Insights and Updates

Many patients who consult me mention that their hands and feet are cold, saying they have read some TCM books and watched health experts on television, and learned that cold hands and feet are a sign of yang deficiency, requiring warming-tonifying drugs or foods to…

Some cancer patients keep blogs; for the purpose of researching cancer, I often visit their blogs. One patient I followed for a long time—although she was not my patient—I hoped to learn lessons from her treatment regimen. When she reached the terminal stage, out of…

The liver is the body's second-largest vital organ and its largest gland, weighing about 1.36 kg and accounting for 1.5%–2.5% of body weight. The liver is the largest digestive gland in the body, with important and complex metabolic functions. The liver has a dual blood…

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, I received a box of Bletilla (Baiji) seedlings sent by a friend. I had nowhere to plant them, but a dermatology chief physician I have known for years, Dr. Li, had—after seeing me lease land for…

After learning that a classmate of mine had died young, a close friend told me that her older sister was born in the same year as me and studied at Peking University Law School as an undergraduate; among her sister's cohort at Peking University Law…

A Mao's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. This illness completely changed her life, and she became depressed. She hoped I could help her resolve not only her physical suffering but her spiritual suffering as well. On the day she first came…

Araceae plants are not uncommon; many of us have contact with them, though we may not know their origins. For example, the common houseplants we grow at home, such as the sago palm (Alocasia odora) and the Swiss cheese plant (Monstera deliciosa), are Araceae plants.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, when relatives and friends were exchanging New Year greetings by phone, I was shocked to learn that a former classmate had passed away in August 2020 at a hospital in Wuhan after failing to respond to…

The patient, Ms. Xiong, female, a myeloma patient born in 1955, from Guangxi. She was diagnosed at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (admission no. 1508503) with multiple myeloma (IgG-kappa type, with myeloma bone disease), pulmonary infection, hyperlipidemia, chronic gastritis, gallbladder polyps, senile…

Every Lunar New Year, the expensive incense in temples sells at a premium; there are truly too many people burning incense and praying to Buddha for blessings. But misfortune and blessing have no fixed gate; people bring them on themselves. If one creates an evil…