Insights and Updates

Craniocerebral trauma and intracranial tumor compression can both cause headache, dizziness, lethargy/unconsciousness, nausea, and vomiting. Because ordinary drugs cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, ordinary formulas have poor effect on the headache, dizziness, vomiting, and coma caused by craniocerebral trauma and intracranial tumors; one must use…

Chinese folk has long had the crafts of pickling and boiling eggs. Traditional foods made by these methods—salted duck eggs, century eggs, tea eggs, and marinated eggs—are all delicious. Of course, eating too much pickled food like salted duck eggs is very harmful, because their…

Gualou Powder (Trichosanthes Powder) comes from Collected Tested Prescriptions for Abscesses (Ji Yu Bei Ju Fang). It is composed of gualou (Trichosanthes fruit, also called kelou), danggui (Angelica sinensis), moyao (Myrrh), ruxiang (Frankincense), and gancao (Licorice root). When decocting, equal parts yellow wine and water…

When a patient is desperate, they will turn to any doctor—that is human nature. Especially after being diagnosed with cancer, people become even more panicked and tend to make rushed medical decisions. Under current medical conditions, cancer patients face many choices: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine…

In the evening, the sloping road paved with countless large bluestones at the foot of Fragrant Hills has more charm than it does during the day. The tourists have all dispersed; village children play in the middle of the road. The shops on both sides…

A sophomore student wanted to study TCM with me. Because my own learning is still shallow, I always felt unworthy of being someone's teacher, so I politely declined. But after declining several times, he was still very sincere in wanting to study medicine with me…

Maxing Erchen Decoction comes from Chinese Pediatrics. It is developed by adding mahuang (Ephedra) and xingren (Apricot kernel) to Erchen Decoction (Two-Aged Decoction). The commonly used dosage is: banxia (Pinellia) 15g, juhong (Tangerine red) 15g, fuling (Poria) 9g, zhigancao (Honey-fried Licorice) 5g, mahuang (Ephedra) 3g,…

This is a case of end-stage lung cancer with multiple metastases. On May 10, 2022, the patient's family sought my help. I originally held out no hope for the patient's treatment, but unexpectedly, the patient's family contacted me happily today, telling me that the treatment…

The Chinese medicinal herb jinqiaomai (Fagopyrum cymosum) is the rhizome of Fagopyrum cymosum of the Polygonaceae family. Because its leaves resemble buckwheat and its root interior is yellowish-red, it is named jinqiaomai ("golden buckwheat"); in some places it is also called "wild buckwheat," "bitter buckwheat…

Anhui Provincial Hospital (the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China) developed a hospital preparation called "Formula 70 Ointment" in 1970. The composition and preparation method are: nuzhen (Ligustrum lucidum) leaves 250g, sesame oil 500g, yellow wax (9g in summer,…