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In clinical practice, I have found that some cancer patients suffer from excessive sweating. I have tried several methods with modest success, and so I write this article to recommend, for your reference, the antiperspirant herbs and formulas I commonly use. Yupingfeng Granules The patent…

Today I saw a set of figures released by the International Labour Organization: the novel coronavirus has already put more than 1.2 billion people out of work worldwide, and the situation is still developing. In the period ahead, even more people will lose their jobs.

People often ask me: do tumors progress faster in spring? Intuitively, there does seem to be such a phenomenon; every spring, some cancer patients' tumors do indeed progress rapidly. But without data to support it, we cannot firmly conclude that cancer develops faster in spring.

Recently I have read a large amount of medical material and historical documents concerning plague. Plague may be the infectious disease with the greatest impact on humanity in history; it has claimed countless lives and caused several population collapses in history-on many occasions killing more…

This year is the only year since my mother's death that I have not gone back for Qingming to tend her grave. What I cannot be sure of is whether next year and the year after I will be able to go back. Someone told…

Former Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said that before taking up a post he went to ask his teacher, Mr. Ji Xianlin, for instruction. Old Master Ji gave him a phrase: "Do not speak falsehoods; do not speak the whole truth." Master Ji is a national-studies…

In 1940, Chen Gaonong published A Table of Natural Disasters and Calamities Through China Dynasties. From ancient works such as the Zizhi Tongjian and the Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Chen Gaonong compiled a chronicle of plagues in China. Drawing on his compilation, this article lists the…

Yesterday the blossoms filled every bough with red; today the flowers have fallen, leaving ten thousand branches bare.Their lush flourishing relied on the beauty of three springs; their change and emptiness follow upon one night's wind.Time beyond the material world is originally its own to…

My father has been very depressed lately. This old farmer, who lived his whole life in the Hubei countryside, now lives with me in Beijing, yet his heart is forever set on our rural hometown in Huanggang, Hubei, and on how hard this year has…

My wife's salary was cut this month, and her housing provident fund has been delayed in coming; my own income has dropped by more than half. We still have debts and a mortgage to pay, so money has begun to tighten. The impact of COVID-19…