Eight Extra Deficiency (YTS)

Original Case by: Ye Tian-Shi

A woman was postpartum for over 10 years. When her disease broke out there was a droopy head, painful spine, sagging vertebral qi, heart pain[1], and a cold sweat. This was a du and ren vessel qi disharmony and loss of use of the qiao and wei vessel, and the five yin fluids were completely dried up. In this type of situation plant-based medicinals are ineffective, being unable to treat the exhausted essence and blood. One must use flesh and blood medicinals to fill and nourish, while aiming to unblock and tonify the eight extraordinary channels.

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Irregular Menses (8 Extra-Excess) (YTS)

By: Ye Tian-Shi (Case #3)

Zhou was a 17-year-old unmarried girl with menstrual irregularities. Her menses were sometimes early and sometimes late. Prior to her menses she had abdominal pain that was worse than normal, and her intake of food and drink was greatly reduced. This problem started at the beginning of summer, and going into autumn her lower burner was often cold. There were abdominal sounds, and alternating diarrhea and constipation. The examination revealed that she easily had depressed anger without any real reason. This was Liver qi tending towards horizontal [attack], in which the Stomach first was harmed. The chong, ren, qiao, and wei channels all belong to the Liver and Kidney. The channels were not circulating properly, and the qi and blood was gradually becoming blocked, leading to obstruction. If there is a lack of flow there must be clumping with mobile abdominal masses, accumulations of strings and aggregations (a kind of abdominal masses).

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Gui Zhi Er Yue Bi Yi Tang

1. Exterior Cold, Inner Heat

Liu Du Zhou

Case from: Dr. Liu Du Zhou

This patient was a 10-year-old girl who received a cold Qi in late autumn. She developed fever and an aversion to cold and had episodes of this many times a day. This went on for several months. Her pulse was floating and without strength. Her tongue body was red and the moss was thin and white. Her food and drink intake and excretions were normal. This was a case of wind cold stagnating on the outside chronically without resolution. The cold had transformed to heat but was a light case. I gave her two packages of Gui Zhi Er Yue Bi Yi Tang (modified).

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Misdiagnosed – Painful obstruction #3

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 month, but whenever she would sweat and was exposed to wind, her pain would increase.

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