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TCM's understanding of neuroblastoma is very limited, and TCM has no advantage in diagnosing it. So TCM diagnosis and treatment of neuroblastoma must rely on relevant Western examinations as a reference. When clinical TCM doctors treat neuroblastoma, they should be able to read Western examination…

In TCM, the formulas used to treat fever differ by season. TCM holds that the human body corresponds to the four seasons, and that spring, summer, autumn, and winter each have their own climatic characteristics, so the use of medicine must vary with these different…

I have treated quite a number of children with neuroblastoma. Some, after being treated by me with pure TCM, have done very well: the tumors shrank or even disappeared, and the children enjoy a good quality of life. There are also some I could not…

Academician Wang Yongyan issued a call to the TCM community to "read the classics and do clinical practice," arguing that to cultivate outstanding TCM talent one must value "reading the classics and doing clinical practice." This is, admittedly, very sound advice. But times have changed.

Summer is the season when pediatric patients are most prone to high fever, and children with tumors are even more prone to persistent high fever. Because pediatric patients are especially liable to develop high fever from acute infections, doctors often mistakenly mistake the tumor fever…

All along, there have always been patients with advanced or end-stage cancer and their families who place great hopes in me, hoping I can work a miracle for them. Working miracles for patients is also my wish. I believe everyone who studies medicine sincerely hopes…

Last September, I went to Shaoxing, Zhejiang, to pay my respects at the hometown of a patient and close friend who had passed away. I stayed one night in his home. In the empty house he had left behind, I was all alone; my old…

There is an old Chinese saying: "Long at the sickbed, no filial son; long in poverty, no worthy wife." Lately, caring for my father, I have come to feel some truth in it. My father has a mild tendency toward late-life depression, stubborn constipation, and…

I once worked in an American-style hospital, and for a time I was an executive there. One of the hospital's investors was a physician practicing in the United States, a leading authority in cardiovascular disease. During my time there I learned things quite different from…

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