The snoring trouble of a 20 years old beauty, a medical case of Chinese medicine not dealing with snoring, but snoring was healed naturally.

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Snoring is a condition in which the loudness of snoring increases more than 60dB after the patient is asleep, which hinders the gas exchange during normal breathing. Generally speaking, it has no great impact on the body, but about 5% of snoring patients also have different degrees of breath-holding phenomenon during sleep, called obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, which can lead to different degrees of hypoxia, and over time, it will cause hormone secretion dysfunction in the human body, thus causing damage to a variety of systems and tissues and organs; causing serious lack of oxygen to the brain and blood, forming hypoxemia and damaging the cardiovascular system. It can cause hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction, heart rate disorder, myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, stroke, sexual dysfunction, etc. Serious cases can lead to sudden death at night. Snoring in children can affect physical and intellectual development. (The above is extracted from Baidu Encyclopedia)

 

For Chinese medicine, snoring is a side symptom, not a main symptom, so it is usually not used as the main basis for prescription when differentiating symptoms.

 

On February 7, 2022, a classmate studying TCM together in a WeChat group said that she recently visited a friend’s and was embarrassed by complaints of severe snoring in her sleep at night.

 

On February 9, she said she was again complained by her sister about snoring all night until she woke up in the morning, and it was not 2 minutes after she got into bed, the snoring was up.

 

Usually in people’s imagination, snoring is the exclusive problem of the fat middle-aged man, but it’ s a young beauty who snores too. She said she was sleeping alone before, so she didn’t know she had this problem. Now it’s affecting family and friends, so she’s seeking Chinese medicine to see how to treat it.

 

In the group, several students said they also snore, and all of them are girls, so it seems that snoring is really not the patent of men.

After studying Chinese medicine, this student also wanted to use Chinese medicine to try to treat it, and gave herself Han Xia Hou Po Tang. After drinking a dose, she felt that her nose was more blocked. The snoring sound was really loud when sheI tested it with the instrument.

 

She had no choice but to consult me, and after I interviewed her by video, I collected her symptoms.

Fear of cold

A little tiredness in the neck and back

Occasional coughing

Runny nose

Stuffy nose, no smell, can’t even smell the strong medicinal smell of the decoction of Chinese medicine, can barely smell a little vinegar only when she opens the lid of vinegar

keep spitting up at night

Feeling bloated and uncomfortable in stomach since morning

Feet are slightly cold

Tongue light red, fat, white smooth tongue coating, tongue moist and dripping

No pulse taking

 

She was diagnosed as Taiyang syndrome with fluid-retention in the body caused by external cold. She was prescribed 3 doses of medicine.

 

This girl likes to procrastinate and never went to buy the medicine after the prescription, while another patient who was interviewed on the same day had already given feedback that they were well, but she hadn’t taken the medicine yet! It seems that snoring is painful for others and not for herself. If she was the one who couldn’t sleep, I guess she would have gone to get the medicine the same day.

I urged her a few times, and scared her that I would not treat her if she didn’t listen to me, and then she went to get the medicine. Luckily, after taking 3 doses, the feedback came back that the symptoms were much better on the night of February 14, and the snoring was much reduced. She has the instrument test, before and after data comparison.

 

This is Chinese medicine, grasping the main symptoms, not treating snoring while it is healed natrually. This is the basic skill that must be mastered in learning TCM: to grasp the main symptoms from many symptoms, and only then can the prescription be energy-efficient enough.

Do you, a TCM enthusiast, know what I have prescribed based on the above symptoms and identification? Welcome to leave your comments in the comment section, think more and make more progress!

 

 

The way to deal with a gout patient who doesn’t trust TCM is to leave him in pain for two more days and then conquer him with one dose!

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Gout man who doesn’t trust Chinese medicine

 

On May 9, 2021, a student from Fuzhou, Fujian Province, approached me, saying that her husband felt painful when pressing in the liver meridian’s Ligou point on his foot for a few days, and she had learned acupuncture and wanted to try acupuncture.

 

After she had placed acupuncture needles on several points, the femoral head was sore, more soreness and less pain, and her husband would wake up at 2 pm with soreness and pain. Firstly the bone next to the Gb 30 point and the groin to the knee, then the right knee to the buttock (the buttock bone was sore), and even the middle bone of the buttock was sore, and the knee was cold and sore.

