Talking nonsense: Chinese Medicine Cases
18 related cases
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case
Cold Feet Always Mean a Cold Body? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Cures Cold Legs Below the Knees With Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) — True Heat Hiding Behind False Cold, Gone in Three Doses
Medicine: Shi gao (gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHigh Fever, Talking Nonsense, Grasping at the Air? Song Dynasty Formula Master Xu Shuwei Treats Typhoid Delirium and Carphologia With Xiao Cheng Qi Tang (Minor Purgative Decoction) — One Bowel Movement and the Patient Wakes Up
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb), Hou po (magnolia bark)
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) CaseHigh Fever With Thirst and Exhaustion? Song Dynasty Formula Master Doctor Xu Shuwei Uses Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang (White Tiger Plus Ginseng Decoction) to Clear Heat and Nourish Qi — Both Patients Fully Recovered
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena rhizome)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSudden Dizziness, Collapse and Profuse Sweating? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Heavy Use of Shan Yu Rou (Dogwood Fruit) to Anchor the Escaping Vital Qi in a Life-Threatening Emergency
Medicine: Shan yu rou (dogwood fruit / Cornus officinalis), Sheng long gu (raw fossil bone / dragon bone)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseA Fever That Won't Go Away for a Month, and a Cold Feeling in the Chest — Doctor Wang Mengying's Case of Phlegm-Heat Disguised as Cold
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 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) CaseMuscles Twitching, Heart Racing and Dizziness After Sweating Too Much? Doctor Xu Shuwei Treats Yang Injury from Mistaken Sweating with Zhenwu Tang
Medicine: Fu ling (poria), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseEight Years of Chronic Diarrhea, Then Sudden High Fever with Delirium and Eyes That Wouldn't Close: Doctor Miao Xiyong Saves the Acute Crisis First, Then Cures the Eight-Year Diarrhea
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseTalking Nonsense and Seeing Things That Aren't There? Doctor Zhu Danxi Fortified Upright Qi and Resolved Phlegm to Cure a Case That Looked Like 'Possession'
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseSeeming Possessed or Haunted? Doctor Zhu Danxi Saved One Patient with a Bowl of Salt Water and Watched Another Die — Phlegm Clouding the Heart Orifices
Medicine: Salt (salt-water emetic), Goose feather (to tickle the throat and help bring up the vomit)
📖 Doctor Zhu Danxi (朱丹溪) CaseDelirious and Utterly Weak After a Cold? Doctor Zhu Danxi Tonifies Qi First — Rescuing Two Patients Wrongly Sweated and Purged
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Huang qi (astragalus)
📖 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) 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) CaseAlways Hungry, Can't Stop Eating? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Cases of Ravenous Appetite Caused by Sinking of the Great Qi (Da Qi Xia Xian)
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Wang Mengying (王孟英) CaseMalaria with High Fever, Delirium, and Sweating Like Rain? Doctor Wang Mengying's Watermelon — the 'Heaven-Born White Tiger Decoction' — Brought Him Back
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Watermelon
📖 Doctor Wu Jutong (吴鞠通) CaseSeven Years of Raving Madness? Doctor Wu Jutong's Case of Mania Cured by Draining Heart-Gallbladder Fire with Gentian
Medicine: Long dan cao (gentian root), Huang lian (coptis root)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseNewlywed Boy Gets Smallpox, Rash Turns Blue, and He Talks Nonsense: Doctor Miao Xiyong Clears Residual Stomach Heat with Gypsum and Ginseng
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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)