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Starting today, I am entering New Year's Day holiday mode. After a hard year, I really do want to rest, so the website and official account will stop updating for a few days. Wishing all readers a Happy New Year! Thank you for your continued…

Friends often come to me who, upon finding cysts, polyps, or nodules as small as a few millimeters on a physical exam, become deeply worried as if disaster had struck. This is quite unnecessary; most cysts, polyps, and nodules are benign and have no potential…

The world is not perfect; evil is often difficult to punish, justice is difficult to uphold, and the fate of warriors is mostly tragic. But those warriors who uphold justice are exactly the people I deeply admire from the bottom of my heart. Although out…

"Wuzhi Anzhong Yin" originates from Experienced Prescriptions. It has the actions of nourishing the stomach and generating fluids, harmonizing the middle and lowering counterflow. It can be used for dysphagia (ye ge) belonging to the fluid-deficiency and heat-accumulation pattern. Symptoms include choking and pain upon…

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that arose in the early 1990s. Its formation and development have had enormous impacts on medical research, clinical practice, medical education, and health policy decision-making, and it has been widely applied in healthcare, scientific decision-making, and scientific…

Anyone who has spent time in an oncology clinic understands that, in a sense, it is a very depressing place. Perhaps the most telling sign is young residents who constantly tell their colleagues: "I don't want to be an oncologist, because every patient we treat…

Since ancient times, humans have continuously sought effective medicines from naturally occurring toxic substances, and with considerable success. Today, the highly toxic arsenic trioxide is used to treat leukemia; vincristine, extracted from the toxic Madagascar periwinkle, and paclitaxel, extracted from the equally toxic yew, have…

Menopausal women often experience dizziness and headache, lightheadedness and vertigo, fatigue and weakness, sore lower back and weak legs, paroxysmal hot flashes (sometimes even with burning heat and sweating), occasional coldness, sometimes vexation and spontaneous sweating, a pale tongue, and a deep fine pulse. Dizziness…

Chunze Tang comes from Shiyi Dexiao Fang (Effective Formulas to Benefit Physicians), and is an empirical formula for treating vexed thirst with a desire to drink together with difficult urination. The original text mainly uses it for summer-heat damage with vexed thirst and uncontrolled drinking,…

The formula Suoquan Wan first appears in Chen Ziming's Furen Liangfang (Good Prescriptions for Women) of the Song Dynasty. According to the original text, the formula uses only equal parts of Yizhiren (Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Fructus) and Wuyao (Linderae Radix), ground into a fine powder, formed…