Insights and Updates

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, I left my hometown for Wuhan, planning to continue from Wuhan to Beijing the next day. My family saw me off to the high-speed rail station. On the way, my father said to me: "Don't throw…

Today I have returned from my hometown in Hubei to Beijing. Starting tomorrow (the sixth day of the first lunar month), I will resume normal work. Because the first wave has passed and both the infection peak and the severe-illness peak have receded, my work…

Patient Chen, male, 81 years old, a native of Gutian, Fujian. On December 26, 2022, the patient caught COVID, with fever of 38.5°C, clouded consciousness, and inability to recognize family members; he was admitted to Gutian County Hospital, Fujian. CT at Gutian County Hospital showed:…

COVID has now damaged the heart and brain blood vessels of many middle-aged and elderly patients. Based on my recent clinical medication insights, I have provisionally devised a pill formula for those who had pre-existing cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease that worsened after COVID infection, or…

Case OnePatient Xia, a native of Weihai, Shandong, now 87. She was diagnosed 20 years ago with arteriosclerosis and heart disease; in 2014 she had coronary bypass surgery with two stents implanted, and she felt the bypass surgery did not improve her clinical symptoms. In…

Today is the first day of the Year of the Rabbit, and I am here to wish all my readers a Happy New Year. I wish you all the smoothest of sailing in the new year. I pray that in the Year of the Rabbit…

At noon on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, I finally returned to my long-absent rural hometown. Seeing me, my old father's joy was beyond words.After lunch, my father, my son, and I—three generations—took incense, paper spirit money, firecrackers, and offerings to the…

Some patients recovered from COVID now develop numbness of the hands and feet and lower back pain as sequelae. In TCM this belongs to the bi (impediment) syndrome and can be treated with modified Huangqi Guizhi Wuwu Tang.The formula is: raw Huangqi (Astragalus) 10 g,…

Recently I have treated many patients with viral pneumonia due to the COVID virus (many of them with white lung), as well as some patients with coronary blockage presenting with chest tightness and chest pain, and some cerebral-infarction patients presenting with dizziness and headache. I…

Patient Zhao, 80 years old, from Peishe Village, Wenxi County, Shanxi. The patient's mother died of cor pulmonale. The patient has no bad habits; his personality had become irritable over the past year due to a cerebral infarction. He had rectal cancer surgery 10 years…