Case from Fei Sheng-Fu (费绳甫）
Mr. Wu from northern Jiangsu [suffered] from Liver wood encroaching the Spleen until only it’s [qi] was present in the abdomen  致成單腹. The abdomen was distended like a drum, the umbilicus protruded outward, the tendons were blue. The back was normal but the waist full. This constituted a dangerous pattern. In this situation [the appropriate strategy] is to curb wood and support earth, unblock with warming [medicinals], and leach out dampness. Prescription was:

Aconiti Radix…

Original case by: Fei Bo-Xiong (费伯雄)
[1st Visit]: Qi deficiency with fullness of the middle [burner]. The abdomen is distended and resistant to palpation. Both flanks are acutely painful, with focal distension and a stifling sensation in the chest and diaphragm. On getting up [in the morning] the patient feels well, but in the afternoon the stifling feeling becomes worse and the mood depressive. The stools are loose. The pulse is deep and wiry on the right, and wiry and…

Case by: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士)
Yu, 55 years old, suffered from constraint that harmed the Heart yang. The yang sunk into the yin leading to a  turbid painful urinary dribbling disorder. This was internal damage from the emotions leading to a  yin [area?] deficiency resulting in disease. Merely seeing the symptoms will bring about a disordered (incorrect) treatment and is most inferior.
The Heart stores the Spirit. The spirit was damaged with symptoms such as muddle-headedness; all the orifices were disturbed. The herb treatment…

Original Case: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士）
Shen was 43 years old with a deficient and choppy pulse. The emotions had become unsmooth and the Liver and Spleen qi and blood were excessively constrained. This had persisted without relief for half a year. Giving a drastic formula was difficult [not appropriate]. Therefore giving the official prescription, Rambling Powder (xiäo yáo sân) with Tonify the Middle to Augment the Qi Decoction (bû zhöng yì qì täng) was decided upon.
Original Chinese: 沈（四三） 脉虚涩。情怀失畅。肝脾气血多郁。半载不愈。难任峻剂。议以局方逍遥散。兼服补中益气。…

Original case by: Fei Bo-Xiong (费伯雄)
When the Spleen is deficient and dampness wins out [over physiological transformation], the momentum [of the disorder] is towards Wood seizing the position of earth. Employing [a strategy] of relaxing the movement [of the qi dynamic] while separately eliminating [the various pathogenic qi] yielded results [quickly] after [the prescriptions] was taken. However, dampness is still soaking Spleen yang disabling movement and transformation. [Therefore, I once again] employ the previous strategy in order to promote…

Original case by:  Ye Tian-Shi
The case of Tang: Right, posterior rib pain radiating to the low back and hip producing aversion to cold and icy-cold extremities. [The patient was so cold that] it took a long time to get the patient warm. This was a lack of movement of qi and blood within the vessels and networks, culminating in congealed cold producing pain that was an obstruction pattern of the vessels and networks and is understood in the context…

Original case by: Fei Bo-Xiong (费伯雄)
Wood seizes the position of earth, hence only the abdomen is distended. [The appropriate strategy] is to curtail wood and support earth.
calcined Arcae Concha (wâ léng zî)
Corydalis Rhizoma (yán hú suô)
Benincasae Exocarpium (döng guä pí)
Benincasae Semen (döng guä zî)
Magnoliae officinalis Cortex (hòu pò)
Paeoniae Radix alba (bái sháo)
Codonopsis Radix (dâng shën)
Poriae Cutis (fú líng pí)
Atractylodis macrocephalae Rhizoma (bái zhú)
Aurantii Fructus immaturus (zhî shí)
Gigeriae galli…

Orignal Case by: Ye Tian-Shi
The ren vessel and du vessel divide and travel to the anterior and posterior aspects of the body. The spontaneous appearance of a steaming fever and spontaneous [seminal] emissions without dreams indicate that all of these extraordinary channels are deficient. Acrid, moistening herbs are quite effective. Administration of Six-Ingredient Pill [with Rehmannia] (liu wei di huang wan) with the addition of Schizandrae Fructus (wu wei zi) was inappropriate.
The medicinals in this prescription would simply…

Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi
A woman was postpartum for over 10 years. When her disease broke out there was a droopy head, painful spine, sagging vertebral qi, heart pain[1], and a cold sweat. This was a du and ren vessel qi disharmony and loss of use of the qiao and wei vessel, and the five yin fluids were completely dried up. In this type of situation plant-based medicinals are ineffective, being unable to treat the exhausted essence and blood.…

By: Ye Tian-Shi (Case #3)
Zhou was a 17-year-old unmarried girl with menstrual irregularities. Her menses were sometimes early and sometimes late. Prior to her menses she had abdominal pain that was worse than normal, and her intake of food and drink was greatly reduced. This problem started at the beginning of summer, and going into autumn her lower burner was often cold. There were abdominal sounds, and alternating diarrhea and constipation. The examination revealed that she easily had depressed…