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The late Zhu Chenyu, former director of the TCM Department at Beijing Union Medical College Hospital and a well-known veteran TCM physician, once mentioned that he had treated an elderly woman with a long-unresolved cough. She had been treated by several doctors without effect, and…

Minor Bupleurum Decoction (Xiao Chaihu Tang) and Major Bupleurum Decoction (Da Chaihu Tang) are two famous formulas from the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) by the Eastern Han dynasty physician Zhang Zhongjing. When some cancer patients develop cancer fever, Minor or Major Bupleurum Decoction…

Catherine M. Poole of the United States is a patient with malignant melanoma, a cancer that progresses to death very rapidly. After developing this cancer—known to Chinese patients colloquially as "ehei"—Ms. Catherine M. Poole, following her initial grief and panic, rose up to fight it.

Basic Common Knowledge About TCM Traditional Chinese medicine is the general term for China's traditional medicine. It is a specialized discipline invented by the ancient Chinese, which diagnoses and treats illness in patients through diagnostic methods such as inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry, and palpation…

One of the most contemptible human behaviors is brainwashing others. Two kinds of people are the most enthusiastic about brainwashing others. The first are those who, once brainwashed themselves, become puppets; driven by prejudice and fanatical, religious-like fervor, they are eager to help brainwash others.

In this life, birth, aging, illness, and death are unavoidable for everyone. Those who go a lifetime without ever being troubled by disease are truly the most enviable people on earth. But such people are extremely few. Since we humans eat the five grains and…

I People keep asking me to put together a reading list and explain how to begin learning traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). I am only a half-baked practitioner myself, so I dare not take on such a task, fearing that I might mislead others. I have…

The basic approach of TCM in treating cancer is a comprehensive strategy combining supporting the healthy qi (fuzheng) with eliminating the pathogen (quxie). Ideally, TCM cancer treatment should achieve results that both improve the patient's quality of life and inhibit the tumors and cancer-toxin within…

Moles are on nearly everyone's body, but few know that this seemingly harmless thing can one day imperceptibly undergo malignant transformation and develop into malignant melanoma, which has an extremely high mortality rate.

In traditional Chinese art theory there is a view that the "elegant" (yi) grade is the highest form of art. The highest realm of the scholar-official is likewise the recluse who achieves merit without dwelling on it. "Yi" is a pictophonetic character, composed of "rabbit"…