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…

Phlegm obstructing the channels and collaterals mistaken for wind-cold-damp painful obstruction.
Wang, a 30 year old woman peasant, on Oct. 2, 1976 came into a hospital in Zhu Ma Dian for treatment. She presented with fatigue, achiness, and numbness / tingling in both her lower limbs. She was diagnosed with “rheumatism”.  As a result she was given Phenyl Butazone and antibiotics, which had no effect. Afterwards she received treatment in a TCM hospital in Wu Han for more than a…

Yīn and blood insufficiency mistakenly diagnosed as cold-damp painful obstruction pattern.
Liao was a 62 year old man who was hospitalized because of left buttock and left lower limb pain that had been going on for 3 months. He presented with left buttock and left posterior thigh muscular pain, fatigued spirit and lack of strength, poor food intake, bland / lack of taste in the mouth that was slightly dry, dry stools, facial color was dark and stagnant.
Tongue: pale…

Cold damp painful obstruction mistakenly diagnosed as damp-heat painful
obstruction.
Shi a 28 year old male motor vehicle driver was hospitalised on Sept 13. Two days
previous, the patient did some heavy moving from one house to the next in the rain. That
night he had very painful sciatica along his right leg. It gradually became worse and he
went to the local hospital where he received an injection of a heavy painkiller and
diazepam, which took about two hours.(1)…