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Yuzhu San appears repeatedly in ancient TCM texts (e.g., Medical Formulas Examined, Confucians’ Duties in Serving Parents, Systematic Reflection on External Medicine). It is a classic famous formula that nourishes blood, moistens the intestines, unblocks the bowels, and drains fire. It consists of equal amounts…

Atlas of Common Skin Diseases (3rd ed.) is an illustrated popular-science monograph on dermatology edited by Yu Ruiyuan, Wang Jiabidu, Qi Jun, and others. The book has now reached a fourth edition, renamed Color Atlas of Skin Diseases, still edited by Yu Ruiyuan, Qi Jun,…

Cancer-related research advances day by day, new anti-cancer drugs emerge endlessly, and treatment options are diverse. When a doctor lays a host of options before the patient and family, how should they choose? This is a question I often face. On this question everyone who…

A few days ago I introduced the anti-cancer and other medicinal value of Kunbu (kelp). Among marine products there is another seaweed that can also be used as medicine and is often paired with Kunbu in mutually-reinforcing combination. Like Kunbu, Haizao (Sargassum) can serve both…

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute recently published a research report. After tracking 33,947 women aged 35 to 74 for 11 consecutive years, researchers found that 378 women who frequently used chemical hair straighteners were diagnosed with uterine cancer. The study showed that women…

The Chinese medicinal Kunbu is the thallus of Ecklonia kurome (family Laminariaceae) and of Eckloniaonia sp. (black Kunbu) and Undaria pinnatifida (wakame) of the Alariaceae family; it is also called haidai (kelp), haidaicai, and haibaicai. What is the relationship between medicinal Kunbu and the kelp…

Professor Zhang Renji, in Chapter 4 (“The Natural Course of Cancer”) of his book A New Approach to Treating Cancer with Chinese Medicine (Science and Technology Literature Press, August 1992), states: “Certain physical factors can also promote tumor metastasis, such as excessive massage of a…

The renowned Qing-dynasty physician Xu Lingtai described his own state of mind when treating patients as “standing as though on the brink of a deep abyss, as though treading on thin ice,” and I believe the great majority of clinicians would deeply resonate with this.

Lion's Mane Mushroom, also called Houtou Jun, Hou Jun, small-spined Hericium, or hedgehog fungus, is the fruiting body of the fungi Hericium erinaceus and Hericium coralloides (family Hydnaceae), named for its resemblance to the head of a golden snub-nosed monkey and to a hedgehog.Lion's Mane…

I have lived for more than forty years, and for the great majority of that time my life satisfaction has been very high—one might say, as satisfied as could be. This is not because I possess much, but because I want little; I have never…