Insights and Updates

TCM treatment of colorectal cancer may use oral decoctions, pills, powders, plasters or pellets, as well as external methods such as enema. Using Chinese herbal enema allows the medicine to reach the lesion directly without hepatic metabolism; the effect may be better and side effects…

On February 27 this year, the British Journal of Cancer published a research report on the relationship between vegetarianism and cancer, involving investigators from the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. The study analyzed pooled data on more than 1.8 million people across…

The winter vacation is over, and a new semester is about to begin. This semester will officially start on March 1 and end on July 3. During this period, national statutory holidays (the Qingming Festival, Labor Day, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and weekends) will be observed…

Alzheimer's & Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer's Association (U.S.), recently published a research report by investigators at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and other institutions. The study examined hundreds of elderly people, using non-invasive ultrasound and spectroscopy to…

The location of thyroid cancer is generally relatively superficial, making it suitable for transdermal drug delivery with external medications. Hence, TCM has long had a tradition of using external plasters to treat thyroid cancer. This article introduces three external formulas for thyroid cancer for readers'…

The Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has two fumigation-washing formulas for treating sores and ulcers, bedsores and ecthyma (chronic leg ulcers). These two formulas are reasonably composed and have definite efficacy; they are introduced here for readers' reference. Formula 1: Jiedu…

"Fuling Wuwei Wan" (Poria Five-Ingredient Pill) comes from the Waitai Miyao (Arcane Essentials from the Imperial Medical Library), which quotes from the Xu Renzel Fang. The formula consists of: Fuling (Poria) 5 liang (150 g), Renshen (Ginseng) 3 liang (90 g), Maimentong (Ophiopogon) 4 liang…

The journal Jiangsu Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2022, 23, 20) once published an external formula for treating cancer pain called "Huahua Zhentong Gao" (Cancer-Resolving Pain-Relieving Plaster). Its composition is: Shexiang (Moschus/Musk), Pishi (arsenolite, i.e. arsenic trioxide), Zhi Nanxing (processed Arisaema), Zhi Banxia (processed Pinellia),…

Around 1:40 p.m. on the first day of the first lunar month, my 76-year-old third uncle passed away after illness failed to respond to treatment. In the days that followed, we busied ourselves arranging his funeral. According to our local custom, the body should be…

The great bell first strikes, the sacred verses resound on high, reaching up to the heavens and down to the underworld. Above, may all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas bless the world with their light; below, may all beings in the dharma realm together enter the One…