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Hair loss is a very common phenomenon. Heavy life stress, abundant dampness, and chemotherapy in cancer patients can all easily cause hair loss. I commonly use five formulas to treat hair loss. The first is Qibao Meiran Dan (Seven Treasures for a Beautiful Beard). It…

The endless plum rains have turned the country south and north into a vast land of water. Waking early, I watched videos shared by relatives and friends back home showing my native place submerged, and my heart was sore. I wrote a "Lament for the…

Ouyang Xiu had a couplet: "There are books I have not read; there is nothing I have done that I cannot tell others." The couplet means that although there were still some books he had not read, there was nothing he had done in his…

Jiedu Dihuang Tang is a famous external-medicine formula from the Waike Jinjing (Golden Mirror of External Medicine). It combines Xijiao Dihuang Tang (Rhinoceros-Horn Rehmannia Decoction) and Huanglian Jiedu Tang (Coptis Detoxifying Decoction) into one. This formula clears heat and resolves toxin, cools blood and disperses…

This is a very dangerous age, with natural and man-made disasters following one after another. Viewed from the perspective of grand history, this is an age in which population, resource, environmental, economic, and political crises erupt together. In such an age, it is inevitable that…

Among patients with chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastroptosis, gastric polyps, gastroduodenal ulcer, Helicobacter pylori infection, anorexia, and diabetes, some present with dry throat and mouth, burning dull pain in the epigastrium, hunger without appetite, constipation, or retching and hiccup, a red tongue with little fluid,…

How can the clinical cure rate of TCM be raised? Although opinions differ, one point is commonly esteemed: the importance of TCM pattern differentiation and treatment (bianzheng lunzhi). But when it comes to pattern differentiation, the TCM world has had many disputes since ancient times,…

A homeless monk who has cut off desire and cast aside love, who understands his own mind-source and comprehends the profound principle of the Buddha, awakening to the law of non-action: within, he has nothing to attain; without, he has nothing to seek. His mind…

Scientists have been sounding crisis alarms about population, resources, and the environment for many years. But like the story of the boy who cried wolf, after too many shouts people have become numb and regard these warnings as groundless anxiety. Now the human catastrophe has…

Every May by the lunar calendar, pagoda tree flowers can be seen everywhere on the streets of Beijing. The Chinese scholar tree (Guo Huai) is one of the most common landscaping plants in Beijing; its streets and alleys are planted full of them. When the…