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The child, a certain Zhang, aged 2, from Shandong Province, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in that province in August 2020, and later treated at the Shanghai Children's Medical Center (patient no. 64709985). The child's parents first contacted me on December 27, 2020, seeking my help.

Case 1: Mr. Gong, a lymphoma patient from Hubei Mr. Gong is from Zigui County, Yichang, Hubei Province. On April 1, 2021, he first consulted me via online video to resolve his postoperative diarrhea and to prevent tumor recurrence. The patient reported that his diet…

A certain Chen, female, aged 84, presented with abdominal distension. On April 9, 2021, she underwent a CT examination at the radiology department of the Yunan County People's Hospital, Yunfu, Guangdong (CT no. 110818). The diagnosis was: 1. Occupying lesion posterosuperior to the uterus, considered…

Among the Dowayo people of Cameroon in Africa, the polite greeting when meeting is as follows: “Today, is your sky clear?” “Very clear. And you?” “My sky is clear too.” People in the English-speaking world greet one another like this: “How are you?” “Fine, thank…

The Chinese herb Zaoxiu is the dried rhizome of Paris polyphylla var. chinensis, Paris polyphylla var. yunnanensis, or Paris polyphylla (family Liliaceae); its common names also include Chonglou and Qiyeyizhihua. In different regions it also has many aliases, such as Ziheche, Baiheche, Luosiqi, Dengtaiqi and…

The British anthropologist Nigel Barley wrote a book titled The Innocent Anthropologist, which mainly recounts the author's two periods of fieldwork among the Dowayo people of Cameroon in Africa. In this book, Nigel Barley tells a joke. He says that when he was about to…

A small number of cancer patients develop vasculitis during chemotherapy because of the irritation of blood vessels by chemotherapeutic drugs. Vasculitis causes patients great suffering; when severe, it can destroy the limbs, with unbearable pain that makes it hard even to walk, leaving the patient…

My deepest childhood memory is of bedwetting. No matter how much I told myself before sleep that tonight I absolutely must not wet the bed, I would, unfortunately, always do so. I kept wetting the bed until near graduation from primary school, and for that…

“Be cautious not to unite with sensual forms; once sensual union occurs, misfortune arises.” — From The Sutra of Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha Mr. Zhang Zhongxing said that the most important relationship in the human world is the relationship between the sexes. This…

The Chinese herb Guijianyu is the winged branchlets or winged appendages of Euonymus alatus (Thunb.) Sieb. of the staff-vine family (Celastraceae), also called Guijian, Liuling or Simianfeng. Euonymus alatus grows mainly in mountainous wild country and is distributed in China's Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi,…