Insights and Updates

“Zhuxue Poyu Decoction” (Blood-Driving and Stasis-Breaking Decoction) is recorded in Zhao Bingnan’s Experience Collection. Its composition is: Shuizhi (Hirudo, leech) 6–12 g, Mengchong (Tabanus, horsefly) 6–12 g, Dilong (Pheretima, earthworm) 9–15 g, Zhechong (Eupolyphaga/Steleophaga, ground beetle) 6–12 g, Heichou (black Pharbitidis Semen) 9–15 g, Lulutong…

Last year, after a cold, my mother-in-law suddenly developed deafness. Because I was at school, and the elderly woman did not want to disturb my studies, she did not tell me; she went on her own to our local People’s Hospital and was treated for…

Yesterday, after I published the article “Under What Circumstances Is Prophylactic Cancer Removal Surgery Necessary?” on my blog and WeChat official account, the child of an ovarian cancer patient contacted me. She told me that when her mother was 44, because of torsion of the…

Over the weekend just past, I accompanied a cousin (a niece of my uncle) and her husband to Peking Union Medical College Hospital, where we booked a special-needs expert appointment. Our main purpose was to ask an expert from PUMCH to help us judge whether…

Zhao Bingnan’s Clinical Experience Collection includes Zhao Bingnan’s empirical formula “Huoxue Zhuyu Decoction” (Blood-Activating and Stasis-Expelling Decoction) for treating mass-type diseases. Its composition is: Danshen (Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) 15–30 g, Wuyao (Linderae Radix) 6–12 g, Jiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus) 6–12 g, Sanleng (Sparganii Rhizoma)…

Professor Hu Dayi is a professor and director of cardiology at Peking University People’s Hospital. He is a famous Chinese cardiovascular disease expert and medical educator, and has served as director of the Department of Cardiology at Peking University Health Science Center and director of…

Seeing the title “The End of Alzheimer’s,” my first thought was: what audacity—that someone dares to claim they can end Alzheimer’s disease, a condition even harder to cure than cancer. There are many people cured of cancer, but we have never heard of anyone whose…

A precancerous lesion refers to certain benign lesions or conditions that carry the potential to become malignant; if left to persist over a long period, they may progress into malignant tumors. It should be noted, however, that a precancerous lesion does not inevitably develop into…

While studying this year, I came across content in two of our major textbooks stating that caffeine is harmful to the body: one is our Physiology textbook, the other our Biochemistry textbook. Both are important foundational courses in medicine; that such content appears in the…

Wandering for three thousand years, at last he leaves his cloud-shoes on the westernmost peak. The door is shut; the beast-ring knocker gives scattered sounds. Who returns on the front steps? Who returns begging, star by star? Then an ancient, masculine voice rises in the…