Insights and Updates

Dear young friends aspiring to study medicine: It is again the season for filling out college entrance examination preferences. Every year at this time, some among my readers ask me whether they should study medicine, and if so, how they should fill out their preferences.

On June 20, I wrote an article titled "On Severe Stroke Sequelae, the Advantage of the Large Multi-Target Compound Formula in Chinese Medicine Is Once Again Demonstrated." In that article, I introduced my recent approach to treating a certain stroke patient who, after successful emergency…

At my age, it has become the norm for the older generation to fall ill and pass away. Their sickness and departure remind me again and again that the truly valuable time belonging to me is already running short; every minute wasted is one minute…

Yesterday, while working through exercises for my major course, I came across the following multiple-choice question: The treatment of cervical carcinoma does NOT include: A. surgical treatment, B. radiotherapy, C. chemotherapy, D. immunotherapy, E. traditional Chinese medicine treatment. One could guess the correct answer even…

Professor Yin Huihe's Buzhong Yiqi plus Zhishi formula: Huangqi (Astragali Radix) 15 g, Dangshen (Codonopsis Radix) 12 g, Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) 12 g, Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium) 9 g, Shengma (Cimicifugae Rhizoma) 9 g, Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix) 9 g, Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma)…

According to the pathway by which it is produced, immunity can be divided into four types: natural active immunity, natural passive immunity, artificial active immunity, and artificial passive immunity. Among these, natural active immunity is the lasting immunity that the body itself produces after recovering…

Niuxi Wan (Achyranthes Pill) comes from Li Dongyuan's Essentials of Practical Methods (Huofa Jiyao). Its composition is: Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, wine-soaked), Bixie (Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Rhizoma), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex, fried), Roucongrong (Cistanches Herba, wine-soaked), Tusizi (Cuscutae Semen), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Huluba (Trigonellae Semen, fried), Buguzhi…

In the entry on "scrofula syndrome" (luoli zheng) in Li Dongyuan's Essentials of Practical Methods (Huofa Jiyao), there are a total of three treatment prescriptions, two of which are composed primarily of Qumai (Dianthi Herba) and Lianqiao (Forsythiae Fructus). Prescription 1: one jin each of…

Some of the "malignant superficial sores" of ancient TCM texts correspond to superficial tumors in modern medicine, while others are related to infectious diseases. Ancient TCM treated such sores mostly by external methods. One of the Four Great Masters of the Jin-Yuan period, Li Dongyuan,…

Midway last month, the daughter of a Beijing patient contacted me, hoping I would see her mother when I returned to the capital on a weekend. Because she was referred by a colleague, and because the patient had already sought treatment everywhere without effect, I…