Insights and Updates

As early as two or three years ago, patients who had used PD-1 began reporting its side effects to me, and I myself have participated in diagnosing and managing some of the adverse effects seen in cancer patients on PD-1. I hesitated for a long…

Today is Youth Day, also the centenary of the May Fourth Movement. One hundred years ago, our nation was in calamity. A band of hot-blooded youth shed their blood and laid down their lives to save the country and its people, sacrificing themselves to relieve…

Today is the seventh anniversary of my mother's death. After she died, I kept vigil by her grave in my hometown for a while. I had originally meant to do the three-year grave-mourning, but with elderly parents above and children below to support, I had…

Dr. Liang Xiuqing was born into a TCM family that had practiced medicine for nine generations. He was a renowned senior TCM physician of the early post-Liberation period, practicing in Shanxi and Hebei and enjoying an excellent reputation in both. During the Cultural Revolution he…

In 1894, when Asada Sohaku—hailed as the last giant of Japanese Kampo medicine—died, the medical and Confucian scholars of Japan all deeply mourned this grandmaster of Kampo (Chinese) medicine. On the day of his funeral procession, shops along the route spontaneously closed their doors; commoners…

Shugan Hewei Wan (Liver-Soothing and Stomach-Harmonizing Pill) is a Chinese patent medicine I use often—inexpensive (Tongrentang's small water pills cost less than ten yuan a bottle) but quite effective. According to TCM theory, it belongs to the qi-regulating category of formulas. The ingredients of Shugan…

What should I pay attention to in my diet? Which foods cause cancer? Which foods help my condition? What foods should I avoid while on medication? What kind of exercise can help me fight cancer? Can qigong help fight cancer? Does tai chi have an…

"Not eating after noon" (wuzhuo bushi) is a Buddhist tradition. Ever since the Buddha taught "one meal at midday, one night beneath the tree, and never more" (in the Sutra of Forty-two Sections), "eating at the wrong time" has been a Buddhist precept. If a…

Because the case record of every patient I treat is very long, and because a single patient's case record can easily mislead readers into thinking that the plan for every patient is something that can be copied onto other patients. So in this article, from…

CA125 (carbohydrate antigen 125) is an important tumor marker. Elevated CA125 expression is common in many malignant tumors, including ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and mesothelioma. Among them, ovarian cancer and mesothelioma are often accompanied by tumor complications such as cancerous wasting. In some patients the…