Insights and Updates

Once people have an incurable disease, they easily believe all kinds of extreme views. Eating a sweet-potato diet to fight cancer is one of them. Quite a few cancer patients have asked me whether sweet potatoes are an anticancer food and whether they should persistently…

Wen Qing San is from Wanbing Huichun (Recovery of All Diseases) by the Ming-dynasty physician Gong Tingxian. It is composed of Danggui (Angelica), Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Shudi (prepared Rehmannia), Baishao (Paeonia alba), Huanglian (Coptis), Huangqin (Scutellaria), Huangbo (Phellodendron), Zhizi (Gardenia), each one and a half…

Huoxue Sanying Tang is from the 23rd essay "Goiter and Nodules" in volume 2 of Waike Zhengzong (Orthodox External Medicine) by the Ming-dynasty physician Chen Shigong. Its composition: Baishao (Paeonia alba), Danggui (Angelica), Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium), Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Banxia (Pinellia), Shudi (prepared Rehmannia),…

Patients often ask me this; some even say that certain web articles claim anti-inflammatory drugs can treat cancer. I am writing this article to set out my understanding of the question. Cancer is sometimes called "the wound that will not heal." When our tissues (such…

Tianchan Capsule is a Chinese patent medicine commonly used in oncology. Its ingredients are: Tianxianwu (Corydalis decumbens Rhizoma), prepared Chuanwu (Aconiti Radix preparata), Chansu (Bufonis Venenum), Zusima (Daphnes Giraldii Cortex), Baiqucai (Chelidonii Herba), Qinjiao (Gentianae macranthae Radix), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), and…

Can cancer be cured? What determines a cancer patient's survival time? Early cancer can often be cured; in intermediate and late stages, cures are fewer. Treatment of most intermediate- and late-stage cancer patients (especially advanced or end-stage) should aim to prolong life and improve quality…

This morning when I got up I weighed myself: 64.8 kg. Two years ago my peak weight was 75 kg — I have lost a full ten kilograms. My height is 168 cm; my standard weight range is 55.4–67.7 kg, and I had been overweight…

"Neixiao Lianqiao Wan" is recorded in Yiji Weiwei (Subtle Meanings of Medical Orthedies). It is a swelling-resolving, nodule-scattering formula, an empirical formula beloved by the late Master Zhao Bingnan. After Master Zhao modified it, it became a proprietary preparation of the Beijing Hospital of TCM…

In the blink of an eye, eight and a half months of the Year of the Ox have passed, and over these months I have been pestering you all with an article a day for more than two hundred days. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival,…

Patient Ye, female, 64, retired worker, from Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Online video consultation on September 6, 2021. The patient had previously been hospitalized at the People's Hospital of Kecheng District, Quzhou (admission no. 0000012, ID 04099462). Discharge diagnoses: 1. Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS-EB-2;…