Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士) [The patient’s] pulse was thin and rapid. The thin [pulse] indicates visceral yin exhaustion and the rapid [pulse] indicates nutritive yin-fluid depletion. The previous summer and fall the patient was ill. Following this, there was a contraction of winter warmth leading to failure to store. In the spring when the earth’s qi started to ascend, there was Liver wood stirring wind, resulting in right-sided atrophy. The collaterals at the root of the tongue were…

Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士) [The patient] had blood loss for many years with chronic damage to the yin qi. There was a relapse due to worry, sadness, and melancholy, where yang linked with internal wind which led to a great uprushing to the head (da mao 大冒). The blood residence became empty and qi overwhelmed the left side of the body, producing a deviated mouth, numbness and tingling in the limbs, dark tongue, inability to speak, and foot…

Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi (叶天士) [The patient] had hemilateral withering on the left side of the body. [There was] blood deficiency not nourishing the sinews and bones, [leading to] internal wind assaulting the collaterals. The left pulse was moderate and large. Zhi Shou Wu (Polygoni Multiflori Radix Preparata) (baked) 4 liang Gou Qi Zi (Lycii Fructus) (stems removed) 2 liang Dang Gui Shen (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) (use that with a single stalk, remove the tips) 2 liang Huai Niu…