Insights and Updates

People often ask me why I require patients to come in the morning or forenoon on an empty stomach. Everyone is full of doubt about this point, which stems from a lack of understanding of TCM diagnostics, especially pulse diagnosis. In the Maiyao Jingwei Lun…

The core of medicine is safety and efficacy; medication safety concerns the patient's life and health and admits not the slightest negligence. Yet the treatment of many diseases cannot avoid toxic drugs. Used well, they cure; abused, they kill. When a doctor uses toxic Chinese…

On the third day of the first lunar month in 2019, I left my hometown because of an urgent matter. My child and his mother were still in the hometown for the New Year, visiting relatives and friends and attending various gatherings. For the month…

Until the age of forty, my life had always sought rapid growth and rapid development. Now I feel that rapid growth and rapid development go against the laws of nature; in all things it is better for a person to go a bit slower. Human…

After today, my Spring Festival is over, and the new year's work must begin again. In 2019, I pray for only one word: harmony (hé). I was born in 1979, and in 2019 I turn exactly forty. Confucius said that at forty one is free…

Today is the first day of the Pig Year. We humans domesticate pigs and eat their meat, yet we show them precious little respect; when we hurl insults at someone, the worst thing to say is "you stupid pig." Everyone wishes to be a bit…

Niubang Jieji Decoction (Burdock Muscle-Resolving Decoction) comes from the appended formulas in the first volume of Yangyi Xinde Ji (Record of Surgical Insights), and is a new formula created by Gao Bingjun, founder of the Xinde (Insight) school of TCM external medicine. The Yangyi Xinde…

Danzhuru Decoction (Light Bamboo-shavings Decoction) first appeared in the Qianjin Fang (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold). It is a derivative of Gancao Xiaomai Dazao Tang (Licorice-Wheat-Jujube Decoction) from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolüe (Essentials from the Golden Cabinet), and was later further developed by Chen…

When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, they often experience some fairly severe side effects. Chinese herbal decoctions can significantly reduce chemotherapy side effects, help cancer patients complete chemotherapy smoothly, and improve chemotherapy outcomes. In my own clinical practice, I have an empirical formula that I use…

Many people interested in TCM hope I can point out the way for them, talk about my insights in studying TCM, and guide them to enter the field. I have politely declined, for two main reasons. First, I myself am a half-full bottle, still in…