Paralysis ⁽³⁾

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…

Fushou Yanchun Dan comes from the Pujifang (Prescriptions for Universal Relief). Its composition is: Renshen (Ginseng Radix, ginseng) and Baifuling (Poria, white poria) 2 liang each; Yuanzhi (Polygalae Radix, polygala, pith removed), Niuxi (Cyathulae Radix, achyranthes, soaked in wine), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex, eucommia, fried to…

"Fushou Yanchun Dan" comes from Puji Fang (Prescriptions for Universal Relief). It treats left or right paralysis, deviated mouth and eye, and hemiplegia—what in modern medicine we call stroke sequelae, the most common aftereffect of stroke (cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction). "Fushou Yanchun Dan" is…