Yang Shiying ⁽²⁾

Chinese medicine has a condition called “phlegm-flow arm pain” (tan zhu bi tong), whose typical symptoms are persistent aching and heaviness of the arm, limited shoulder movement, possibly with swelling, numbness, or abnormal local temperature. The arm pain is usually aching or dull, fixed in…

In the Southern Song physician Yang Shiying's Renzai Zhifang Lun (Discriminating Treatments for Benevolent Companions), there is a formula called "Piji Wan" (Spleen Accumulation Pills). Its composition is as follows: Peng'ezhu (Rhizoma Curcumae, i.e., Ezhu) 3 liang (90 g), Jing Sanleng (Rhizoma Sparganii, i.e., Sanleng)…