Jenny was a 40-something female who came to our clinic because she had a severe constipation issues. She had a bad stomach extension; her bowel movements were hard and pebbles like. With a strong Chinese herbal formula, she could easily go but occassionally experienced a bad diarrhea. For which she welcomed it happily. She said she rather had her bowel loose than not going at all. With herbs, her bowel turned soft pasty and was incomplete 95% of time. She always had too good an appetite without acid reflux. She sometimes experienced a bloating lower abdomen. With herbal help her period was good flows without cramping and clots. Jenny's body temperature tends to run hot.
She usually wakes up hot at night without night sweat. She did wake up every nite about an hour before returning to sleep and she often wakes up rested. Her hands & feet are normally cold but she craves for cold drinks. She had good energy. When she was looking for jobs, she got moderately anxious.
Jenny often had huge amount of gas and bloating. You could hear gurgling sound in her abdomen area below her navel. It indicated a liver and stomach Qi blockage. The diagnosis for her was: liver fire and stomach fire; Treatment strategy was to sooth qi, moving qi, and moving blood.
A typical prescribed herbal formula for Jenny includes Sheng Di, Yu Li Ren, and Fan Xie Ye to help digestive issues and other herbs to help move blood.
Jenny had been coming for her herbal prescription twice a month for more than a year. Her case was under the tuturledge of Dr. Tao Xie from Quincy, Massachusetts.