Insights and Updates

This is a case recounted by Dr. Gong Zifu, as recorded by the famous Jiangxi TCM veteran Yao Hesheng: profuse sweating with bi-syndrome treated successfully with a large dose of Mahuang (Ephedra). Both patients in the case suddenly became paralyzed, and after a large dose…

Chemotherapy and targeted therapy are common cancer treatments. For some patients they are reliably effective, greatly prolonging survival and even achieving clinical cure. But a considerable proportion of patients develop various complications during chemotherapy and targeted therapy; nausea and vomiting are the most frequent complications…

Nowadays, as I study and practice medicine, patients often joke with me that they would rather meet me as a writer than as a doctor. They are surprised that someone who studied medicine can write so fluently, and some hope I will teach them writing.

There are three essentials to master in TCM treatment of cancer: first, supporting the right qi (fuzheng); second, expelling the pathogen (quxie); and third, symptomatic treatment. Right-supporting treatment can raise the patient's immunity and restore their strength. Most cancer patients are deficient, so supporting the…

Radiotherapy is a common and very effective treatment for cervical cancer, but it often induces sequelae, among which radiation proctitis and radiation cystitis are the most common. Radiotherapy sequelae are quite distressing; some patients are tormented by them for the rest of their lives. I…

Five Case Reports of TCM Treatment for Allergic Rhinitis Allergic rhinitis is persistent and hard to treat. Patients often have a constant runny nose and frequent sneezing; any slight change in the environment makes them uncomfortable, and in severe cases their eyes also water continuously.

Because I have long been writing articles on TCM anti-cancer treatment, readers who are interested in TCM cancer care often consult me about which books they should read to study TCM treatment of cancer. Today, without presuming to be an authority, I recommend a few…

This is an umbilical-therapy TCM formula, shared by a fellow leiomyosarcoma patient, for treating diarrhea caused by chemotherapy (chemo or targeted therapy). She herself is taking targeted drugs for her tumor, which caused side effects such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. She found this formula…

After my article "Do Not Moxibustion Recklessly" was published, people who had suffered physical harm from moxibustion came to consult me through various channels about what to do. I cannot give a uniform answer, because there is no single answer; there is only the gold…

I once met a middle-aged woman who believed an online "divine formula"—"some Banzhilian (Scutellaria barbata) and Baihua Sheteng (Oldenlandia), one iron tree leaf, and some jujubes"—could fight cancer. She bought the herbs herself and drank them for several months, ending up with liver necrosis and…