Poor appetite: Chinese Medicine Cases
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📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) Case
Heavy Bleeding and Waves of Body Heat That Won't Clear No Matter How Much You Cool? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Metrorrhagia Case — True Cold Hiding Behind False Heat (Gui Fu Di Huang Wan to Guide the Fire Home)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseHeavy Bleeding and Waves of Body Heat That Won't Clear No Matter How Much You Cool? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Metrorrhagia Case — True Cold Hiding Behind False Heat (Gui Fu Di Huang Wan to Guide the Fire Home)
Medicine: Shu di huang (prepared rehmannia), Rou gui (cinnamon bark)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseA Cold He Didn't Take Seriously Turned Into Consumptive Cough with Afternoon Fever a Year Later? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cleared the Latent Pathogenic Heat First, Then Nourished the Yin — Under Ten Doses Cured Him
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Dang shen (codonopsis)
📖 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) CaseAlways Feel Cold Inside and Your Left Side Feels Heavy? Doctor Zhang Xichun Cured Liver Yang Deficiency with Raw Astragalus (Huangqi) as the Leading Herb, Paired with Chaihu, Chuanxiong and Ganjiang
Medicine: Sheng huangqi (raw astragalus), Chaihu (bupleurum)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever Every Afternoon, Coughing Phlegm All Night, Growing Weaker Day by Day? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Zhu Yu Er Bao Porridge (Chinese Yam with Coix Seed) for a Young Man's Consumptive Cough
Medicine: Dried Chinese yam slices (gan shanyao pian, Dioscorea), Raw coix seed (sheng yimi / yiyiren, Coix lacryma-jobi)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseA Lump Growing in Her Belly, and Periods Only Every Three Months? Doctor Xue Lizhai's Year of Morning-and-Afternoon Medicine
Medicine: Chai hu (bupleurum), Zhi zi (gardenia)
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseCough Every Winter That Won't Go Away? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Latent Summer-Heat (Fushu) — Three Kernels Decoction: Clear Dampness First, Avoid 'Freezing' the Heat
Medicine: Apricot kernel (xing ren), White cardamom kernel (bai kou ren)
📖 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 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) 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) CaseAlways Angry and Spitting Up Acid? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured a Ten-Year Illness in Under a Month
Medicine: Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill), Liu Jun Zi Tang (Six Gentlemen Decoction)
📖 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) 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) 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) CaseUrinating Less with Dark Red Urine? Doctor Xue Lizhai Cured It by Rebuilding the Spleen and Lungs to Generate Kidney Water (Buzhong Yiqi Tang + Liuwei Dihuang Wan)
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseDiarrhea Every Time You Worry, and It Still Hurts Afterward? Doctor Zhu Danxi: Worry Harms the Spleen — Tonify the Spleen and Nourish the Blood (Cured in Two Days)
Medicine: Renshen (ginseng), Baizhu (white atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseCan't See Clearly in the Morning? Doctor Zhu Danxi Treats Dampness Clouding the Clear Orifices
Medicine: Bai zhu (Atractylodes), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 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) CaseMissed Periods for Three Months and a Pulse You Can't Even Feel? Doctor Zhu Danxi Shows It Was Phlegm-Heat Blocking the Channels — Not Deficiency — and Treats It with the Purgative Sanhua Shenyou Wan
Medicine: Gan sui (Gansui root), Da ji (Peking spurge root)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseElderly Man with Nonstop Phlegm, Dizziness and Weakness? Doctor Zhu Danxi Diagnoses a Great Deficiency (Da Xu Zheng), Rebuilds Vital Qi with Large Tonics, and Clears Phlegm-Heat Gently with Lian Bai Wan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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 Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseVomiting Nonstop After Pregnancy, Spinning Head, Everything Comes Back Up? Doctor Zhu Danxi's Huanglian Pill for Morning Sickness
Medicine: Huang lian (coptis), Fu ling (poria)
📖 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) 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Food Retention Leading to Malnutrition (Big Belly, Sallow Face, Dry Hair): Doctor Zhang Xichun's Record of Friend Mao Xiange Curing Infantile Ganji with Ji Nei Jin Pancakes
Medicine: Ji nei jin (chicken gizzard lining), Wheat flour
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseChild Food Retention Leading to Malnutrition (Big Belly, Sallow Face, Dry Hair): Doctor Zhang Xichun's Record of Friend Mao Xiange Curing Infantile Ganji with Ji Nei Jin Pancakes
Medicine: Ji nei jin (chicken gizzard lining), Wheat flour
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseBurning Heat and Night Coughing You Can't Sleep Through? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of a Student with Labor-Heat Cough
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (dried Chinese yam), Da gan gou qi (sweet large wolfberry)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CasePeriods Stopped for Months, With Dry Cough and Chest Tightness? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Amenorrhea Treated with Liquan Yin (Sweet Spring Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (dried Chinese yam), Sheng zhe shi (raw hematite)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseCoughing, Wasting, and Stopped Periods? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Zisheng Tang (Nourishing Life Decoction) for Tuberculosis (Consumption) and Amenorrhea
Medicine: Sheng shan yao (dried Chinese yam, huai yam), Xuan shen (figwort root)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHeadache So Bad You Can't Get Out of Bed or Sleep at Night? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Qinggan Zhenni Fang (Clear the Liver and Suppress the Reversal Formula) for Headache from Liver Fire Rising
Medicine: Sheng hang shao (raw white peony), Bai zi ren (arborvitae seed)
📖 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)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseCan't Eat, Bloated Belly, Constant Diarrhea? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Qin Gong'an — Ginseng Cured Him the First Time, the Same Ginseng Nearly Killed Him Three Years Later (Spleen Qi Deficiency vs Spleen Yin Deficiency)
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHard Lumps in the Belly for Over 20 Years? Doctor Zhang Xichun Dissolved Stubborn Old Abdominal Masses with Li Chong Tang
Medicine: Sheng jineijin (raw chicken gizzard lining), Sanleng (common burreed rhizome)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseLeg Pain So Bad She Couldn't Walk — Then Her Back and Shoulders Ached Too? Doctor Zhang Xichun Tonified the Spleen with Bai Zhu (Atractylodes) and Cured It in About Ten Days
Medicine: Bai Zhu (atractylodes), Dang Gui (Chinese angelica)
📖 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) CaseDiarrhea at Night, Ice-Cold Hands and Feet, Blue Lips? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Spleen-Stomach Deficiency Cold Case (Huangqi Jianzhong Tang / Astragalus Middle-Fortifying Decoction)
Medicine: Huangqi (astragalus, 黄芪), Shaoyao / baishao (white peony root, 芍药/白芍)
📖 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)