Case of Leukemia Fever Reduction, October 17, 1978

Case of Leukemia Fever Reduction, October 17, 1978

Li Ying, a 15-year-old child of a railway station employee in Lanzhou, suffered from acute lymphoblastic leukemia. After Western chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine to support the body, her condition greatly improved. Later, she was transferred from the Lanzhou Railway Hospital to the Internal Medicine Department of the Lanzhou Army General Hospital. Since it was a military hospital, it was difficult for the patient to take traditional Chinese medicine, so she stopped taking it for 15 days and only received Taxol injections for chemotherapy. During this period, her condition deteriorated further, with decreasing levels of all three types of blood cells, followed by persistent high fever that didn't respond to any medication. Her mother was very worried and asked me for advice. I thought about it! This child had a high fever for more than ten days without subsiding, and leukemia is a disease of the blood, so the fever must be in the blood! Therefore, I used Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang as the main formula. Drawing on Dr. Yue Meizhong's experience of using aromatic, light-penetrating methods to treat damp-heat syndrome, when the fever doesn't go down and persists for two weeks, with a rapid and moist pulse and a yellow tongue coating, I added 9g of fresh ho xiang, 9g of fresh peilan, 10g of fresh lotus leaf, 9g of bamboo leaves, 6g of young artemisia, 3g of tong cao, 9g of green bamboo leaves, 5g of magnolia flower, 30g of reed root, and 30g of fresh reed stem. I added these ingredients to Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang and gave the patient three doses, and Li Ying's fever immediately went down.