TCM Gynecology ⁽³⁸⁾

Professor Li Jiren is a modern-day patriarch of the Xin'an medicine school. He has treated many cancer patients and published many case records. Here I excerpt one breast-cancer case and add brief commentary. The patient, Zhang, female, 45, a worker, first visited on November 20,…

Guizhi Fuling Wan (Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill) comes from the twentieth chapter, "On the Pulse and Treatment of Pregnancy Diseases in Women," of Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet). It is a commonly used gynecological formula and may be applied…

Professor Qian Boxuan was a renowned TCM gynecologist who treated many difficult gynecological conditions in his lifetime. Dr. Qian Boxuan's Gynecological Case Records preserves four cases of uterine fibroids treated by Dr. Qian, from which one can glimpse his general approach. Case 1. Su had…

Vaginal bleeding in women outside the menstrual period is collectively called benglou in TCM—metrorrhagia and metrostaxis. There are many causes. Modern medicine holds that female genital inflammation, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, adenomyosis, and gynecological tumors may all cause benglou symptoms. In addition, some tumor patients develop…

Postpartum depression is a very common disease. Many women are tormented by it; some are affected for life, and severe cases even lead to suicide. Not long ago there was news of a woman who, suffering from postpartum depression, killed her child and then killed…

Si Wu Tang (Four-Substance Decoction) first appeared in the late-Tang book "Prescriptions for Treating Injuries and Restoring Bones Handed Down by an Immortal" by Lan Daoren. It was a famous formula of TCM orthopedics and traumatology, with the actions of activating blood and resolving stasis,…

Infertility may be primary or secondary. Primary infertility is hard to treat, while secondary infertility is relatively easier. Generally speaking, primary infertility mostly belongs to insufficiency of original yang and a constitutionally deficient endowment; in ancient TCM it was called "total childlessness" (quan wu zi).

My wife was thirty-four years old, pretty and plump, fond of meat. Looking at her reflection she sighed that her figure was not what it used to be and could not help envying slender ladies. Urged on by old university classmates, she secretly took diet…