Flaccidity Syndrome ⁽²⁾

Niuxi Wan (Achyranthes Pill) comes from Li Dongyuan's Essentials of Practical Methods (Huofa Jiyao). Its composition is: Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, wine-soaked), Bixie (Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Rhizoma), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex, fried), Roucongrong (Cistanches Herba, wine-soaked), Tusizi (Cuscutae Semen), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Huluba (Trigonellae Semen, fried), Buguzhi…

During the May Day holiday in Beijing this year, I met a cancer patient who had consulted me ten years earlier for radiation enteritis. This patient had developed some relatively uncommon symptoms: her brain’s motor control over the lower limbs was intact, but her lower…