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Contents of Zui Hua Chuang Medical Cases
0.Zui Hua Chuang Medical Cases: Treatise on Medical Theories
Chapter1. Eye Pain due to Yin Deficiency with Internal Heat
Chapter2. Phlegm-Dampness Obstructing Lung-Stomach Causing Cough, Asthma and Syncope
Chapter3.Systemic Flushing with Yin Deficiency and Hyperactive Fire
Chapter4.Severe Scarlet Fever-like Rash with Coma
Chapter5. Cholera with Vomiting and Diarrhea
Chapter6.Spleen Deficiency Causing Digestive Constipation
Chapter7.Wind Pathogen Invading Organs Causing Sudden Aphasia
Chapter8.Liver Qi Stagnation Inducing Hematemesis
Chapter9.Food Retention Triggering Diarrhea
Chapter10.Dizziness from Spleen Deficiency with Dampness
Chapter11. Post-Stroke Limb Swelling and Pain
Chapter12. Liver Fire Excess with Qi-Blood Stasis
Chapter13.Spleen Deficiency with Overeating: Danger from Misusing Purgatives
Chapter14.Mistreatment of Cold Syndrome
Chapter15.Qi Stagnation Causing Phlegm Vomiting
Chapter16.lmproper Diet with Cold Exposure Leading to Phlegm-Dampness
Chapter17.Excessive Cold Drinks Causing Qi-Blood Congealing
Chapter18.Heatstroke from Overexertion
Chapter19. Eczema with Qi Deficiency Aggravated by Cold Herbs Overuse
Chapter20. Yin Deficiency with Blood Heat: Mistaken Use of Warming Herbs
Chapter21. External Wind-Heat Pathogen Invasion
Chapter22.Dietary lmpropriety Damaging the Stomach
Chapter23.Excess Damp-Heat Syndrome Mistakenly Treated with Tonics
Chapter24.Diarrhea caused by excessive water intake was mistakenly treated with ascending tonics
Chapter25,Yin Deficiency with Internal Heat Damaging Spleen and Blood
Chapter26.Liver Qi Stagnation Causing Hernia Pain
Chapter27. Common Cold with Internal Heat and Wind-Cold Attack
Chapter28.Yin-Type Abscess on Back (Chronic Ulcer)
Chapter29.Wind-Phlegm Disturbing the Mind Causing Confusion
Chapter 30.Postpartum Abdominal Pain
Chapter 31. Concurrent Postpartum Chest Pain, Lactation Phlegm Syndrome, and Liver Damage from Rage
Chapter32. Liver Stagnation with Rebellious Qi: Pulse-Symptom Mismatch
Chapter33.Summerheat Stagnation Mistreated with Warming Herbs
Chapter34.Parotitis(Mumps)
Chapter35.Complex cold-Heat Pattern: Stomach Heat with Spleen Cold
Chapter36.Overthinking Damaging Spleen, Phlegm-Dampness Disturbing Heart
Chapter37.Qi Stagnation Causing Wheezing and Cough
Chapter38.Exhaustion-Induced Insomnia with Refractory lrregular Pulse
Chapter39. Vomiting due to Qi Stagnation
Chapter40.Intractable Yin-Blood Deficiency with Stomach Qi Collapse
Chapter41.Cold-Dampness Pouring Down Causing Arthralgia
chapter42.Severe Refractory Liver Qi Stagnation
chapter43.Intestinal Fluid Retention with Urinary Blockage
chapter44. Pregnancy Convulsions (Eclampsia)
45.Chronic Phlegm Syndrome Leading to Yin-Yang Deficiency
chapter46.After giving birth, the body experiences low energy levels and the circulatory system becomes disrupted
chapter47.Damp-Bi Mimicking Paralysis
chapter48.Eye Pain from Yin Deficiency and Liver Stagnation
chapter49. Elderly Uterine Flooding with Yin-Yang Deficiency
chapter50.Cholera-Induced Muscle Spasms
chapter51. Malaria with persistent high fever
chapter52. Spleen Deficiency with Liver Stagnation
chapter53. Cold-Type Malaria
chapter54.Food Accumulation Causing Abdominal Pain
chapter55.Stomach Heat Leading to Blood Stasis
chapter56. Phlegm-Fire Stagnation in Lung
chapter57.Wind-Phlegm Induced Cough
chapter58. Melancholy-Induced Disease with Progressive Loss of Leg and Eye Fu
chapter59.Hyperactive Deficiency Fire Unresponsive to Heat-Clearing Purgation
chapter60.Wind-Cold Edema Mistreated with Tonification
chapter61. Yang Deficiency with Blood Heat Misdiagnosed as Rash Syndrome
chapter62. Skin Macules from Yin Deficiency and Excessive Heat
chapter63. Blood Deficiency with Liver Stagnation
chapter64. Spleen deficiency causes heavy uterine bleeding
chapter65.Food Accumulation Leading to Amenorrhea
chapter66.Qi Stagnation Causing Amenorrhea
chapter67.Discussion on Dianthus superbus (Hemostatic Herb)
