Insights and Updates

The pandemic is worsening day by day. I had originally stocked up on more than a month's worth of food, but after seeing the situation in Shanghai this time I was still somewhat taken aback; I had not expected a first-tier city to be so…

In the general outline of Taiyang disease in the Shanghan Lun there is this passage: "In Taiyang disease, if there is fever and thirst, and no aversion to cold, it is a warm disease. If, after promotion of sweating, the body is burning hot, it…

The patient, Ms. Shi, female, 65, from Laoshan, Qingdao, Shandong Province, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021. On October 16, 2021, a PET/CT scan at the local Zhouxin Medical Imaging center (exam no. PET00001894) showed: 1. A left thoracic mass with unevenly elevated FDG…

On April 8, 2022, Professor Cai Shang's group at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, China, published a paper in the internationally authoritative journal Cell, once again confirming the existence of bacteria inside tumor cells and demonstrating for the first time that bacteria unique…

Lately I have been reading a little Song-dynasty ci poetry every day, which seems rather out of step with the times. Everyone else is preoccupied with the pandemic, while I am absorbed in Song ci—somewhat numb, it would seem, unaware of the world's sufferings. In…

Huaruishi (Ooids Lithos) is an ore medicine with hemostatic action, first recorded in the Jiayou Bencao (Jiayou Materia Medica) of the Song Dynasty. Huaruishi is mainly a composite of marble formed from the mineral calcite and serpentine. When ancient TCM used it as medicine, it…

When Professor Liu Duzhou lectured on the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage), he mentioned that Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) can harmonize the nutritive and defensive aspects externally, and harmonize qi and blood, and regulate the spleen and stomach internally. Master Liu said that…

One moment we are in the world; the next moment we are beyond it. Or, while in the world we behave as though beyond it, and while beyond it we behave as though still in the world. One can always move in and out with…

Whether for a society, a family, or an individual, it is said that three stages are inevitably traversed: the passionate ferment of exploration, the plainness of holding on, and—after prosperity—the reflection and settling that return to life's depths. In this final stage, we inevitably take…

Professor Shao Changrong was one of the pioneers in China of integrated Chinese-Western medicine for lung disease. Shao originally studied Western medicine, then responded to the national call to "study Chinese medicine as a Western-medicine physician," undergoing three years of full-time TCM study, and thereafter…