TCM Internal Medicine ⁽³³⁾

Fatty liver disease is a common ailment of modern times. Mild fatty liver can usually be reversed by controlling diet and increasing exercise, but moderate or severe fatty liver requires medication. In clinical treatment of fatty liver, Professor Pei Yongqing created an empirical formula, Chaihu…

Sore throat is a very common clinical symptom. In the Shanghan Lun, the chapter "Differentiating and Treating the Pulse and Manifestations of Shaoyin Disease" contains several passages addressing sore throat, and later practitioners of throat disorders have long used their formulas. The original text of…

In ancient Chinese medicine, the transition between summer and autumn is called late summer (changxia), a season when diarrhea easily occurs. The Suwen's "Jin Gui Zhen Yan Lun, Chapter 4" states: "Thus in spring one is prone to nasal bleeding; in midsummer to chest and…

Kidney disease is a general term for a group of common diseases that seriously threaten human health. Common kidney diseases include urinary tract infections, glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, renal failure, renal cysts, kidney stones, and renal tumors. The kidney is a vital organ; when there is…

Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction is an empirical formula of Wang Qingren, a physician of the Qing dynasty. It was originally recorded in Wang Qingren's work Yilin Gaicuo (Correction of Errors Among Physicians). In Yilin Gaicuo, Wang Qingren used Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction for the treatment of many…

Danzhuru Decoction (Light Bamboo-shavings Decoction) first appeared in the Qianjin Fang (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold). It is a derivative of Gancao Xiaomai Dazao Tang (Licorice-Wheat-Jujube Decoction) from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolüe (Essentials from the Golden Cabinet), and was later further developed by Chen…

Spring is a season of lingering cold amid warming temperatures. After a long autumn and winter, the rainy season gradually arrives, and the air humidity rises day by day. This season sees many diseases of mixed cold and heat, and the humid air also triggers…

Chaihu (Bupleurum Root) and Huangqin (Scutellaria Root) are two very important herbs for harmonizing the Shaoyang. When used appropriately, they can treat many difficult and complicated diseases, with good effects on cancer, asthma, hepatitis B, pulmonary tuberculosis, uterine fibroids, and various chronic inflammations. The Chinese…

Many years ago, a patient with advanced liver cancer, after ineffective integrated Chinese-Western treatment at an authoritative Beijing hospital, returned to his hometown at his wits' end. He was unable to urinate or defecate, was extremely weak, and in great distress. His daughter, unable to…

In treating chronic spleen-stomach disease, the purgation method should be used with great caution. From the TCM perspective, patients with chronic gastric illness belong to spleen-stomach deficiency; from the Western-medicine perspective they are functional disorders. Neither is an excess pattern suited to purgation. If the…