Insights and Updates

Around five in the morning I woke, opened my phone, and saw an obituary in my Moments: the father of a 15-year-old child told everyone that his child had passed away. The child was the same age as my son, a neuroblastoma patient I had…

Lu Fengfang is the nest of the yellow-legged hornet (Vespa spp.) or several related insects of the Vespidae family—what folk calls a "hornet's nest." It is also called Dahuangfengchao (giant wasp nest), Ye Fengfang (wild wasp nest), Changjiao Fengwo (long-legged wasp nest), etc. Lu Fengfang…

When Yuan Shikai declared himself emperor, his son Yuan Kewen wrote a poem, "Ganyu" (Reflections), mocking his father for being bewitched. The most widely quoted line is: "Pity the heights where storms gather; do not climb to the topmost jade tower." It cleverly reworks Su…

I still remember that when I had just achieved complete remission (the tumor had completely disappeared and cancer markers normalized), I shared in a group chat: "Don't look at the fact that I recovered on Chinese medicine—that doesn't mean you can too." I said that…

The article I published yesterday, "Most Liposarcoma Patients Have Cold Intolerance or (note: should read 'or') Low Body Temperature", drew the attention of some liposarcoma and other sarcoma patients and their families. Some patients and families sent me more information, and I discussed the issue…

Liposarcoma is a common soft-tissue sarcoma in adults and is not the same as an ordinary lipoma. Liposarcoma is a hard-to-treat malignant tumor; its prognosis depends on its location. If it grows where it can be radically excised, the prognosis after surgery is good. But…

Once neuroblastoma relapses after treatment, re-treatment becomes extremely difficult. In a child with neuroblastoma, the appearance of anemia, fever, bone pain, limping, incontinence of urine and stool, swollen orbits, protruding eyeballs, blurred vision, scalp swelling, cough, enlarged superficial lymph nodes, or difficulty breathing generally means…

Both Xiatianwu and Yanhusuo (also called Yuanhu), plants of the Papaveraceae family, are commonly used analgesics in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and their active pain-relieving constituents are alkaloids. The analgesic effect of Xiatianwu and Yanhusuo reaches roughly half that of morphine, but unlike morphine they…

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. But I'm not so sure about the universe. ——Einstein This morning, the sky over Beijing was earth-yellow. Since the Spring Festival, Beijing has basically been in a smog state, but today should be the worst day.

March 13, the first day of the second lunar month: the willow tips are already a tender green, the early cherry has opened, and the wild grass on the ground has begun to sprout. Spring has come; it is time to clear the land and…