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Da Huoluo Wan and Xiao Huoluo Wan are both classical famous TCM formulas for treating impediment pain, and both have certain anticancer and analgesic effects. Da Huoluo Wan comes from "Lantai Guifan" by the Qing-dynasty physician Xu Lingtai. It is made into pills from Baihuashe,…

Professor Yin Huihe developed an empirical formula specifically for various hyperplastic diseases, called "Shugan Sanjie Fang" (Liver-Soothing Nodule-Scattering Formula), which has shown good clinical efficacy in treating hyperplastic diseases of internal medicine, surgery and gynecology. Old Yin's formula uses Danshen, Chishao and Sheng Muli to…

The Chinese soft-shelled turtle is all treasure: both turtle shell (biejia) and turtle blood (biexue) can be used as medicine, and both have antitumor effects. Besides antitumor action, turtle shell and turtle blood have other effects. This article mainly introduces the anticancer action of turtle…

I love reading Jin Yong's novels because the characters Mr. Jin Yong portrays are very real. The human world is a jianghu, but in the end this jianghu originates within our own hearts. If there are no waves in our hearts, however great the storms…

Every year in the fifth and sixth lunar months, Beijing's streets and lanes bloom with scholar-tree flowers. The Chinese scholar tree is one of Beijing's main landscaping trees; people who have long lived in Beijing must feel affection for the groves of scholar trees by…

Among the cancer patients I have seen over the years, those who survive longest are almost all optimists. From my own experience, patients who fret easily not only do not recover easily but also handle family and doctor-patient relationships poorly. In every word and deed…

"Summer Reflections" A thousand books in the home, idly tilling half a plot of field.My heart's affairs I entrust to the zither, lodging them in this world.Not striving to be first under heaven, I keep to diligence and frugality.In the morning I plant a few…

Neuroblastoma (NB) is known as the king of pediatric tumors and is extremely difficult to treat. Neuroblastoma originates in the sympathetic ganglia or the bilateral adrenal glands; it is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood. Epidemiological studies suggest the following factors may promote…

Professor Yin Huihe (1923–2012) was one of the towering figures of contemporary Chinese TCM. His father Yin Bingzhong was a famous physician in southern China. Professor Yin Huihe read medical books with his father from childhood, absorbing the tradition by osmosis, and was keen to…

Zhuye Shigao Tang comes from the "Shanghan Lun." The "Shanghan Lun" describes its indication as follows: "After cold damage has resolved, the patient is emaciated and deficient with scant qi, with counterflow qi and a desire to vomit; Zhuye Shigao Tang governs it." The original…