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Cancer patients or their families often consult me about whether they should avoid certain foods while taking Chinese medicine and in daily life, and whether they need to take some nutritional supplements. This question is hard to answer in general; today I will write an…

The disease caused by excessive contact of the gastroesophageal lumen with (or exposure to) gastric juice, producing clinical gastroesophageal reflux and injury to the esophageal mucosa, is called gastroesophageal reflux; ancient TCM called this disease "ye ge" (dysphagia) or "ge shi" (dysphagia due to obstruction).

Tongqiao Huoxue Tang (Orifice-Unblocking Blood-Activating Decoction) is a formula created by Wang Qingren himself, from Wang Qingren's work *Yilin Gaicuo (Correction of Errors in Medical Classics)*; it is a famous formula for activating blood and resolving stasis. This formula has a certain effect in improving…

Wei Zheng, the famous minister of Emperor Taizong of Tang, once said: "Taking history as a mirror, one can know rise and fall; taking people as a mirror, one can know gain and loss." Wei Zheng was an elite of the ruling class; when he…

Personally, I do a few things quite well when it comes to anti-aging. I am forty-one this year, but most people who meet me for the first time mistake me for being under thirty; a few years ago I was still often treated as a…

Neixiao Luoli Wan (Interior-Dissolving Scrofula Pill) is a Chinese patent medicine made according to an ancient formula in *Yixue Qimeng (Medical Enlightenment)*. Its composition is: Xiakucao (Prunella) 8 liang; Xuanshen (Scrophularia) and roasted Qingyan (green salt) each 5 liang; Haizao (Sargassum), Beimu (Fritillary), Bohe (Mentha),…

In *Shifang Ge Kuo (Collection of Formulas as Songs)*, compiled by the renowned Qing-dynasty physician Chen Xiuyuan, there is a classic formula called "Danshen Yin" (Salvia Drink), which is a representative TCM formula for treating heart and stomach pain. The composition of Danshen Yin is…

Middle-aged and elderly people are prone to lower back and leg pain due to calcium loss, and many like to go to the pharmacy to buy calcium supplements, thinking they can improve symptoms such as lower back and leg pain and cramps by supplementing calcium.

I had long heard of the great fame of Shi Tiesheng's "I and the Temple of Earth (Wo yu Ditan)," but I had never read it. Recently, while buying books for my child, I bought his essay collection *I and the Temple of Earth*. I…

Usually, breast cancer patients need to be definitively diagnosed by fine-needle (or core-needle) biopsy or by pathology after direct surgical resection. The pathology report will include an immunohistochemical analysis, in which several markers are crucial to the subsequent treatment of breast cancer patients; these markers…