Insights and Updates

On the morning of April 18, 2022, I went to complete the cancellation procedure for the shared garden. That afternoon, a residential compound near the garden reported a confirmed COVID-19 case. Fortunately, the patient had been taken to a centralized quarantine point more than a…

Shengxue Bingsui Tang (Blood-Engendering Marrow-Supplementing Decoction) comes from the Shangke Buyao (Essentials of Traumatology); it is an orthopedic formula for setting bones and healing injuries, composed of Shengdi (Rehmanniae Radix Recens), Chishao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex), Wujiapi (Acanthopanacis Cortex), Niuxi…

Sun Simiao's Beiji Qianjin Yaofang (Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies Worth a Thousand Gold) records a formula called "Qipao Wanbing Wan" (Qipao's Myriad-Disease Pill). It is composed of: Niuhuang (Bovis Calculus) 1 fen, Shexiang (Moschus) 1 fen, Xijiao (Rhinocoris Cornu; one source says 1 zhu) 1…

Today I gave up the lease on that small rented vegetable plot at the foot of the hills, because I have a foreboding that my city may come under considerable pandemic-prevention pressure in May–July. My child will enter his senior year of high school after…

Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma may develop lifelong dry mouth and dry tongue after radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In the past the author also tried many methods to solve this problem, but all relied on medication. Today the author encountered a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) who…

After five and a half years of use, my laptop suddenly gave out last night. I called customer service, who told me to take it to a repair shop on Xizhimen Road today for inspection. I thought it over: a laptop's lifespan is only this…

Fu Ling Ze Xie Tang (Poria-Alisma Decoction) comes from the Jingui Yaolue (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet). The original text reads: "In stomach counter-flow (fan wei), when there is vomiting and thirst with a desire to drink water, Fu Ling Ze Xie Tang governs."…

A person should have a basic capacity for empathy and not be too indifferent to the sufferings of others. When others are in great pain, taking pleasure in their misfortune or treating a funeral as a celebration is deeply unpopular. Our Chinese ancestors had a…

The patient, Ms. Xu, female, 67, from Haiyang, Yantai, Shandong Province. Her father died of gastric cancer at 78; her mother died of a respiratory disease at 67, the specific cause unknown. One of her sisters suffered from rheumatism and stomach disease. The patient has…

After the outbreaks in Wuhan, Xi'an, and Shanghai, there were problems with broken supply chains, and ordinary people could hardly buy vegetables. China is pursuing a "dynamic zero-COVID" policy for pandemic prevention, which is unlikely to change in the short term. Ordinary residents must learn…