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For a normal person, more than ninety percent of our time is spent in a very familiar environment, day after day repeating the same life. Even if we occasionally travel and leave our usual place of residence for a while, such occasions are after all…

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. I wish every reader a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and may all go well with you! Thank you so much for your support and company over the years. When I was myself ill, I felt the support of readers from all…

In the Yifang Leiju (Collection of Medical Formulas) there is a formula quoted from the Xianchuan Jiyin Fang (Immortal-Transmitted Formulas for Women) called Xiaotong Wan (Pain-Eliminating Pill). The formula consists of 5 qian (15 g) of dried lacquer (Ganqi), 1 liang (30 g) of galangal…

Danggui Moyao Wan (Dong Quai-Myrrh Pill) comes from Chen Ziming's Furen Daquan Liangfang (Complete Effective Prescriptions for Women) of the Song dynasty; in the Shengji Zonglu (General Records of Divine Assistance) it is also called "Danggui Wan." The formula consists of 30 g of Angelica…

Ginger is an ingredient familiar to every one of us; it is the dried rhizome of Zingiber officinale, a perennial monocotyledonous herb of the Zingiberaceae family, Zingiber genus. Ginger was used as medicine in traditional Chinese medicine at a very early date. The ginger commonly…

In Chen Jie's Huisheng Ji (Collection of Life-Reviving Prescriptions) of the Qing dynasty there is a formula called "Diyu Yin" (Garden Burnet Drink) for treating intestinal abscess of the large and small intestine. The formula consists of 500 g of garden burnet root (Diyu), 60…

The formula of Yangxue Shengfa Capsule (Blood-Nourishing Hair-Growing Capsule) comes from Volume I of the 2005 edition of the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China. Its ingredients are: prepared rehmannia root (Shudihuang), Angelica sinensis / dong quai (Danggui), Notopterygium (Qianghuo), Chaenomeles fruit (Mugua), Sichuan…

Colleagues and patients repeatedly ask me how one should go about learning to fight cancer with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). I am writing this article to share some of my own reflections. One thing I should state in advance: I am not an authority in…

For an INFP personality, the best way to heal is solitude. Even when covered in wounds, after a month or two alone he can fully heal himself, sweeping away depression, anxiety, grief, impulsivity, and other negative emotions. In healing himself, he reads widely, opening one…

The title of this article is an idea Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, the Japanese physician, kept preaching in his later years. The same profession makes me deeply agree with it. Physicians have essentially only two missions: first, to prolong the patient's life as much as possible;…