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1 Former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson had a classic saying: every person's soul should be left to himself to take care of. I have quoted this saying of his many times in my writing, because I love it so much. When I woke up this…

Deep winter and the height of summer have always been high-incidence seasons for various febrile diseases. In midsummer, febrile diseases often come on fiercely; if treatment is not timely, the patient's high fever persists and the situation becomes extremely dangerous. There are many causes of…

Angong Niuhuang Wan (Peaceful Palace Bovine Bezoar Pill) is one of the "Three Treasures" of TCM warm-disease medicine (the other two being Zixue San and Zhibao Dan). Angong Niuhuang Wan was developed on the basis of Wanshi Niuhuang Qingxin Wan. Wanshi Niuhuang Qingxin Wan is…

Case 1: Advanced ovarian cancer with pleural effusion and pericardial effusion and ascites and pelvic effusion Zhang, female, 75 years old, from Xingtai, Hebei The patient first consulted on May 30, 2018. Earlier that year, a large pelvic mass was discovered, and she went to…

Medicine is an extremely special profession. Doctor-patient disputes are widespread across every country in the world, not excluding the most developed nations. What American doctors dread most is being sued over doctor-patient litigation. In recent years, in Germany and Britain as well, medicine has become…

Guizhi Jia Zhu Fu Tang (Cinnamon Twig Plus Atractylodes and Aconite Decoction) is an important formula for treating rheumatic arthralgia. Professor Hu Xishu held this formula in especially high regard. It is also one of the two formulas I commonly use for rheumatic arthralgia; the…

June 16, 2018, the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival long weekend. At five in the morning I had already washed up, walked from home to the office I rented, which doubles as my study and workshop, practiced the qin for half an hour,…

The patient, Jiang, female, 65, had pleural mesothelioma. She first came to me on the morning of February 21, 2018 (the sixth day of the Lunar New Year); she was also the first patient I saw after the 2018 Lunar New Year. The patient had…

Dear readers: I am very sorry to announce that, due to my limited personal energy, I have made some adjustments: I am stopping updates to Weibo, WeChat Moments, and Toutiao micro-posts; my past short posts on Toutiao and Weibo have all been deleted; and, unable…

This is a female rural patient from Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, surnamed Wang, born in 1949. She is Manchu, farms in a village near Jinzhou, is married, and has one daughter. The patient was found to have lung adenocarcinoma in 2004 and underwent resection of the…