Medical Case ⁽¹⁶³⁾

A few days ago, while picking vegetables in my small garden, I was wearing athletic shorts and was accidentally bitten by a venomous insect hiding in the grass. At first I thought nothing of it, assuming that applying something like essential balm would do. But…

After summer began, He, a lymphoma patient I had long treated, developed difficult urination and edema of the lower abdomen and lower limbs. The patient went to the hospital for liver and kidney function tests and a tumor-marker panel of five, and all values were…

A gallbladder-cancer patient I treated also suffered from endometriosis and uterine adenomyosis, with perennial vaginal bleeding. She had received both Chinese and Western medical treatment for years with little effect. I also tried various internal formulas on this patient, but none worked well. The patient…

I previously introduced my experience treating a breast-cancer patient in Tianjin with lung and bone metastases (for details, see the article Experience Treating a Patient with Breast Cancer and Lung and Bone Metastases Using Modified Maxing Shigan Tang Combined with Wuling San). In that article…

The patient, a woman surnamed Liu, born in 1980, originally from Shandong and now living in Nanjing, was referred to me by another patient whom I had treated for rhinitis. She reported that she had had rhinitis since high school, over ten years earlier; she…

Mr. Wang, a 67-year-old farmer from Shanxi province, was a patient with early gastric cancer. On May 28, 2021, the patient’s daughter first sought my help via video, telling me that her father had suffered from painful swallowing and fatigue for more than three months.

The patient, a woman surnamed Sun, was 41 years old, a permanent resident of Tianjin working in international trade, with no history of exposure to pollutants or radioactive substances. She had advanced breast cancer with lung and bone metastases. In 2010 she was treated for…

The patient, Qi, male, 50, a forest ranger in Huanan County, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang. Gastric cancer diagnosed April 2018; before diagnosis 174 cm, 80 kg, normal BP and glucose. First online consult May 26, 2020, weighing 61 kg, normal BP and glucose. Diagnosed with gastric cancer…

Zhou, female, 73, mother of Dr. Liu, a chief physician at a Grade-A tertiary hospital in Yueyang, Hunan. On December 18, 2020, Dr. Liu for the first time invited me to a video consultation for his mother. The patient had advanced schistosomiasis, liver cirrhosis with…

Can-Zhe Pei-Qi Tang (Ginseng-Ochre Qi-Supplementing Decoction) is an empirical formula of Zhang Xichun from the late Qing and early Republican period. The original formula: Lu Dangshen (Codonopsis) six qian, Tiandong (Asparagus) four qian, raw Zheshi (Hematitum) eight qian (ground fine), clear Banxia (Pinellia) three qian,…