Insights and Updates

The late great Shanghan expert Professor Li Peisheng held that a TCM scholar must be both a bookman and a physician. As a bookman, one must read widely, write much, be able to go from breadth to essentials, and digest what one reads; as a…

The Xiexin Tang (Heart-Draining Decoction) series among the classical TCM formulas can resolve some digestive tract diseases and a range of problems caused by them. The Xiexin Tang series comprises several formulas: Xiexin Tang, Banxia Xiexin Tang, Dahuang Xiexin Tang, Fuzi Xiexin Tang, Shengjiang Xiexin…

After lunch, I suddenly felt like taking some time to wander through Beijing in late autumn. So I got on a bicycle and set off from Daojugou Bridge, riding along the Kunyu River all the way to Bagou Village, where I lingered for a while…

After cancer patients undergo surgery and chemotherapy, most have a markedly deficient upright qi (zheng qi). For such patients, TCM treatment should focus on supporting zheng qi and consolidating the root, with expulsion of pathogen as a secondary measure. Even though tumor remains in their…

Many people in the world envy others’ lives, always feeling their own life is not as good as someone else’s, and must catch up with or even surpass others before they are content; as a result, their happiness is very low. Others feel that other…

There is an ovarian cancer patient whom I have been treating for some time. Over the past six months or so, every time she was tested, her CA125 rose a little. To be honest, this was quite unnerving for me, because CA125 is a very…

On October 27, 2019, I was in Wuhan, the City of Rivers. That day was the closing ceremony of the Military World Games, and the city of Wuhan was immersed in the excitement brought by an international sporting event. As a Hubei native born and…

During the Republican era, Mr. Yang Xingfo wrote a poem, Sentiment (Qian Xing): 'Yellow leaves dance in the autumn wind, white clouds drift west. Falling leaves return to the deep ravine; the tired cloud knows where to rest?' Mr. Hu Shih felt this was the…

Cancer patients easily develop complications such as pleural and ascitic effusion, pericardial effusion, and pelvic effusion. Some patients, after teaching themselves a little TCM, learn that Shizao Tang in the Shanghan Lun and Jingui Yaolue treats 'suspended fluid' (xuan yin), and so take Shizao Tang…

Sanhuang Xiexin Tang (Three-Yellow Heart-Draining Decoction) is a classical, famous formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage). Many scholars believe that the Dahuang Huanglian Xiexin Tang in the Shanghan Lun should consist of three herbs—Huanglian (Coptis), Dahuang (Rhubarb), and Huangqin (Scutellaria)—rather than…