 

Her husband did not believe that Chinese medicine could treat the problem and insisted on going to the hospital for a CT scan, where the surgeon diagnosed the cause as drinking too much and walking too much,who drinks a glass of liquor at night and walks about 20,000 steps, and gave him antibiotics to fight inflammation and osteotriol for osteoporosis.

…… I said, let him go to the hospital doctor to cure it, the pain is not on me anyway. I insist on the principle of “doctor does not knock at the door of patients”, I insist on not to treat people who do not believe in Chinese medicine, and not to treat people who do not trust me, as long as they show a little bit of distrust I am determined not to take action, not to waste each other’s precious time, so I do not worry about it.

 

On May 12, I went to Shanghai to attend an exhibition. The learner said her husband had done acupuncture in the hospital, but he was still in pain and had difficulty walking. The learner sent me the questionnaire and the situation, hoping that I would treat him with classic Chinese medicine.

 

I briefly asked about the symptoms and quickly determined that it was a combination of dampness in the kidneys and wind-cold dampness in the extremities. Due to the tight schedule in Shanghai, I did not issue a prescription. At the same time, I thought that since the patient did not believe in Chinese medicine, I would leave him in pain for two more days.

 

On May 14,the learner again urged, said her husband’s feet have been sore and uncomfortable, was to go to the customer’s home to measure the size to customize the bathroom, could not go and have her go. In the evening back to the hotel diagnosed by video chat with them and then prescribed.

 

She went to fill the prescription first thing in the morning on the 15th, saying her husband had been in pain all night and couldn’t hit the ground.

 

Fortunately, the first dose resulted in good feedback, and by the third dose he was able to walk easily. The prescription was adjusted back and forth twice.

 

After this biting pain, I guess this man who doesn’t believe in TCM can understand that TCM can cure the disease.Today the learner joked in the group that her husband drinks every day, saying with Master Guo,he fears no gout!

Do you, the Chinese medicine enthusiast, know what I prescribed? Welcome to leave a message in the comments section, more thinking, progress more!

Two treatments for kidney stones, TCM can easily and painlessly expel 5 mm kidney stones without surgery!

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Kidney stone of a schoolmate

In 2019, a high school alumnus’ schoolmate contacted me and said that he had a kidney stone attack. He complained of this problem for years and only recently had pain. Asked me whether it is better to see a Chinese medical doctor or a Western medical doctor.

Ten years ago, he took Chinese medicine prescribed by an old Chinese medical doctor at the Chi Fu Hospital for a few months with little change. Later, the Western doctor who conducted the physical examination said that the stones were not large enough to require medication, while the kidney cysts could not be eliminated by taking any medicine.

I was studying TCM that time and had already cured several cases of kidney stones, including my mother-in-law, so I felt a bit lost and said with conviction that you should take the 14 doses I prescribed and then go for ultrasound, and guaranteed the stones would be discharged from the body.

 

I have not failed before, but this time I was quickly smacked in the face, after taking the medicine, nothing changed in the patient! Schoolmate reassured me, at least no more pain, forget about it first ……

This case has been hanging in my heart, I constantly reflect on where I did not do well.

Some time ago, we discussed the treatment of kidney stones in Wechat group of people who were studying TCM together, and Ah Bao said, “Has anyone really seen with their own eyes that stones can be discharged with Zhuling Tang? For example, kidney stones, if you have seen it, you should promote it, you know how many people suffer from stones every year? The pain is worse than death! There is no way to get rid of stones in the kidney that are more than 5 mm in size! There is no such a large physiological channel, unless the medicine can make the stone broken or melted. Its very very hard to to make the stone broken or melted by drinking Chinese Medicine, and people who have this ability can really earn big money  lying down! Hurry up and launch it for the benefit of patients!

This again stung the nerve of my once failed kidney stone treatment, I reflected on it and said: I can accept the challenge! But I have to diagnose in person, I dare not guarantee 100% success, at least 60% sure.

 

It was really a coincidence that at the end of 2021,the schoolmate who failed to expel the stone last time reached me again and said the stone was bigger than ever before.

To be on the safe side I said I would see him in person, and when I pressed the point of kidney stone with my hand, I was surprised that there was not much reaction! He felt only a little bit sore and I finally understood the reason why I missed the last time.

