Insights and Updates

Some readers, having seen me publish my book manuscript, have asked to buy a paper copy. I am very sorry: there is no paper edition yet, and the book is not finished. Even if I finish it in the next few years, I will not…

For Chinese people today, the two most familiar medical systems are TCM and Western medicine. In fact, many peoples once had their own traditional medicine; India's classical Ayurveda is even called the mother of medicine, and its influence is considerable. Iran has a Persian medical…

When I published the "My Medical Philosophy" series, two readers sent messages through the WeChat backend describing how they or their family members had been treated with large formulas by other TCM physicians with satisfactory results. Today I am sharing screenshots of those messages with…

Here I offer a definition of the large-formula multi-target special therapy I advocate: it is a comprehensive approach to treating refractory diseases whose causes and pathology are both intricate. It is a treatment strategy designed, on the basis of full consideration of a disease's known…

Before introducing the large-formula multi-target special therapy I developed, I want to recount two past events. The first is a math problem I solved in the second year of high school, a permutation-and-combination problem. It went like this: there are five balls numbered 1, 2,…

The reason refractory diseases are hard to treat is that their causes and pathology are intricate; they cannot be grasped by simple thinking or treated by simple methods. Unfortunately, human medicine today still largely operates with simple-minded approaches to disease. That is why, when treating…

Around the end of June or the beginning of July this year, a reader messaged me about an experience of his former teacher. His teacher had once been a diehard fan of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM); whenever he fell ill he would seek TCM treatment,…

Patient: Li, male, 58 years old, from Hubei province (my hometown). In May 2026 he developed abdominal pain without obvious cause—persistent epigastric pain below the xiphoid, of a distending nature. It was accompanied by nausea and vomiting, recurring repeatedly. He was seen by the gastroenterology…

Patient: a woman, surname Zuo, 68 years old. She had previously been treated with radiotherapy for cervical cancer at a hospital in Guangdong province. After radiotherapy she developed a series of radiation sequelae: radiation enteritis causing bloody stools, mild anemia, and edema of the perineum…

I was born in the seventh lunar month of 1979 and will turn 47 in a month. My generation has lived through the greatest social transformation. When we were children, rural China still followed the farming patterns that had not changed for thousands of years.