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In Inner Mongolia there is a herbal medicine called Kudouzi (bitter bean), which belongs to the legume family. Its root, whole herb, and seeds can all be used medicinally. The root is called Kudougen, the whole plant Kudoucao, and the seed kernel Kudouzi. Kudouzi is…

As people age, the brain degenerates. The recent memory of the elderly is generally poor, but long-term memory may not be much affected. This leads children to be misled by their parents' clear long-term memory into mistakenly thinking the parents' recent memory is also good;…

About ten years ago, an asthma patient came to me for treatment of his asthma, accompanied by his wife. Her dark eye circles were especially prominent, so striking that one could not forget them. After finishing the consultation and treatment for her husband, I casually…

On January 30, 2023, a report in Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao mentioned that the National University of Singapore had recently held a global ethics lecture on the topic of "how to fairly and justly allocate medical resources," delivered by Professor Ezekiel Emanuel, a U.S. health-policy scholar…

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, I walked into the reading room of the National Library. Beneath the medical bookshelf, the first book I happened to open was called The Mad Heart, a popular-science book about cardiac function. The first sentence in…

To study human homeostasis, the American physiologist Walter Cannon's The Wisdom of the Body is a book one simply must read. Precisely because of Cannon's contribution, modern biology lists homeostasis and irritability as two of the six characteristics of living things (specific organization, metabolism, homeostasis…

Whenever I fall ill myself, I am always very reluctant to take medicine. For a cold I use heat therapy, and for a cough I rely on rest. Of course, I rarely fall ill either; although my constitutional foundation is not all that strong, because…

The peak of the epidemic and the peak of severe illness in our country have both passed, and the medical order has returned to normal. Many patients with various underlying illnesses should most appropriately go to the corresponding specialty for care, yet they still—as they…

After the Spring Festival, especially after returning to Beijing from my hometown, I began to feel that my body is not as good as before. The most obvious sign is that my heart occasionally feels faintly uncomfortable; the cardiac discomfort also makes my hands feel…

Zhi Zhu Tang comes from Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber). In the section "On Pulse Patterns and Treatment of Water-Qi Diseases, Chapter 14," it is recorded: "Hardness below the heart, as large as a plate, with a rim like a…