Deficiency Headache
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus root), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFeeling Low, Drained, and Cold All Over? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Wen Zhong Yi Qi Tang (Warming the Middle and Replenishing Qi Decoction) Case for Middle Qi Deficiency
Medicine: Fuzi (prepared aconite root), Ganjiang (dried ginger)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFace Red and Swollen, Legs Ice Cold? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Upper-Heat-Lower-Cold Case (Pu Ji Xiao Du Yin Zi / Universal Relief Toxin-Removing Decoction)
Medicine: Wine-fried huangqin (baical skullcap root), Wine-fried huanglian (coptis rhizome)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseMorning Diarrhea with Gurgling and Belly Pain? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Cold Attack Treated with Fuzi Wenzhong Tang — Using Hot Herbs in Summer
Medicine: Gan jiang (dried ginger), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益) CaseSwollen Finger Joints, Sore Knees, and a Heavy Body? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Case of Dampness Flowing into the Limbs — Da Qianghuo Tang (Major Notopterygium Decoction)
Medicine: Qiang huo (notopterygium), Du huo (angelica pubescens)
📖 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)