 

After taking the pulse, the ulnar pulse was sunken and thin, the left Cun pulse was weak, his back was cold, and the Ju Que point was painful to press. I prescribed two prescriptions in rotation.

After 2weeks,I received feedback from schoolmate that the kidney stones were gone. He used seven doses of each of the two prescriptions altogether. The cost is cheaper than laser lithotripsy, and surprisingly, the stone removal is senseless and painless!

Western medical examination can only be a reference, I suggest to have another face-to-face consultation, after which I will decide whether to continue to take the medicine for a period of time. Because he has gone back to his home town, he will come back in the Spring of 2022 for another consultation.

For you, TCM enthusiasts, do you know what I have prescribed? Welcome to leave a message in the comments section, think more, progress more!

Thyroid tumor-before.

The story of a thyroid tumor patient treated with Chinese medicine

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This is the story of a thyroid tumor patient’s self-reported TCM treatment.

 

On November 7, 2021, when I was washing up in the morning, I found a protruding piece on the left side of my neck, and I felt a foreign body when I pressed it with my hand, which was round, smooth and hard. I personally suspected a thyroid nodule mass, because I had been thinking too much and staying up late with anger continuously some time ago.

 

The symptoms are as follows.
Foreign body feeling in the throat, can’t swallow, can’t spit out, this symptom has been intermittent for three years, although not serious, but stretched. Belching often, fear of cold in the stomach and spleen, cold hands and feet, moodiness, and a very low menstrual flow in November.

Thyroid tumor-before.

Thyroid tumor-before.

So I prescribed myself Six Jun Zi Tang plus Ban Xia Hou Po Tang with Cat’s Claw Herb and Xia Ku Cao. The doctor said it was suspected to be a thyroid nodule and asked me to go to the hospital to have an ultrasound done to confirm it. I didn’t have an ultrasound done because I was already sure it was this disease and didn’t think it was necessary to have an ultrasound done because ultrasound is only used for diagnosis.

I just picked up the herbs at Tong Ren Tang, and after a few days of drinking this formula, the symptoms of cold and fire appeared, so I temporarily stopped taking the medicine. After a few days, I took it again, and this time I drank it for 3-4 days, but I had a cold and fire again, so I had to stop taking it again, thinking it was not right.

I found that the lump on the left side of my neck was getting bigger and harder, and it looked very obvious by naked eyes, because I only learned 20 lessons from the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine in my course, so I was not knowledgeable about the prescriptions, medicinal properties and dosage, and I only knew that acupuncture could also treat it, but some points were inconvenient for me to put needles on myself, and some points were too scared to acupuncture so I gave up the idea of acupuncture.

On December 8, I sought the help of Master Guo and described my previous prescriptions and symptoms one by one, the specific symptoms are as follows.
There is a lump on the left side of the neck, sized like a walnut, sore and swollen when pressed, moving up and down when swallowing, touching it hard, feeling something blocked in the throat.

Tongue coating: yellow in the morning and white during the day.

Appetite is not good, night sweats are severe, and there are green veins on the legs.

I feel that my voice is more hoarse than before, with cold symptoms, fear of wind, clear and yellow nasal discharge and sneezing.

Sometimes the heart will thump a few times, easily irritable and irritable, belching, dry mouth and bitter mouth.

Bad sleep, dreaming a lot, dreaming of being chased, running, and climbing uphill… waking up very tired.

Right abdomen is feeling something hard, I personally feel it like a cluster of gas.

Eyes are easily sore and blurred.

Master Guo diagnosed the symptoms and gave me a prescription for 7 doses. I went to get the medicine that day and boiled it in a casserole. I had one bowel movement after 11:30 pm, a watery stool, and my stomach was not uncomfortable. After that, I went to bed and slept well that night, my night sweats were much reduced, I don’t remember if I dreamed or not, and my dry mouth and bitterness were much reduced the next morning.

 

After 7 doses of medicine, the lump on the left side of the neck was much smaller, about two-thirds of it had disappeared, sleep was normal at night, fear of wind was reduced, night sweats did not occur, the right abdomen became softer (I felt that my stomach had never been so soft), but there was still phlegm stuck, sometimes it could be vomited out, sometimes it could not, loose stools, poor appetite, easily sleepy, poor mental state.

 

Master Guo adjusted the prescription and used 5 doses.

