Cirrhotic Ascites Empirical Formula ⁽²⁾

The late veteran TCM physician Professor Zhao Xinbo had his own set of mature experiential formulas for treating liver cirrhosis, excerpted below. Early-stage cirrhosis patients presenting with a dropping pain in the hypochondrium, a swollen and hard liver, bitter mouth, yellow urine, and a little…

Issue 5 (page 324) of the Anhui Journal of Clinical Traditional Chinese Medicine (1999) published an empirical formula for treating cirrhotic ascites. It has a certain efficacy: treating 52 patients, after 6–12 months of treatment, 14 were clinically cured, 37 improved, and 1 ineffective, for…