Insights and Updates

A person's true life should be within his own heart. — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from a Dead House On November 19, 2023, the seventeenth day after my cousin's death, I was somewhat dazed and, while cycling, again fell into deep thought over a tricky clinical…

The various formulas I created during last year's pandemic period remain remarkably effective for wind-cold colds this winter. Yesterday morning, my wife called out that her body ached and she felt fatigued. My first thought was that she had been infected. But she insisted she…

Dear patients and friends, over the past week I have been hospitalized after a car crash and could not handle work normally; I apologize. This crash was the closest I have come to death in my life, and it has affected me greatly. The photos…

I have long been engaged in TCM research on anti-cancer treatment. At the same time, around the problems of cancer patients, I have also studied cancer biology, modern oncology, psychology, and psychiatry, and have worked out some insights from clinical practice and reading. Today I…

At the outset of this article, I want to emphasize: cancer patients, do not take folk remedies! Do not take folk remedies! Do not take folk remedies! The important things are said three times. Before using Chinese medicine, be sure to ask a qualified physician…

Life is destined to bring many misfortunes, and especially so in middle age. This year, not only have I endured a series of partings and deaths, but two childhood friends close to me are suffering similar fates. The mother of one of my junior-high classmates…

"Poyu Dan" (Stagnation-Breaking Pellet) comes from Ming-dynasty Gong Tingxian's Wanbing Huichun (Recurrence of Health for Myriad Diseases). It is composed of: Cyperus Rhizome (Xiangfu Mi), four liang (120g); Cape Jasmine Fruit (Zhizi Ren, stir-fried), four liang (120g); Coptis (Huanglian, stir-fried in ginger juice), two liang…

Among patients with various personality disorders, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is currently the most studied, because this personality disorder has the greatest impact on a person's life. The suicide rate among people with borderline personality is 400 times that of the general population. Among all…

When a person flies into a rage, symptoms of qi stagnation in the chest and diaphragm and distending pain in both hypochondria may appear. TCM holds that this is counterflow and fullness of qi caused by rage damaging the liver. In Ming-dynasty physician Zhang Jingyue's…

Listen not to rain beating leaves through the forest—why not stroll on, chanting lightly? A bamboo staff and straw sandals are lighter than a horse; who fears? A bamboo raincoat through life's showers. The biting spring wind sobers the wine; a little chill, yet the…