Skin and bones: Chinese Medicine Cases
2 related cases
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) Case
Missed 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 Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseTen Years Unable to Eat, Seizures at Any Sound? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Liver Constraint (Gan Zhao) and Collateral Disease Treated with Xuanfu Flower Decoction
Medicine: Xuan fu hua (inula flower), Xin jiang (newly dyed silk, the much-debated ingredient)