Insights and Updates

Recently quite a few patients have consulted me about seasonal summer urinary-tract infections, with the main symptom being difficult urination, and in some cases urinary difficulty. Some cancer patients worry greatly that it is a cancer complication; in fact this is a problem that ordinary…

Professor Jiang Yuren (1916-2003) was a famous TCM pediatric specialist in China; in his lifetime he was a professor at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine. Professor Jiang once treated an infant diagnosed at birth with neuroblastoma; after three years of medication he cured the child.

How to take medicine should be in the hands of the patient himself, not decided by the doctor—at least when it comes to the use of Chinese medicine, this principle should be followed. For the patient himself is the true guardian of his own life,…

Because I have recently been writing a book, in order to obtain more detailed material I have been reading many more medical monographs on cancer, among them The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Chinese translation: Zhong Bing zhi Wang—Aizheng…

Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction is an empirical formula of Wang Qingren, a physician of the Qing dynasty. It was originally recorded in Wang Qingren's work Yilin Gaicuo (Correction of Errors Among Physicians). In Yilin Gaicuo, Wang Qingren used Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction for the treatment of many…

Ji Kang, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove who throughout his life revered "transcending moral conventions and following nature," was about to be executed. Seeing that the sun was still high and the hour of execution had not yet come, he asked…

First consultation, December 7, 2017 Ms. He, female, born in 1981, a native of Mianyang, Sichuan. After graduating she went to work in Nanning and has long resided there. Married with children; office worker; does not often stay up late. The patient denied any history…

This article is organized from the content of a lecture I gave my students yesterday. Because my own level is limited and my work is busy, I have always lectured directly without preparing; so the content inevitably has many inadequate points, and I hope experts…

It is college entrance season again; in a blink, twenty-one years have passed since we finished the exam. Last night after dinner, the family went out for a walk. I asked my child's mother: "If you could choose, would you rather keep everything we have…

Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan once reported a case of partial tumor regression in a patient with stage IV hepatocellular carcinoma. The patient came to hospital in July 2005 and was found to have a liver tumor; CT showed a 5-cm liver tumor…