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I have long been researching a TCM large-formula "cocktail therapy" for anticancer treatment; one could say this is my core philosophy of treating cancer. Every day I read all kinds of Chinese and Western medical literature; whenever I gain something, I record it in an…

Drug therapy is one of the main approaches to treating malignant tumors at present, but drug therapy produces all kinds of side effects. Chemotherapy, antibiotics, endocrine drugs, immune agents and targeted drugs all inevitably have side effects; even some drugs used to relieve the side…

When I was a child in the countryside, the consensus among villagers was that reading can change fate—that reading can turn us from country folk into city folk, from peasants into educated people, so that we no longer have to face the yellow earth and…

A powder made mainly from realgar (xionghuang) and dried alum (ku fan) (or white alum, mingfan), ground together with other herbs for external application, is generally named Xiong Fan Powder (Realgar-Alum Powder). There are many formulas named Xiong Fan Powder; the main active ingredients are…

Günter Grass wrote a novel called The Tin Drum, whose protagonist Oskar keeps refusing to grow up. Strictly speaking, every one of us is a bit like Oskar deep down; many people live in childhood all their lives. This can be explained by biology: certain…

As the old saying goes: after sixty, each year is worse than the last; after seventy, each month is worse; after eighty, each day is worse. This folk saying vividly describes how, as people age, the speed of aging keeps accelerating. Aging and death are…

Hematuria is a common clinical symptom of various kidney and urinary tract diseases. In clinical practice I often have to manage patients' hematuria and have gradually formed my own experience with medication. My basic formula for treating hematuria is quite simple: plantain herb (cheqiancao) 20…

The venerable Zhao Bingnan was a famous TCM dermatological surgeon in China. He was of the Hui ethnic group, born in 1899. Zhao Bingnan's family was poor; after attending a village school on and off for six years, he could not continue his education because…

Fumigation therapy (xunliao fa) is a treatment method commonly used in TCM external medicine. Generally, ignited mulberry wood, chaff, or herbal powder (the powder rolled into a medicinal roll in thick straw paper) is used to fumigate the skin over the lesion, so as to…

At the end of the twentieth century, a WHO sample survey across 15 countries and regions found that various mental disorders accounted for as many as 25%–35% of patients in general hospitals, yet at that time the recognition rate of mental disorders among internists in…