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When I was in high school, I often scored full marks in math. There was a math teacher at our school who was not my own teacher but especially loved setting hard problems for me. He would often hand me a note on the road…

Verbena (Mabiancao, Verbena officinalis) is a Chinese medicinal herb that can be used to treat jaundice and ascites. I often add it to formulas for ascites, at a daily dose of 30-60 g. In Zhouhou Beiji Fang (Empostic Formulas for Emergencies) it is recorded: "For…

Dear readers, Happy New Year to you all! Another year has passed in the blink of an eye; we have lived for two full years under the shadow of the plague. These two years have been truly hard. Whether humanity can walk out of the…

I cannot put into words the storms that have raged in my heart over these two years, nor the profound suffering humanity has endured. Beginning in December 2019, when reports about brucellosis in Lanzhou, plague in Inner Mongolia, and unexplained pneumonia in Wuhan appeared one…

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, people worldwide have struggled in the maelstrom of the pandemic for two years. But now, with the emergence of new variants, we seem to see the first glimmer of dawn. I believe the hardest days may soon be behind us, and…

Humans evolved from animals, and the evolution of our minds is like inventing a new tool that still has all kinds of flaws and is not very easy to use. The uniquely human mind has its defects - one of which is that it can…

Not long ago, a family in my neighborhood moved away and left behind a large potted cactus downstairs. It was not only beautiful but also enormous. Out of curiosity, I leaned in for a closer look. The owner told me the cactus had been kept…

Scientists have found that within the same species, the larger an individual's body, the higher its risk of developing cancer. Therefore, for us humans, being tall is not necessarily better; tall people face a considerably higher lifetime cancer risk than short, slender people. Of course,…

As a child, I never imagined that most of my life would be spent in a study. Now I always feel time is too short, with many problems still needing solutions; aside from reading, thinking, and practicing, there is no better way. Cancer is a…

I chose TCM as my career purely out of fate and temperament. There was a Japanese TCM physician (in Japan called a Kampo doctor) named Otsuka Keisetsu; in the preface to his book Thirty Years of Kampo Medicine, he said much the same thing about…