Cirrhosis Medical Cases ⁽⁹⁾

The patient, a woman surnamed Yan, is the grandmother of a friend of mine, 95 years old, and a long-term resident of Pingxiang, Jiangxi. On June 30, 2026, she was admitted to a local Pingxiang hospital for edema of both lower limbs. Her diagnoses were:…

Professor Li Shimao (deceased) was a professor and doctoral supervisor at Hebei University of Chinese Medicine. With more than 50 years in medicine, he was rich in both teaching and clinical experience. Case records of some of the cirrhosis-with-ascites patients he treated are included in…

Li Congfu (1905-1990), a native of Huangmei County, Hubei Province, began studying TCM through apprenticeship at age 13 and opened his own practice in 1925. Old Doctor Li was engaged in medicine for more than 60 years and served as president of Hunan Provincial TCM…

Professor Li Zhenhua once served as director of the Internal Medicine Teaching and Research Office of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now Henan University of Chinese Medicine) and vice president of the Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of TCM. He had rich clinical and…

Professor Yin Huihe once treated a cirrhotic ascites patient surnamed Li, who first visited him on March 17, 1988. At the visit the patient's chief complaints were right hypochondriac pain and fatigue for more than ten years, abdominal distension for two years, worsened over the…

Professor Wan Wenmo (1923-2008) served as director of the TCM department at Wuhan Ninth Hospital. Over more than 50 years of clinical practice he attained deep TCM scholarship and rich experience; in his later years he specialized in difficult and complicated diseases, excelling in disorders…

Professor Lu Fang was a TCM professor at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. He formerly served as director of Harbin Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and as deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He was a national mentor of…

He Yanshen, born 1922, was a native of Dongguan, Guangdong. A self-taught chief TCM physician, he served after liberation as president of the Dongguan Chinese Medicine Hospital in Guangdong and specialized in treating critical conditions such as stroke, Japanese encephalitis, and renal failure. On May…

Professor Wang Xiru, former chief physician of internal medicine at the Chongqing Institute of TCM, once treated a patient with cirrhotic ascites. The patient, Gong, was a 53-year-old man whose abdominal distension had progressively enlarged over more than three months; examination confirmed decompensated cirrhotic ascites…