Insights and Updates

This year my life has grown ever simpler. At present my daily themes are only reading, writing and growing vegetables. Because of the pandemic, I have had almost no face-to-face contact for nearly half a year. I have bought quite a few e-books from online…

Purslane (Machixian, Portulacae Herba) is a common plant that is both food and medicine; wherever there is a vegetable garden, purslane grows. It is common not only in vegetable gardens but also in other fields and along roadsides. The ancients ate purslane, but nowadays, except…

Sanbaicao (Saururi Herba/Rhizoma) is an uncommon Chinese medicinal, but its history of use in medicine is long. As early as Zhouhou Bei Ji Fang (Empimeric Formulations for Emergencies), its action on edema was recorded: "For beriberi with the lower leg already swollen, leaving a finger-print…

Qingre Liangxue Decoction (Heat-Clearing, Blood-Cooling Decoction) is an experienced formula summed up by contemporary TCM practitioners for childhood purpura and epistaxis. It is composed of Shengdi (Rehmanniae Radix), Xuanshen (Scrophulariae Radix), Maidong (Ophiopogonis Radix), Zicaorong (Arnebiae Radix), Mudanpi (Moutan Cortex), Chishao (Paeoniae Rubra Radix), Baishao…

Professor Qian Boxuan was a renowned TCM gynecologist who treated many difficult gynecological conditions in his lifetime. Dr. Qian Boxuan's Gynecological Case Records preserves four cases of uterine fibroids treated by Dr. Qian, from which one can glimpse his general approach. Case 1. Su had…

Before I was 18 I lived in the countryside, and those eighteen years left a deep mark on me. To be honest, aside from being a bit hard and poor, the countryside is all right; farmers also enjoy far more freedom than most city dwellers.

Patient Feng, female, 71, from Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Acute myeloid leukemia, AML-M4E0. First visit January 1, 2020. White blood cells, platelets and red blood cells were all low; C-reactive protein was high. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate: 31 (reference range 0–20). Pulse was deep, fine, soft and…

Vaginal bleeding in women outside the menstrual period is collectively called benglou in TCM—metrorrhagia and metrostaxis. There are many causes. Modern medicine holds that female genital inflammation, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, adenomyosis, and gynecological tumors may all cause benglou symptoms. In addition, some tumor patients develop…

In TCM pattern differentiation, some tumors belong to the excess-heat type. Such patients' tumors often manifest fever, heat and swelling; they have constipation, are prone to acne and bleeding, and the pain is usually a burning or throbbing pain; some patients also have maculopapular rashes…

Liang Qichao said of himself: "Ten years of iced drink cannot cool the hot blood." Society does smooth down many people's edges, but some people's edges can never be smoothed, no matter what. I myself am a person with sharp edges; no matter how many…