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…

Tai yin deficiency cold pattern with heat signs
Xu Shu-Wei’s Case
In the beginning, Mr. Cao had cold-damage that lasted for 6-7 days. There was abdominal fullness with vomiting, inability to get food down, a warm body, hot extremities, spontaneous diarrhea, pain in the abdomen, retching, and nausea. The first doctor said there was too much yang, because of the hot extremities. He feared there was an amassment of heat in the stomach leading to vomiting or because there was…