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On the evening of January 22, 2022, the WeChat Public Platform sent me a message saying I had qualified for custom red-packet covers. I did not know what WeChat red-packet covers were for, nor did I plan to learn about this novelty unrelated to my…

The Zhu Chenyu Jinggyan Ji (Collected Experience of Zhu Chenyu) records Professor Zhu Chenyu experience in treating hepatolienomegaly and cirrhotic ascites caused by liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis; for details see the chapter Chronic Hepatitis and Cirrhosis in that book. Hepatolienomegaly and…

At night I was reading Professor Feynman book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, and came across his essay Cargo Cult Science, from which I gained much.Many people say they are honest and do not deceive themselves, and when they say so they truly mean…

The Chinese medicine Xuchangqing is the root and rhizome, or the whole herb with root, of Cynanchum paniculatum (Bunge) Kitagawa of the Apocynaceae family. Also known as Gu Duzhong or Shixia Changqing, it was first recorded in the Shennong Bencao Jing (Divine Husbandman Classic of…

A few years ago, a close friend recommended an acupuncturist to me and took me to his home for treatment. During the acupuncture, I noticed his needles were shared among different patients. A female patient before me had used needles that were not sterilized, and…

Only exercise that makes you sweat can truly be called aerobic exercise. In winter it is cold and people do not sweat easily, so everyone likes to hole up at home (northerners call this cating through winter) and avoid exercise. This is why the incidence…

Nearly half or more of cancer patients ask me whether they should buy some Cordyceps (dongchong xiacao, caterpillar fungus) to tonify themselves, because they have heard so many merchants promoting its miraculous effects. Moreover, when friends and relatives learn they have cancer, they give them…

Omicron is a watershed that divides the pandemic into two eras, before and after. Of course, some may feel this is not rigorous enough, but that is fine—time will prove it. No matter how unwilling humanity is, we now and in the future have to…

In his work Linzhen Yide Lu, the senior physician Ling Yunpeng recorded an empirical formula called "Xiaozhong Gao" (Swelling-Reducing Paste): 5 jin of white kaolin (or talcum powder), 1 jin of magnesium sulfate, 0.5 jin of boric acid, 3 jin of glycerin, 10 ml of…

In his work Linzhen Yide Lu (Records of Clinical Experience, People's Medical Publishing House, 2006, 1st ed., p. 15), the senior physician Ling Yunpeng recorded a small empirical formula he used for a melanoma patient: Huangyaozi (Discorea bulbifera bulb), Xiakucao (Prunella spike), and Huainiuxi (Achyranthes…