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The Core Mission of Medicine: Addressing "Excess" and "Deficiency" in the Human Body Is the way of Heaven not like drawing a bow? The high is brought down; the low is raised. What is in excess is reduced; what is deficient is supplemented. Such is…

A new‑conducted British study has found that merely sleeping an extra 11 minutes, doing 4.5 more minutes of moderate‑to‑vigorous exercise, and eating approximately an extra quarter‑cup of vegetables each day can reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events by roughly 10 percent. Published in the European…

My Medical Thoughts: The Wisdom of Staying Healthy and Minimising Illness The most effective, safest and also most economical health‑care solution is disease prevention. If we do not fall ill in the first place, no treatment will be needed, we run no risks from medical…

Professor Chen Danping's "Menopausal Insomnia Formula" for Treating Menopausal Insomnia Professor Chen Danping is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) gynecologist at Shanghai Jing'an District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Through years of clinical practice, he has developed several empirical prescriptions for various gynecological disorders, with the…

The Open‑source Medical Idea: Characteristic Multi‑target Therapy with Large‑scale Traditional‑Chinese‑Medicine Compound Prescriptions If readers have read from the preface up to the present section, you may well understand that the characteristic multi‑target therapy with large‑scale TCM compound prescriptions I advocate is essentially a philosophy for…

Medication should be administered step‑by‑step; drug withdrawal ought to proceed slowly; relapse prevention needs scientific‑based strategies. I advocate the characteristic therapy of large‑scale compound prescriptions with multi‑target effects. Having practised this therapy clinically for over ten years, I have witnessed its curative effects firsthand and…

Formulation‑Building Rules for the Multi‑target Characteristic Therapy of Large‑scale Compound Prescriptions in Traditional Chinese Medicine How can we compose a large‑scale compound prescription with promising curative effects? Are there accessible formulation‑making principles for constructing such prescriptions? The fundamental principle behind traditional‑Chinese‑medicine prescription‑making lies in herb…

On a Saturday morning, my wife and I tended to our vegetable plot. Once we finished the chores, I suddenly fancied a drive into the mountains of Mentougou, and my wife agreed to tag along. We headed by car toward Yanchi Town. Mountains stretch everywhere…

Symptoms: The Bridge Connecting Diverse Medical Systems Abstract: This article proposes that clinical symptoms serve as the fundamental communicative interface among different medical traditions, including traditional Chinese medicine, modern Western medicine, and various indigenous healing systems. By examining the historical evolution of medical knowledge, the…

What Is the "Large-Formula Multi-Target Specialty Therapy"? (Part 1) Before introducing this self-created "Large-Formula Multi-Target Specialty Therapy," I would like to recount two past events. The first event goes back to my sophomore year in high school, when I solved a combinatorics problem. The problem…