Insights and Updates

Si Wu Tang (Four-Substance Decoction) first appeared in the late-Tang book "Prescriptions for Treating Injuries and Restoring Bones Handed Down by an Immortal" by Lan Daoren. It was a famous formula of TCM orthopedics and traumatology, with the actions of activating blood and resolving stasis,…

Introduction This is an excellent speech given by CCTV anchor Bai Yansong at the "Peking University Health Science Center Medical and Health Management Forum and the 100th-Session Alumni Gathering of the PKUHSC Hospital Management Advanced Training Program." Addressing hundreds of hospital administrators, Bai Yansong vividly…

Infertility may be primary or secondary. Primary infertility is hard to treat, while secondary infertility is relatively easier. Generally speaking, primary infertility mostly belongs to insufficiency of original yang and a constitutionally deficient endowment; in ancient TCM it was called "total childlessness" (quan wu zi).

Low white blood cell counts during chemotherapy are a common phenomenon among cancer patients. White-cell-boosting injections are both expensive and have significant side effects. They mainly work by stimulating bone-marrow hematopoietic cells to speed up white-cell production in order to maintain immunity. If used long-term,…

The human navel, in TCM, is also called the Shenque acupoint (Spirit Gateway point). Moxibustion and external plasters applied at the Shenque point can treat many diseases. Skillfully applying TCM's eight-principle pattern differentiation, plasters made from Chinese medicines applied externally on the navel can let…

There is a Chinese saying: "It is easier to change rivers and mountains than a person's nature." Once a character has formed, it is very hard to change, which is why people often say: character determines destiny. But in the course of studying medicine and…

My wife was thirty-four years old, pretty and plump, fond of meat. Looking at her reflection she sighed that her figure was not what it used to be and could not help envying slender ladies. Urged on by old university classmates, she secretly took diet…

Many years ago, a patient with advanced liver cancer, after ineffective integrated Chinese-Western treatment at an authoritative Beijing hospital, returned to his hometown at his wits' end. He was unable to urinate or defecate, was extremely weak, and in great distress. His daughter, unable to…

I have long regretted that TCM is called the "slow physician." People say TCM is slow only because they have not encountered cases of TCM treating acute emergencies. In clinical practice I often encounter emergencies, and they are quickly resolved, saving patients at the very…

I. Peeling Hands Many friends know the bleeding and pain caused by peeling palms are distressing; sometimes even holding a fountain pen hurts. It affects not only appearance but also work, especially when trees bud in spring and shed leaves in autumn — peeling twice…