Insights and Updates

Yu, a nurse at a hospital in Dalian, female, born 1967, first visited me on April 27, 2018, after two surgeries and chemotherapy for gallbladder cancer (T3N0M0), with hepatitis B. Pulse fine, wiry, and rapid; tongue coating yellow and greasy; bitter and dry mouth; discomfort…

Xiaolou Loubei San is an empirical formula of modern TCM external medicine, from the textbook Chinese External Medicine. Its composition and dosages are: Chaihu 10 g, Danggui 10 g, Baishao 10 g, Fuling 10 g, Zhebeimu 10 g, Fabanxia 10 g, Dannanxing (Bile Arisaema) 10…

Fatty liver disease is a common ailment of modern times. Mild fatty liver can usually be reversed by controlling diet and increasing exercise, but moderate or severe fatty liver requires medication. In clinical treatment of fatty liver, Professor Pei Yongqing created an empirical formula, Chaihu…

Sore throat is a very common clinical symptom. In the Shanghan Lun, the chapter "Differentiating and Treating the Pulse and Manifestations of Shaoyin Disease" contains several passages addressing sore throat, and later practitioners of throat disorders have long used their formulas. The original text of…

Several years ago I joined a hospital to do both clinical practice and administrative work. I was fortunate to be trusted enough to enter the top management and decision-making body, helping plan the hospital's development direction. At the time I put forward a vision—to practice…

Professor Li Jiren is a modern-day patriarch of the Xin'an medicine school. He has treated many cancer patients and published many case records. Here I excerpt one breast-cancer case and add brief commentary. The patient, Zhang, female, 45, a worker, first visited on November 20,…

The Fudan-Harvard Medical Anthropology Research Center once carried out a series of studies in medical anthropology and published some valuable works. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition, by Dr. Arthur Kleinman, is one of them. After reading it I reflected on many…

A patient recently came to consult me; her name was the same as a former long-term patient of mine. Because of her, I suddenly realized that, shaken by this year's pandemic, I had not been in touch with my old patient for eight or nine…

The late Professor Qian Bowen, a famous Shanghai physician, was one of China's great masters of TCM anticancer treatment. He devoted his life mainly to research on treating cancer with Chinese medicine, leaving behind much valuable experience as well as some case records worth studying.

Generally, the higher a cancer patient's education, the longer the survival. This relates to many factors: on one hand, better-educated patients have stronger learning ability and can acquire more anticancer knowledge to make up for the shortcomings of conventional treatment and improve outcomes; on the…