Insights and Updates

Today, watching the news, I saw two police notices. One was from the Shangcheng District Branch of the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau, reporting that at about 10:55 a.m. on January 22, 2021, the bureau received a call reporting a suspected explosive device deflagration incident on…

I have studied under many teachers, both Chinese medicine and Western medicine. From them I learned not only professional medical knowledge and skills, but also the experience of practicing medicine and conducting oneself in the world—all of it precious. The longer I myself work in…

The pandemic has rebounded in Beijing, which was within my expectations. Every protective measure we could take, we have already taken. I carefully disinfect the goods bought online and the vegetables brought home from the market, and I have stocked up on plenty of food…

Last night, while watching a movie on the movie channel with my wife, she suddenly asked me when we could live like people do in the movies—everyone no longer wearing masks, life back to normal. I told her that, thanks to modern science, it might…

Not long ago, an old classmate told me that her grandmother had asthma; she herself gathered some Lalyang in summer, dried it, and used it to make tea, and after drinking it her wheezing and coughing stopped. But when I myself had a cough and…

A couple of days ago, a female ophthalmologist a few years younger than I am told me that in her recent work she saw a patient whose son came to her office to discuss the case, asking questions while recording a video on his phone;…

I have always been controlling the rate at which my personal influence grows. Two years ago I closed my Weibo and Toutiao accounts, keeping only my WeChat official account and my personal website. In recent years people have repeatedly invited me to publish my articles…

Today the daughter of a patient with a renal pelvic tumor came to me for help because her father had run into an emergency while being treated for his tumor with Chinese medicine. The patient, then 74 years old, was found to have a renal…

In mid-January 2019, a lung cancer patient came to see me from Xinjiang. The patient had been diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2017; after diagnosis she had surgery and chemotherapy, and took Chinese medicine after chemotherapy ended. The patient had a history of cerebral…

In mid-December 2020, an old friend from Zhejiang came to Beijing and invited me out to a restaurant; I politely declined — I had not eaten out in a year. He then suggested coming to my study to chat over tea, which I also politely…