Insights and Updates

Mustard greens are the tender stems and leaves of Brassica juncea and Brassica juncea var. gracilis of the Brassicaceae family. They come to market from May to October and are sold in most vegetable markets across the country. Mustard greens have a slight bitterness, but…

Chief physician Wan Wenmo, born in 1923 and a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province, worked at the Wuhan Ninth Hospital. He specialized in treating liver cancer and cirrhosis, and had a characteristic formula for liver cancer called "toad oil": one live toad, eviscerated and washed,…

Xiaojin Wan (Xiaojin Pill) is a family secret formula handed down by Wang Hongxu, a famous physician of the Qing dynasty. It disperses nodules and reduces swelling, resolves stasis and stops pain. Xiaojin Wan can be used for initial-stage yin-type ulcers with unchanged skin color,…

Several years ago, I saw a patient with ovarian cancer in Putian, Fujian Province. After she developed bloody ascites, guided by a local villager, she foraged fresh Chinese herb Xiaoji (Herba Cephalanoploris) and stewed it into soup to drink. Each time she used about 250-500…

"Jing bing" (convulsion disease) is a specific TCM term. Its main symptoms are rigidity of the neck and back, convulsion of the limbs, even lockjaw and opisthotonus. Clinically, its common syndrome feature is tension and contracture of the muscles and tendons; it may present as…

Every morning at four o'clock I get up and begin reading and working through practice questions. Around six, as the city's schoolchildren and working people gradually rise and wash, I have already been studying at my desk for two hours. Between six and eight, apart…

Between March 1982 and March 1990, Dr. An Maobin of the Qingdao Cancer Hospital treated four cases of brain glioma by applying Wang Qingren's modified Tongqiao Huoxue Decoction combined with western medical therapy, with notable clinical efficacy. The Chinese medicine empirical formula he used was…

Qingre Tiaoxue Decoction is recorded in the Gu Jin Yi Jian (Medical Mirror Ancient and Modern). It consists of Mudanpi (Cortex Moutan), Shengdihuang (Radix Rehmanniae), Xiangfu (Rhizoma Cyperi), Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis), Taoren (Semen Persicae), Yanhusuo (Rhizoma Corydalis) and Baishao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), each 3…

"Tongyu Jian" comes from Jingyue Quanshu (Complete Works of Zhang Jingyue), an empirical formula of the Ming-dynasty physician Zhang Jingyue. It is composed of Dangguiwei (Tail of Radix Angelicae Sinensis) 2-5 qian (6-15 g), Shanzha (Fructus Crataegi), Xiangfu (Rhizoma Cyperi) and Honghua (Flos Carthami) each…

Chaijie Jiedu Wan (Chai-Guided Toxin-Resolving Pill) is a formula I created for treating COVID infection. The composition is: Guizhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi) 10 g, Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae) 10 g, Renshen (Radix Ginseng) 10 g, Zhi Gancao (processed Radix Glycyrrhizae) 6 g, Baishao (Radix Paeoniae Alba) 10…