After 5 doses of medicine, the appetite returned to normal, the lump could not be seen from the outside and became very small, about the size of peanut rice when touched by hand, the night sweats were completely gone, the sleep was normal, the mental state returned to normal, the blurred eyes and the acidity disappeared, but the tiredness and pain in the calf belly were still present when waking up.

The prescription was adjusted by Master Guo, and 7 doses were used.

This time, after a delay of three or four days for some reasons, I stopped taking the medicine for more than 10 days due to the onset of menstruation, and finished the 7 doses of medicine on January 14, and the lump on the left side of the neck was only a little bit left, which could not be touched without careful touching, but could be touched about the size of a green bean by careful touching, along with the white phlegm spitting out, and felt that the green bean-sized lump was slowly decreasing, and at present, except for the tiredness and swelling of the calf belly after waking up and having phlegm spitting out, there was no more discomfort.

 

Finally, I was given a prescription to solve the calf and knee problem by Master Guo, with 5 doses, and I will give feedback after I finish the medicine.

Though: I was ill this time, I was fortunate to have gained something from it. In the past, I would have been apprehensive and scared, but not this time, because I was sure that Chinese medicine could solve my problems.

 

During this period, my husband has always been supportive of my choice and did not say anything about going to the hospital for examination and treatment or surgery, because he understands that the first solution that the hospital provides is removal.

 

I was fortunate to meet Master Guo, who had a clear idea of diagnosis and precise medication, and gave me great confidence and courage during the treatment.I truly felt that TCM is not a slow doctor, as long as the diagnosis is correct, the treatment is very fast.

 

I’m grateful to have met TCM, and grateful to have met Master Guo. At the same time, because of my lazy learning, I’ve just started to catch up with the progress of the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine in the past few days, but my own illness has laid a solid foundation for me to learn TCM.

 

As for you, TCM enthusiasts, how do you prescribe a prescription based on the symptoms described by the patient? Welcome to leave a message in the comments section, more thinking, more progress.

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Uterine masses, menstrual stagnation and abdominal pain, no need for surgery, TCM can be effective in 3 doses on accurate dialectic!

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Case of uterine mass, menstrual stagnation and abdominal pain

Ten days ago, I suddenly received a request for help from a friend in Shandong province on Wechat, complaining of stomach pain and menstruation at the same time, which was black and dirty and still dirty at the end. She had not eaten for several days, only congee, no appetite, feeling bitter in the mouth, stomach pain involving the pain round the waist. Its like a wave which is quiet normally, when seizure will be in pain from light to heavy then to light.

 

She asked if she could take any Chinese medicine. I didn’t know her situation well enough to give any advice, so I refused at that time.

 

She then went to the hospital to see her doctor, who asked her to be hospitalized for a detailed examination before making further treatment plans. After examination, it was found that there was a 5.7*4.6 mass in her uterus and the ultrasound showed a smooth edge of that mass.

 

The doctor recommended an immediate surgery, but as the fever had been persistent, the inflammation needed to clear before surgery could be performed. The patient was allergic to the antibiotic cephalosporin and was given levofloxacin infusion for three consecutive days, which did not reduce the fever. The fever was usually in the afternoon, 37-38°C.

 

She expressed that she sweats easily on her chest, sweats on her upper body when she has fever. She has no appetite, her stomach hurts, her belly is so tight that it hurts when she tugs on her clothes, she is more comfortable when she lies down, but it hurts badly when she stands, and her right breast hurts a little occasionally.

 

After a week of examination and infusion in the hospital, the patient was still not well and was so upset that she didn’t want to have surgery, so the doctor could only discharge the patient to go home for three days and then follow up.

 

In WeChat messaging with me are crying, feel so helpless, too much pain feel very uncomfortable, she are ready to die, and said to her husband if she died, he can marry again, as long as her children are raised well. She told me to help her no matter what.

 

I asked her to send me the Ten Inquiries of Chinese Medicine, a photo of her tongue, and a small video briefly describing her condition.

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tongue diagnosis

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tongue diagnosis

I. Sleep
Will wake up several times at irregular times
II. Appetite
No appetite
III. Stool
Loose stools, unformed, about twice a day
IV. Urine
Yellow color
V. Sweating
Easily sweat on the chest, sweat on the upper body when fever
Sixth, thirst
Sometimes thirsty and want to drink hot water
Seven, the temperature of the feet
Warm

Eight, the body’s hot or cold when sleeping
A bit cold
IX. Menstruation
Normal menstruation, occasional menstrual pain, there will be blood clots
X. Physical strength
No energy

I wrote a prescription and told her to soak the medicine in a small cup of wine and water for 20 minutes and then boil it for 40 minutes, with one of the medicines, mannitol, to be added when drinking every bowl of the medicine.

