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Wang Qingren (1768–1831) was born in Hedong Village, Yahongqiao, Yutian County, Hebei Province. His other name was Quanren, and his courtesy name was Xunchen. From his courtesy name one can see that his parents hoped he would enter politics, establish merit, and bring glory to…

Among the famous TCM classics of the ages, my favorite is not the Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon) or Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage), which most people venerate as classics, but the Yilin Gaicuo (Corrections of Errors in Medicine), which many people do…

Whenever I have an empirical formula that I have applied with great maturity, I write it up as an article and publish it without reservation. There are other formulas that I have not yet applied maturely, or that I am still constantly improving; I will…

What prompted me to think about this question were some recent books I have been reading on the grand history of the rise and fall of "Huaxia/Chinese" civilization. Traditional Chinese medicine is a medical system that exists attached to the "Huaxia/Chinese" civilization; its origins and…

Winter colds are mostly of wind-cold nature. But if a cold drags on, or if the patient is affected by other diseases, the cold may give rise to a respiratory tract infection. At this point it can no longer be treated as wind-cold; it should…

GiftWhat a happy day,The morning mist has long dispersed, I am working in the garden.A hummingbird alights on the honeysuckle.There is nothing in this world I desire.I know of no one I need envy,and whatever misfortunes befell me I have long forgotten,thinking of the person…

The joy of hunting for books can only be understood by those who love it. Yuan Mei once said that a book is never read unless it is borrowed. In my view, for those of us who love book hunting, a book is never bought…

At the opening of his book The Art of Living, Lin Yutang wrote: "The Chinese philosopher is a man who dreams with one eye open, a man who observes life with a blend of love and ironic detachment, a man in whom selfishness and benevolent…

In Zhang Xichun's *Lvshi Lvxiao Fang (Repeatedly Tested and Repeatedly Effective Formulas)* there is a formula called "Shiquan Yuzhen Tang" (Ten-Complete Truth-Nourishing Decoction), which Zhang Xichun used to treat what TCM calls "xu lao" (deficiency-tax) and "lao zhai" (consumptive phthisis; the character zhai is pronounced…

When I was in my early twenties, I once did, for a time, a new kind of international trade—unlike traditional international traders, we found customers through the Internet. At that time I greatly admired a Chinese-American entrepreneur named Tony Hsieh; he founded zappos.com, an online…