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Liu Miao Yin (Six-Marvel Drink) comes from the Ming-dynasty physician Sun Wenyin's Dantai Yu'an (Jade Records of the Cinnabar Platform). Composition: Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium), Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma, processed with ginger and alum), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, stir-fried in ginger juice), Zhiren (Gardeniae Fructus, stir-fried in…

Huisheng Gao (Life-Returning Paste) comes from the Jiyan Liangfang (Effective Formulas Collected for Relief), compiled during the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty. Composition: Chuanbeimu (Fritillariae Cirrhosae Bulbus) 8 liang, Mao'er Yanjingcao (Euphorbiae Helioscopiae Herba) 1 jin, Xiakucao (Prunellae Spica) 1 jin, and sesame oil…

Beyond inexhaustible truth there is no authority. And of truth, on the one hand, anyone may pursue it; on the other, no one may say he possesses the final truth. — Karl Jaspers Today I saw a joke. Someone asked on Zhihu: why is it…

In the act of giving, continually explore the unknown self, continually discover new aspects of the self, and persevere to the last moment of life. For this goal a person is bound to meet many difficulties. But the greater the difficulty, the more you will…

I walk down the street / There is a deep hole in the sidewalk / I fall in / I am lost ... I am helpless / It isn't my fault / It takes forever to get out. I walk down the same street /…

Children with neuroblastoma often develop leg pain as the disease progresses. I have used many formulas to address their leg pain; after screening, three have proved effective in practice. All three are historically proven formulas for leg pain, not my own inventions. The first is…

In the Shaoxing supplementary formulas of the Taiping Huimin Heji Jufang (Taiping Peaceful Benevolent Dispensatory Formulary) there is a formula called Qisheng San (Seven-Wonder Powder). It consists of: Xuduan (Dipsaci Radix), Duhuo (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex), Bixie (Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Rhizoma),…

Every negative thing has its positive side, and every positive thing has its negative side, because all things under heaven contain their opposite. If we fix our eyes on the negative side of things, then even if we owned the four seas and were enjoying…

Darkness can glow; silence can speak; quiet surpasses a thousand words. — Epigraph Reaching midlife, we feel ever more strongly that time returns everything we have to dust. Our elders leave us one after another; among our own generation, people too have begun to bow…

More than ten years ago, a cervical-cancer patient came to me for help. She was already critically ill: severe intestinal obstruction had left her unable to pass stool for over a week, and excruciating pain was more than she could bear. She was hospitalized in…