Insights and Updates

Occasionally, you pass through my life, just like the tide rising and falling, raising ripples when you come, silent and still when you go. This is fine too, like flowers blooming and falling, like spring departing and autumn arriving, letting me see flowers in full…

Love life, and life will repay us with boundless joy! — Epigraph Professor Ren Yingqiu once said that a person cannot truly understand TCM before the age of sixty. As I grow older, I increasingly understand and agree with his words, and I grow fonder…

Xiao Chaihu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction) comes from the Shanghan Lun. Among the indications treated by Xiao Chaihu Tang is cough. But the causes of cough are very complex, and not all coughs are suitable for treatment with Xiao Chaihu Tang. The Shanghan Lun has…

There is a gentleman from Inner Mongolia who came to know me through an introduction by an acquaintance. When someone in his family fell ill, he came to me. The first patient he brought me was a lung cancer patient. In only a month or…

I deal with a crowd of pessimists—cancer patients, depression patients, Buddhist believers. Yet I am still so optimistic, haha! Thank heaven for letting me use my smile to encourage them! Long ago, my elder brother evaluated me this way: a blind optimist. My elder brother…

1. A few words at the head of this article The Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon) is one of the four great classics of TCM and the foremost of the medical canons. Across the dynasties, many TCM theoretical systems were built and expanded on…

1. Love has no boundaries The healer has no boundaries. The longer one studies medicine, the more one is able to cross every kind of "boundary." There are no national boundaries; all people are citizens of the Earth. Promoting narrow nationalism and racism is ignorant…

This began when I opened my Moments one morning and saw a post from a Buddhist monk among my WeChat friends, which read as follows: "Dawn is always indescribably beautiful. Why can a thing fully reveal its beauty? Because there is enough space. It is…

This was a patient with acute exacerbation of COPD leading to obstructive emphysema, cor pulmonale, cardiopulmonary failure, respiratory acidosis, right-sided pleural effusion, and interstitial lung disease. The patient was the mother of a friend who has long been on good terms with me. When sent…

Over these years, those who have come to me for consultation include not only patients with physical illness but also patients with mental illness, and even patients with various twisted personalities. Some problems I can help them resolve; some I cannot. Because some problems have…