Insights and Updates

Wang Guowei wrote in Poetic Remarks on the Human World: "All words of scenery are words of feeling." When one lives amid scenery, the joy that fills the heart is no less than the pleasure of falling in love. When life slows down, there is…

Chushi Baidai Pills (Dampness-Expelling Leukorrhea Pills) are a commonly used Chinese patent medicine for treating leukorrheal diseases in women, mainly for leukorrhea due to spleen deficiency with excessive dampness. Symptoms include profuse leukorrhea that is white, thin and clear, or yellow and viscous, or curd-like,…

All the famous mountains under heaven are occupied by monks; from the ten directions, devotees come of themselves. Alone with my bowl I roam ten thousand li; a cloud-and-water Zen mind is free from all attachment.

Some cancer patients in the advanced stage repeatedly develop purpura on the skin. Modern medicine recognizes three possible causes: first, thrombocytopenia; second, capillary lesions; third, coagulation disorders. All three are highly likely in advanced cancer patients, so purpura frequently appears on their skin. Whatever the…

Terminal-stage cancer patients often hope that a TCM physician will perform a survival miracle for them, because Western medicine has already given up on them, and the great majority of TCM physicians also refuse to take them. But the patients' families cannot let go; they…

From time to time people ask me how one should study TCM. I am flattered that these readers think me qualified to offer guidance; some even hope I would launch online courses to teach TCM. But I am well aware of my own limited ability,…

Herpes zoster, known in TCM as "snake-coiling sores" (Shechuanchuang), is also called by folk names such as "spider sore" and "waist-coiling snake cinnabar." Immunocompromised patients are highly prone to herpes zoster, and many cancer patients have suffered from it. Once it appears, the patient experiences…

Veteran TCM physician Wang Guosan was born in 1930 and hailed from Hebei Province. He was the honorary director and chief physician of the Tangshan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Hebei. He was an early disciple of the late renowned veteran TCM physician Yue Meizhong.

Di Tan Tang (Phlegm-Scourging Decoction) comes from "Ji Sheng Fang" (Formulas to Aid the Living). It was originally a TCM formula for treating stiff tongue and inability to speak after stroke (i.e., one type of sequelae of present-day cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction), presenting with…

I like climbing mountains. Every time I reach the summit and gaze into the distance, the buildings far away look like ants, and people are like specks of dust, invisible at all; the human world seems as if it is in some distant other place.