Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士)
Constraint damaging the Heart and Spleen nutritive aspect with internal heat
Ji was a 69-year-old elderly person whose emotions were unwell (felt down). When there is constraint then lesser fire transforms into vigorous fire. The appetite was intact but the gastric cavity was not smooth (?). The mouth and tongue were eroded and putrid.
Diagnosis: This was damage to the Heart and Spleen nutritive aspect with wood fire scorching and removing the essence by…

Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士)
The patient had anger with Liver constraint. [In addition,] thought and preoccupation had damaged the Spleen. There was a yellow complexion, choppy pulse, and (s)he was [often] awake with an inability to go to sleep. Ancestor Xue’s method of treatment was used.
rén shēn (Ginseng Radix)
huáng qí (Astragali Radix),
shú bái zhú (steamed?? Atractylodis macrocephalae Rhizoma)
fú shén (Poriae Sclerotium pararadicis)
dà zǎo (Jujubae Fructus)
lóng yǎn ròu (Longan Arillus)
dāng guī (Angelicae…

Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士)
Wu (40 years old) was exhausted and angry which led to damage. The disease was located in the Liver and Spleen. There was chronic brain leakage  and the bone marrow has been secretly damaged. The patient was to take [the below prescription] that resolves depression for a short time, and then continue with a diffusing and tonifying one.
gōu téng (Uncariae Ramulus cum Uncis)
shēng xiāng fù (unprepared cyperus)
mǔ dān pí (Moutan Cortex)…

Original case: Liu Du-Zhou
A 52 year old male came in for a diagnosis on July 18, 1994. He had diarrhea that had been going on for more than one year and had used many kinds of antibiotics with no avail. Every day he had diarrhea 3 to 6 times, and at the time of the intake it was a watery type with small amount of pus and blood. There was also tenesmus, abdominal tenderness, which was especially severe on…

Case By: Fei Sheng-Fu (费绳甫)
Mr Xu Zhongxiu from Zhenjiang [suffered] from swelling of the feet and legs as well as of the testicles, abdominal distension, coughing, facial edema, and reduced urination. He came to me for examination and treatment because treatment so far had not worked. His pulse was floating and wiry in the right cun position indicating water swelling. The Lungs were unable to afford regular passage through the water ways towards the Bladder so that water qi…

Case by: Jason Blalack
A 35 year-old female on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 presented with a chief complaint of cough and a hot tongue.
The previous day she had a runny nose and felt like she was getting a cold. She also reported that both of her kids had strep throat, which in the past she would get a couple times a year.
Currently she had a dull and achy sore throat. Her cough was mildly productive with congealed thick…

Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士)
Hu, 46 years of age, had been weeping due to grief. The disease arose from internally generated emotions, which led to constraint. There was a physical manifestation in the area below the heart  that was gradually getting larger with a hardness upon palpation.
Treatment principle: A bitter-acrid and downward-draining method was used. First must treat the qi clumping.
Diagnosis:  (Focal distention and clumping below the heart).
Coptidis Rhizoma (huáng lián)
Zingiberis Rhizoma (gān jiäng)…

Shang Han Case:
Yang, a two and five month-year-old girl, presented with the chief complaint of cough, that  had been going on for one month. There was sometimes white and sometimes yellow phlegm, nasal congestion, profuse sweating, fear of wind, reduced food intake, no thirst, and her bowels were not dry. She tried many Chinese and Western treatments without success. Her tongue body was normal and there was a white coat. Her pulse was deep and rapid.
Diagnosis: cough (wind…

Case by: Ding Gan-Ren (1865-1926)
Shang Han Case
There was external cold assaulting the tai yang with damp stagnation internally blocking the middle burner. This pattern presented with sweat and chills that failed to resolve the condition. There was also full body aching pain, stifling sensation in the chest, upflow nausea, and abdominal distention. It was suitable to disperse the pathogen, release the muscle layer, transform stagnation, and open the middle burner.
Prescription:
Cinnamomi Ramulus (guì zhï) 8 fen
Pinelliae…

Case by: Ding Gan-Ren (1865-1926)
Mr. Bai presented with a pathogen in the tai yang that had not yet resolved. There was a loss of normal order of the nutritive and protective aspects. There was physical cold, fear of cold, cough, stifling sensation in the chest, full body aching pain, reduced food intake, and a greasy tongue coat. It was proper to use a Cinnamon Twig Decoction (guì zhï täng) method.
Cinnamomi Ramulus (guì zhï) 8 fen
Fritillariae thunbergii Bulbus…