Name: Xie Lahua

Sex: Female

Age: 38

July 1, 2005.

The left knee joint has point pains inside. The outside of the right elbow joint has point pains for half a year. She couldn¨t use power, and these joints are red and swollen. When walking, the left leg is also painful and of no effect to use rheumatic cream. The left leg swells and pains, no needling, burning and cold sense. Local pressure results in pains obviously. All these pains last 12 hours per day. No pain when sleeping. The right hand can not do up her hair. No thirst and bitter taste in the mouth. No cough. The appetite is fine. The bowel movement is once every two days. The urine is not yellowish. No night urination. She rarely takes part in physical labor. Dreaminess. No bored sense. The left waist aches very much. No pains in the bones of waist. No afternoon fever and night sweating. She is not aversion to coldness in winter.

Weak and thready pulse. Moist tongue body. The tongue coating is yellowish, thin and greasy. The tongue has teeth marks.

Western medicine diagnoses as tendinitis.

Formula:

codonopsis root 15g,  ovate atractylodes rhizome 15g,  poria 10g,  mulberry seed 15g,  cuscuta seed 10g,  lycium berry 10g,  eucommia bark 10g,  pearch kernel 10g,  carthamus flower 10g,  sparganum 8g,  zedoary 8g,   notopterygium 8g,  duhuo angelica 8g,  millettia root and stem 10g,  siegesbeckia10g,  amommum seed 12g, dandelion 15g,  wild chrysanthemum flower 15g,   toosendon 10g

                                                                                                                                                      Dr. Ming

July 8, 2005

The internal pains of the left lower limbs are improved 80%, and the pains of the right elbow joint are improved 20%. The stomach gets used to the tea. Normal appetite and sleep. No burning sense with the bone. Slightly yellowish and greasy tongue coating.

Foumula:

mulberry seed 15g,  cuscuta seed 10g, lycium berry 10g,  eucommia bark 10g, pearch kernel 10g,  carthamus flower 10g,  sparganum 8g,  zedoary 8g, notopterygium 10g,  duhuo angelica 10g,  turmeric 10g,  mulberry twig 10g,  millettia root and stem 10g,  siegesbeckia 10g,  amommum seed 12g,  dandelion 15g,  wild chrysanthemum flower 15g,   toosendon 10g