Hiccup ⁽²⁾

The Chinese Materia Medica Dictionary (Zhongyao Da Cidian) records an empirical formula for diaphragmatic spasm (hiccups). Its composition is: Cimicifugae Rhizoma (shengma), Bupleuri Radix (chaihu), and Aurantii Fructus (zhike), equal parts, ground together into a fine powder. Take 4 g each time, washed down with…

Patient Ms. Zhong, female, born in Guangzhou in 1955, now residing in New York, USA, is a lung cancer patient. Post-lung-cancer surgery, she is taking the targeted drug Tagrisso (osimertinib). She has had renal insufficiency since surgery, with elevated serum creatinine. The renal insufficiency caused…