Insights and Updates

In the blink of an eye, a third of this semester has already passed. Time really flies; in just over two months, summer vacation will begin again. This semester's study and life at school have been a joy, body and mind. From Monday to Friday,…

Inflammation is the basic pathological process, predominantly defensive, that occurs in vascularized living tissue under the stimulus of various injurious factors. A typical inflammatory response includes local and systemic manifestations: the local signs are redness, swelling, heat, pain, and dysfunction; the systemic reactions include fever,…

Professor Jiao Shude treated patients with intracranial space-occupying lesions during his lifetime. Although the intracranial masses in these patients were not biopsied to confirm malignancy, Professor Jiao's treatment strategy can still serve as a reference for brain-tumor patients and for TCM physicians treating brain tumors.

I have always insisted that I am a country person, but I have overlooked the fact that I have lived in Beijing for nearly thirty years. Thirty years is long enough to change many things before one even notices. Beijing is China's capital, a city…

Mr. Shengdi Mieya and I have known each other online for over ten years. Although we have never met, we have a certain bond. A few years ago, when he felt he might pass away at any moment, he even contacted me, ready to entrust…

On April 4, 2026, the University of Oulu in Finland issued a press release announcing that its researchers had developed a fast, noninvasive new method to directly monitor changes in fluid circulation within the brain during human sleep, offering a new tool for studying how…

Dongtian Aozhi (Secret Lore of a Grotto Heaven), by the Qing-dynasty physician Chen Shiduo, is one of the great classics of TCM external medicine. In his early years Chen Shiduo traveled widely and exchanged ideas with physicians everywhere; he was especially close to Fu Qingzhu,…

The three spring months are called the season of "dispelling the stale": heaven and earth give rise to life, and all things flourish. One should sleep late at night and rise early, walk widely in the courtyards, let the hair down and loosen the body,…

Since starting clinical medicine, I have spent almost every week in the school lab: viewing cadavers, examining tissue sections under the microscope, dissecting experimental animals, doing antibiotic-sensitivity tests, and writing lab reports. Western laboratory results are plain and persuasive, and the "seeing is believing" spirit…

I recently saw a clip of the writer Wang Meng speaking; his gist was that habits matter enormously, that we should stick to good habits long-term and shed bad ones as early as possible. He is right, but it is worth pressing further: why are…