This is the 3rd case in a series about Xu Shu-Wei.
3. Twitching of tendons and muscles:
Original case from: Xu Shu-Wei’s Case number 17
A townsperson named Jing made a living in the country village by twisting fibres into rope (”sheng”), and so was known as Jing Sheng Zi — “Roper Jing”.
Her son was almost thirty years old when he became ill, showing a slight sweat, weak pulse, and aversion to wind. The doctor mistakenly gave him Ma…

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…

By: Steven Clavey
(Thanks Steve for this case and the one’s that follow. Please check out his journal, The Lantern)
Insomnia: Case number 12, by Xu Shu-Wei
A local notable named Chen, when he first became sick, had fever, floating pulse and spontaneous perspiration. The doctor used Ma Huang Tang to cause sweating, but the fever became severe, Chen could not get to sleep, his head was heavy, there were palpitations and he complained of a restless cooped-up feeling. The…

Translated by: Steven Clavey
Needling Yang Ming channel to relieve shang han fever, Xu Shu-Wei’s Case (number 55)
One year in the month of May, a Mr. Li was ill with shang han (injury by cold), having fever, headache, no sweat and generalised aching all over the body. The pulse was floating, big and tight. I gave him Ma Huang Tang, but after several doses there still was no sweating; again we tried Zhang Miao’s roasting steaming method, and this…

Xu Shu-Wei : Discourses on the Shang Han Lun
By Steven Clavey
(Thanks Steve for this introduction and the case studies that follow. Please visit his Chinese medicine journal, The Lantern.)
Xu Shu-Wei (许叔微) was a well-known physician who lived during the Southern Song Dynasty (1075 – c. 1156). Having attained a certain level in the imperial examinations, he was known as Xu Xue-Shi — `Xu the Scholar’. He was the author of numerous works in the Shang Han Lun…