Insights and Updates

Ge Hong of the Jin dynasty wrote a medical book called Zhouhou Beiji Fang (A Prescriptions Handbook for Emergency Use Kept at Hand). It was precisely from this book that Nobel laureate Professor Tu Youyou drew inspiration to discover artemisinin. Ge Hong's book contains many…

These days, very many people have symptoms from the Omicron variant of COVID—chills, fever, headache, sore throat, lower-back pain, body aches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, nasal congestion, sneezing, sweating, fatigue—and many consult me. In guiding everyone to solve the problem with natural therapies, I have…

These days my consultation load doubles every day, so that I can barely spare time even to write articles (because work is busy, I may be unable to update daily for a while). Almost everyone consults me because of various symptoms after being infected with…

At lunch, my son told me that five of his six subject teachers have gone down. The math teacher stuck on fever patches to teach them, these senior-year students (truly dedicated, it's touching); the Chinese teacher was severely ill and told everyone to study on…

A few days ago, the market we usually go to was locked down; reportedly a cluster infection had occurred, requiring a seven-day closure. On Saturday evening (December 10), a neighbor next door hurriedly carried a sick family member on a stretcher out to a Jinbei…

Bacteria divide once a minute, and viruses produce a new generation every 6–8 hours, so the pathogenic microbes of nature are not static. Myths often say, "One day in the cave, a thousand years in the world"—meaning a single day for the immortals is a…

Fever clinics in Beijing, Wuhan, Hebei, and elsewhere have already seen medical crunches, with people queuing for hours to see a doctor. Hospitals and clinics everywhere are packed with people getting IV drips to break fever, so that fever-reducing drugs there are nearly exhausted, and…

With the epidemic at an emergency, an anxious patient's family member contacted me, asking me to try to persuade his elderly father to get vaccinated. The old man has dealt with me for over two years and is very adherent to my advice. His family…

After pandemic controls are relaxed, a wave of panic as infections rise is quite normal. But like a tide, this panic will recede before long.As most people around us recover at home on their own, people will no longer be thrown into panic, society will…

Last night, just before bed, my younger sister asked to borrow living expenses from me. My sister is a seamstress and her husband is a renovation worker. Before the pandemic, the couple's combined monthly income was over ten thousand yuan, and in good months over…