chapter68.Severe Smallpox
chapter69.Infantile Milk-Food Retention
chapter70.Qi Stagnation Generating Phlegm
chapter71. Fatal Misuse of Laughing Powder (Shi Xiao San)
chapter72. Fluid Retention Causing Food Vomiting
chapter73.Prudent Pattern Differentiation and Herb Use
chapter74. Insomnia from Fluid Retention
chapter75. Vomiting due to Food Accumulation
chapter76.Damp-Phlegm Deep Abscess
chapter77.Spleen Deficiency with Dampness-Phlegm Disturbing Mind
chapter78.Excess Damp-Heat Syndrome Causing Spermatorrhea
chapter79.Pulse Diagnosis as Meticulous as Judicial Trial
chapter80.Excess Damp-Heat Syndrome Causing Hematemesis
chapter81.Spleen Deficiency with Food Stagnation Causing Menstrual Disorder
chapter82.Qi Stagnation with Fluid Retention and Phlegm Obstructing Lungs
chapter83.Stomach Retention Causing Limb Swelling
chapter84. Two Formulas: Fetus Protection and Lactation Promotion
chapter85.Liver Qi constriction Breeding Fire
chapter86. Liver Wood Overacting on Spleen Earth (Liver Qi Invading Spleen)
chapter87. Flaring Deficiency Fire Causing Deafness
chapter88.Qi Stagnation with Phlegm: Wheezing, Cough and Anorexia
chapter89. Leg Ulcer as External Manifestation
chapter90. Shaoyang Common Cold with Heat Entering Blood Chamber (Gynecological Infec)
chapter91.Phlegm Syncope Causing Headache
chapter92.Qi Stagnation Causing Food Accumulation
chapter93.Dampness Pouring Down Causing Leg-Foot Edema
chapter94.Spleen-Stomach Retention Mistreated with Warming Herbs
chapter95.Mistreatment of Heat Disease
chapter96. Heat Disease in Late Summer
chapter97. Yin Depletion Leading to Blood Heat
chapter98.Fluid Retention Causing Wheezing and Cough
chapter99. Severe Weakness with Abdominal Distension and Plum-Pit Qi induced Wheezing
chapter100. Hypochondriac Pain from Qi Stagnation
chapter101. Liver Damage from Sudden Rage with Heat Entering Blood Chamber
chapter102. Food Accumulation Causing Chest Stuffiness
chapter103.Qi stagnation and phlegm congestion
chapter104.Infantile Gan Malnutrition (Liver Disorder)
chapter105. Dietary-Induced Qi Stagnation with Middle Jiao Blockage
chapter106.Qi Stagnation Leading to Spleen Deficiency
chapter107.Liver Stagnation Causing Headache
108. Edition Notes of the Precious Medical Text: Zui Hua Chuang Medical Cases
Author of Zui Hua Chuang Medical Cases
Name: Wang Yu (1820-1889)
Epithets:
Styled Rongtang
Later sobriquet Master of Intoxicated Blossoms Window
Origin: Taigu, Shanxi (modern Jinzhong City)
Medical School: Syncretist of the Cold Damage School and Warm Disease School , renowned for pulse diagnosis and formula modification
Academic Contributions
1. Major Works
Zui Hua Chuang Medical Cases: 4 volumes documenting 216 clinical cases
New Interpretations of Pulse Formulas : Manuscript preserved at the National Library of China (Or. 8210/S.3812)
Seeking Truth in Cold Damage Studies : No longer extant, preface survives in Shanxi Provincial Gazetteer: Arts Section
2. Medical Theories
Pulse Diagnosis Innovation:
Developed Triple Burner Positioning Pulse Diagnosis, operationalizing Classic of Difficulties theories.
Formula Adaptation Expertise:
Mastered modified use of Shanghan Lun formulas for warm diseases, e.g., combining Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) with Xijiao Dihuang Tang (Rhinoceros Horn and Rehmannia Decoction) to treat heat entering nutrient-blood phase
Pathomechanism Insight:
Proposed “Liver as the Bandit of Five Zang-Organs theory, predating Wang Xugao’s Night Talks from Xixi Studio by three decades.
Historical Context
Wang Yu attained the Jinshi degree during the Daoguang and Xianfeng eras of the Qing Dynasty . His clinical records reflect:
Integration of northern Cold Damage therapeutics with southern Warm Disease principles
Epidemiological responses to 19th-century cholera outbreaks in Shanxi
Pioneering documentation of Liver depression patterns in gynecological disorders (Explore Wang Yu’s Biography)https://timtcm.com/wangyu/
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