Insights and Updates

In the conventional understanding of most people, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is usually associated with obesity. But this "common sense" is actually wrong: it is not only fat people who have fatty liver; fatty liver is also very common among non-obese people. A systematic…

In 1975, Professor Zhu Chenyu participated in a consultation to rescue a late-stage patient with cirrhotic ascites. The patient had already developed hepatic encephalopathy (hepatic coma): confusion, incoherent speech, agitation and violence. Western medicine measured a very high blood ammonia, and the condition was already…

I do not know whether this is unique to my generation or a common phenomenon among the Chinese people of our several generations, but when we were children in school, we were indoctrinated with a dream that one day we would liberate the toiling masses…

TCM prescribing emphasizes variation with the seasons. Different seasons bring different climates, which exert seasonal effects on the human body, so TCM uses different seasonal herbs in different seasons. For example, the seasonal herbs commonly used in summer include Huoxiang (Agastache rugosa), Peilan (Eupatorium fortunei),…

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of online medical consultation. While the volume of online medical inquiries has surged, outpatient visits at tertiary hospitals have dropped by more than half. So how reliable is online medical diagnosis, really? There are as yet no large-scale…

I have dealt with tens of thousands of cancer patients. The overwhelming majority of long-term surviving cancer patients are optimistic and active people—or those who were not like that before but became so after getting cancer. The truth that life lies in movement is correct;…

One of my teachers runs a clinic in my hometown county town, using both Chinese and Western medicine to treat various common diseases. Last year (2019), I went to visit him and sat in his consultation room waiting for him to finish seeing patients, but…

The pandemic rages, public opinion boils, and politicians around the world shift the blame, tell lies, and blow their own trumpets. The news makes one want to throw up. As an ordinary citizen, I am helpless against all of this—we have nothing but dissatisfaction, yet…

Both Isodon (Xiangchacai, Rabdosia japonica var. glaucocalyx) and Isodon trichocarpus (Maoye Xiangchacai), which belong to the Lamiaceae family, have anti-cancer effects. Among them, the leaves of Isodon trichocarpus are also called Silenggan (Four-Ridges Stem), while Isodon is used with both stem and leaves together; its…

Professor Zhu Chenyu (deceased) was a disciple of Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous physicians of Beijing. After graduating from high school, Zhu Chenyu studied TCM under Shi Jinmo for six years, and was then sent by his teacher to Japan to study modern…