 

She may have diarrhea after taking the medicine, but don’t worry. If three doses are not effective, seek another highly skilled doctor.

 

She gave feedback after taking the medicine: when she drank the first bowl, the medicine was very hard to drink and she wanted to vomit, and by the afternoon she still had a fever, and the strangury hurt two or three times around seven o’clock, but the pain was much less. I instructed her to continue to drink the next two doses.

 

This morning, she asked me if she should continue to drink the medicine since she had finished the three doses, her body temperature had returned to between 36-37℃, her stomach didn’t hurt anymore, she didn’t have to cover her stomach when she went to the bathroom, she could walk more easily, and her appetite had improved. I asked briefly and wrote another prescription to close, and told her to go for an ultrasound after drinking the five doses.

 

Can you, the TCM enthusiast, analyze what I prescribed? Leave a message in the comment section and I will publish the answer subsequently. Thinking is the only way to make progress!

A serious disease that western medicine believed may become sepsis, Traditional Chinese Medicine classical formula cured 80% with a dose!

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Sifu’s illness (taken from the internet)

In the summer of 2006 I was fortunate enough to attend a course of study run by my teacher. It didn’t take long for the test to come. That winter, one day the master asked me to see him in a hurry. My master was an old monk on the mountain and was usually extremely strict in self-discipline.

 

At that time, I was next to the master when he had an attack. I had just finished my teacher’s course not long ago and did not have much experience with classical fomular yet. I was very nervous because Master’s condition was very dangerous.

 

When Master returned from Myanmar, he had a high fever, severe fever and chills, a heartbeat of over 130, painful untouchable skin, painful swollen joints in the limbs, swollen face, eye droppings, eyes that could not be opened, and small pustules on the skin all over his body.

 

He invited an authority from the Western medicine immunology department to look at the situation and said that the master’s situation was very serious and could lead to sepsis and ulceration of the whole body.

 

I immediately called my teacher, described the master’s symptoms, teacher asked, “Feel to see if the old monk sweat out of the body? Is there nausea and vomiting?”

 

I said: there is a little sweating, no vomiting.

 

Teacher said, “Do not care what Western doctors say the name of the disease, how serious, do not be nervous, its just a small problem to TCM classical formular. A dose of formula with six bowls of water boiled into two bowls, take the first bowl before meal, within three hours if the symptoms go, then stop taking, if the symptoms are still there, then take the second bowl. ”

 

According to my teacher’s instruction, I gave the master a prescription to get the materia medica and decoct, and fed him the first bowl, the symptoms of cold and heat went away 80%, and then took the second bowl, and the cold and heat were eliminated.

 

……… However, because I was too nervous, I made a mistake in the first dose on ephedra as 25 grams, the same as the Cinnamon Twig.  As a result, the master’s condition improved very significantly, but his lips got dry and ruptured!

 

I have not yet mastered the classical formula well, so I had to ask my teacher for help again. Teacher asked about the prescription and pointed out that it was because I had reversed the dosage of Ephedra and Cinnamomum that the patient had dry lips, otherwise the patient would have been able to finish the work in one dose.

 

Regarding the master’s severe joint pain, the teacher suggested to add 15 grams of Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, 15 grams of Radix Pseudostellariae, and 25 grams of Divaricate Saposhnikovia Root to the original prescription. Before I left, I went to the mountain to visit Master again, and his skin was reborn like a skin change. Master told me that after the first dose, the skin of his toes could be taken out intact like a thumbtack.

 

Once I was introduced to Chinese medicine, I believed that it was very good, and after studying with my teacher I saw even more the power of classical formula. But this time I personally witnessed the miraculous effect of the medicine, it was beyond imagination, and the teacher has not seen the patient since the beginning!

 

Do you want to know how the teacher made the prescription? Welcome Chinese medicine enthusiasts in the comments section to leave your syndrome differentiation and treatment, later teacher’s prescriptions will be published for you to study, by this way you can get faster and greater progress