Insights and Updates

When human cells and tissues are subjected to stimuli from the external environment, they automatically make certain adaptive changes. If the external stimulus does not exceed the tolerance range of the cells and tissues, they suffer no injury; but when the intensity and duration of…

The renowned contemporary TCM master Shi Jinmo once firmly sent his senior disciple—who was also his son-in-law, Mr. Zhu Chenyu—to Kanazawa Medical University in Japan to study Western medicine. This school was the alma mater of the famous modern Japanese Kampo physician Tsumoto Kyushin. In…

According to a report in the British newspaper The Guardian, a collaborative study by the University of Nottingham in the UK and the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands showed that when participants wore a cooling vest and belt for two hours each morning…

As a renowned gynecologist, the elder physician Liu Fengwu also treated patients with gynecological tumors during his lifetime, though mainly by regulating the after-effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. He wrote an article summarizing some of his own experience and insights in treating gastrointestinal reactions after…

Vulvar leukoplakia is a chronic disease in which abnormal changes appear in the skin of the female external genitalia. It has a long course and is difficult to cure. Most cases of vulvar leukoplakia are benign lesions, but leukoplakia that lingers and is hard to…

Every Sunday afternoon around two o'clock, I set off from Beijing and take the train back to school, arriving at the classroom before Sunday evening self-study to begin a new week of study. During Sunday evening self-study I review what I learned the previous week…

Professor Pang Panchi (1918–1999) was, during his lifetime, a chief physician at Shuguang Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He had extensive experience in using TCM to support Western medicine in treating cancer, and he held distinctive views on treating radiation enteritis. Professor…

Through my work, I have come into contact with a great many people from all walks of life. Some of them are troubled by psychological distress because they cannot get along well with the outside world. To them, their surroundings are always like a thorn-filled…

Duoming Huanzhen Dan (Life-Snatching Truth-Retaining Elixir) comes from Wanbing Huichun (Restoring Health to Myriad Diseases) by the Ming-dynasty physician Gong Tingxian. It is a formula that primarily supports the righteous qi for treating stroke sequelae. In that book, Gong Tingxian says: “For stroke with paralysis…

Formula 1 (source: Jilin Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine): Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Xiangfu (Cyperi Rhizoma), Qingpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride), Chishao (Paeoniae Rubra Radix), Baishao (Paeoniae Alba Radix), Paoshanjia (processed Manis Squama; see note below), Ruxiang (Olibanum), Moyao (Myrrha), Zaojiaoci (Gleditsiae Spina), Tianhuafen (Trichosanthis Radix),…