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With age, estrogen levels decline and the pelvic floor muscles of elderly women atrophy and weaken. When a cough briefly raises intra-abdominal pressure, the lax pelvic floor can no longer support the bladder like a "hammock," and urine is squeezed out. This is the main…

Twenty years ago, my maternal grandfather passed away. Overcome with grief and complicated by hypertension, my mother suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. She was rescued in hospital but left with some sequelae. She was then hospitalized in the neurology department of our county's First People's…

A global team led by the University of Oxford, writing in the World Happiness Report released on Thursday (March 19), analyzed data from the American polling firm Gallup and other sources and found that excessive social media use may reduce well-being. Professor Nuff, an Oxford…

In a previous article I introduced the empirical formula "Brain-Tumor Mixture" of the renowned Jiangxi physician Chen Maowu for treating brain tumors. Here I introduce two more of his empirical formulas for other benign tumors. Empirical formula for multiple lipomas: Baifuling (Poria) 300 g, Fabanxia…

It has been three weeks since I returned to school. Every weekend I go back to my home in Beijing to be with my wife and son and take care of some work matters. Since last weekend, the flowers in the north have been opening…

Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) refers to pneumonia that develops 48 hours after admission in patients who were neither admitted with pneumonia nor in the incubation period of a pneumonic infection, caused by pathogens acquired within the hospital. Surveys indicate that the mortality rate of HAP in…

Dietary therapy is an approach most people find easy to accept; it has few side effects and is well tolerated. This article introduces three dietary hemostatic recipes for readers' reference. Glutinous Rice and Ejiao Porridge Ejiao (Ass-hide Gelatin) 30 g, glutinous rice 100 g, brown…

The late Professor Wu Hanxiang was a chief physician at Shanghai Shuguang Hospital and a TCM specialist devoted to hematological diseases. Beginning in 1958, entrusted by the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, he dedicated himself exclusively to the clinical practice and research of blood disorders. Not…

Chen Maowu (1926-1994) was a renowned TCM physician of Jiangxi Province. During his lifetime he used his empirical formula "Brain Tumor Mixture" (Naozhong Heji) to treat many patients with brain tumors, with good results. The basic formula of his Brain Tumor Mixture is as follows:…

Professor Wang Chengrong (1928- ), a native of Dujiangyan, Sichuan, was formerly chief physician and researcher of gynecology at the TCM Institute of Sichuan Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and at the Second TCM Hospital of Sichuan Province. From September 1948 to August 1954 he…