Thirst: Chinese Medicine Cases
20 related cases
📖 Doctor Xu Shuwei (许叔微) Case
Can't Sleep at Night with a Restless Heart and a Heavy Head? Doctor Xu Shuwei's Two-Step Cure for Insomnia After Mistaken Sweating — First Zhuling Tang (Polyporus Decoction), Then a Decoction to Restore Fluids
Medicine: Zhu ling (polyporus), Fu ling (poria)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseFever, Thirst and Foaming at the Mouth for Over Twenty Days That No Doctor Could Fix? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Ming Dynasty Epidemic Fever Case — One Dose of Dan Dou Chi, Sheng Shi Gao, Zhi Mu and Mai Men Dong Sweats the Pathogen Out
Medicine: Dan dou chi (fermented soybean), Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum)
📖 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 Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseFever Got Worse After Taking Medicine? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treats Wind-Warmth with Latent Heat — a Bowl of Gypsum Rice-Gruel Decoction Cures a General
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Jing mi (northeastern rice)
📖 Doctor Yu Jiayan (喻嘉言) CaseDiarrhea for Three Years and a Belly That Keeps Swelling? Doctor Yu Jiayan Treats a Critical Case of Long-Term Diarrhea Draining Yin (Ejiao, Rehmannia and Ophiopogon Honey Paste, Cured in Half a Month)
Medicine: E jiao (donkey-hide gelatin), Sheng di huang (raw Rehmannia root)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CasePregnant Woman with High Fever and a Black, Thorny Tongue: Doctor Miao Xiyong's Bold Use of Raw Gypsum to Save Mother and Baby
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseDiarrhea with Pus and Blood, Worse with Cold, Loose Stools at Dawn? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Kidney Yang Deficiency with Si Shen Wan (Four Spirits Pill) — One Dose Brings Immediate Relief, Two Doses Complete Cure
Medicine: Bu gu zhi (psoralea), Rou dou kou (nutmeg)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseFeeling Fat, Cold, Dizzy and Phlegmy — Is It Real Obesity or Deficiency Obesity? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Kidney Deficiency with Buzhong Yiqi Tang and Jinkui Shenqi Wan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 Doctor Xue Lizhai (薛立斋) CaseFeeling Fat, Cold, Dizzy and Phlegmy — Is It Real Obesity or Deficiency Obesity? Doctor Xue Lizhai Treats Spleen-Kidney Deficiency with Buzhong Yiqi Tang and Jinkui Shenqi Wan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Ren shen (ginseng)
📖 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) CaseFever and Delirium, Talking Nonsense Like Bewitched? Doctor Zhu Danxi Warms Yang to Cure the Sick Young Man of the Zheng Clan
Medicine: Huang qi (astragalus), Fu zi (aconite)
📖 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) CaseHiccups That Won't Stop After Diarrhea? Doctor Zhu Danxi Nourished the Spleen and Cleared Damp-Heat — and Refused Aconite and Ginger
Medicine: Ren shen (ginseng), Bai zhu (atractylodes)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseSomething Growing Over Your Eye and Blocking Your Vision? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Case of Pterygium (Nu Rou Pan Jing) Treated with a Single Herb: Raw Gypsum Powder
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (raw gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena root)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseHigh Fever That Would Not Break for Over 40 Days? Doctor Zhang Xichun Treated Febrile Disease with Yin Deficiency and Internal Heat Using Ziyin Qingzao Tang (Nourish Yin and Clear Dryness Decoction)
Medicine: Sheng huai shan yao (raw Chinese yam), Sheng huai di huang (raw Rehmannia)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseMissed Periods, Chills and Fever, Pain Under the Ribs? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Liyu Shengxian Tang for Sinking Qi with Stagnation (Three Cases)
Medicine: Sheng huang qi (raw astragalus), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseShivering, Chills Then Fever at Regular Times (Malaria)? Doctor Miao Xiyong Stops It Overnight — Three Formulas, Five Doses in One Day and Night: Large-Dose Zhuye Shigao Tang (Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction) with Guizhi to Clear Heat, Spleen-Strengthening Digestives, Then Ren Shen and Sheng Jiang Pi (Ginger Peel) at the Fifth Watch
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (gypsum), Zhu ye (bamboo leaf)
📖 Doctor Miao Xiyong (缪希雍) CaseHigh Fever, Cough with Vomiting, and Sleeplessness? Doctor Miao Xiyong's Case of Yangming Heat with Qi-Yin Injury — One Dose of Zhu Ye Shi Gao Tang (Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction), Cured by Breakfast
Medicine: Sheng shi gao (gypsum), Zhi mu (anemarrhena)
📖 Doctor Zhang Xichun (张锡纯) CaseLoose Stools for Half a Year That Wouldn't Form? Doctor Zhang Xichun's Little Cakes of Raw Bai Zhu and Jujube Paste for Spleen-Deficiency Diarrhea
Medicine: Raw bai zhu (atractylodes), Da zao / cooked jujube flesh (red dates)
📖 Doctor Luo Tianyi (罗天益, c. 1220–1290) CaseFever for Nine Days, No Bowel Movement, Restless and Craving Ice Water? Doctor Luo Tianyi's Cold-Heat Differentiation of Exogenous Yangming Fu-Excess (Tiaowei Chengqi Tang / Stomach-Regulating Qi-Coordinating Decoction)
Medicine: Da huang (rhubarb, 大黄), Mang xiao (mirabilite / sodium sulfate, 芒硝)