Insights and Updates

Using a single herb to treat disease is an ideal state, but it is not easily attained. So the common situation is that a single TCM prescription contains multiple herbs. When various herbs are combined and used together according to certain rules, that is the…

I had originally decided to take Friday off, but an unavoidable matter cropped up and I had to cancel the plan. After finishing my business and seeing my patients on Friday, I decided that no matter what I would leave the little building where I…

The first half of the title of this article is the title of an article by a senior medical elder I got to know last year; I added the second half, like a bad dog wagging its tail behind a sable, to make up this…

For a physician who treats disease with oral formulas and herbs, the basis on which he selects formulas and herbs is crucial. According to traditional TCM theory, treating disease follows the sequence of "principle, method, formula, and herb" (li-fa-fang-yao). After observing, listening-questioning, and palpating a…

1. The greatest way is the simplest Truth is half a sheet of paper; idle talk fills ten thousand books. I intend to use only one article, rather than a thick book, to set out my core philosophy of treating cancer—in truth, this philosophy is…

These are some short sketches I picked out from the WeChat Moments I have now cleared. They are basically things I wrote on the spur of the moment; deleting them would indeed be a pity. Cherishing one's old broom, when it truly comes to throwing…

Last summer, my own teacher developed shoulder and back pain after using the air conditioner, with cervical spondylosis and frozen shoulder flaring up. He came to me for a prescription, and I told him to use Gegen Tang granules (Kudzu Decoction granules). After buying the…

Over these two weeks, I have taken spare moments to clear out everything in my WeChat Moments except the links to my own articles. I deleted all the impromptu writing that ought to be deleted, and saved what was valuable, planning to organize it into…

Goethe called the "insight" of discussing art "able to enter, able to penetrate everywhere, able to go through." To penetrate everywhere is to be unbiassed; to go through is to be unobstructed; to enter and yet be able to exit, one may thus avoid being…

As my readership and patient count have grown, a large part of my daily working hours is taken up by consultations of various kinds. It is no exaggeration to say that, before this, I spent at least three to four hours every day replying to…