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The more patients I see, the more I dislike the lifestyle of modern people. I have developed deep doubts about the customs and institutions of our society. Obviously we humans are not such clever creatures; we have made our own living environment worse and worse,…

Medicine is the most difficult discipline to study; harder than studying Chinese medicine alone or Western medicine alone is mastering both. Although many medical universities now offer a clinical program in integrated Chinese-Western medicine, teaching both, this program is not yet mature. Most hospitals do…

Professor Jiang Chunhua was a renowned late TCM physician of Shanghai and a master of the Yun Tieqiao school of integrated Chinese-Western medicine. His created empirical formula Baqi Wan has a certain efficacy in treating cirrhotic ascites. According to Academician Shen Ziyi, Jiang Chunhua's student,…

Shandougen is a Chinese medicinal herb commonly used in oncology. There are two kinds of shandougen on the market: one is guang dougen, produced mainly in Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other places; the other is bei dougen, produced in North China and the Northeast.

Today is New Year's Day, 2020. Here I wish all my readers a happy New Year! I wish that in the coming year your minds may grow more mature, and that you may live more happily and more at peace. A news item I saw…

On the last day of 2019, I decided to take stock of my own gains in medicine over the year. I want to write this article in two parts: one on my gains in medical research, and the other on my findings from studying China's…

After every incident of violence against doctors, physicians ought to draw lessons from these bloody experiences and reflect on how to change the current medical system, improve the quality of service, and raise their own professional safety. Healthcare in China is spinning out of control,…

A couple of days ago a patient came to see me. She is from Liaoning, and her whole family are intellectuals. After developing lung cancer, through an acquaintance she met a mysterious TCM doctor said to hold the status of a Tibetan-Buddhist lama. A web…

The video of Dr. Yang's murder at the Civil Aviation General Hospital has surfaced, and a note written by a colleague of Dr. Yang has surfaced too. Seeing this video and this note, I wept uncontrollably. I have not cried this bitterly in a very…

Shancigu is a commonly used anti-cancer Chinese herb, but it also has significant side effects. Over the years I have often met patients whose liver and kidney function was damaged after taking shancigu; some severely affected patients have even had their lives endangered by overdosing…