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Thirty years ago, when I was still a child, two elderly doctors in our village treated everyone there; by kinship they were both my great-uncles. These two kinsmen of mine were skilled in tuina bone-setting, acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, and certain TCM external therapies. Every…

Does TCM work for cancer? This is a sharp question that arouses controversy. On the one hand, die-hard TCM fans and some ill-intentioned medical institutions will vigorously promote and exaggerate the efficacy of TCM in treating cancer, misleading patients and ultimately causing them to miss…

The late national master of medicine Professor He Puren once said that he had four teachers, one of whom was his patients. Over these years I have deeply felt the truth of his words. My patients and their families are close to me without any…

Before I met the online friend Shengdi Meiya, I had for a time doubted whether Dr. Sun Bingyan - the man so marvelously talked about in cancer circles - actually existed. One day, when I came across Shengdi Meiya in Sina's cancer-friend circle, I learned…

When my late mother passed away, I grieved deeply for a long time over her early death. As time passed, I gradually came to accept the reality. Having spent all these years in the cancer world, what I have heard and seen is nothing but…

Case One A little girl in Guizhou developed asthma after a cold, due to a residual latent pathogen in the lungs. Her cough and wheezing were severe, and wheezing could be heard. Her mother was an online acquaintance who knew my work quite well; in…

All deficiency-tax, consumptive damage and long-standing illness present with a rapid pulse. A rapid pulse cannot be taken universally as heat or as excess. The book Mai Ru states: "The rapid pulse may be yin or yang; later generations have handed down the notion that…

Shenqi Wan (Kidney-Qi Pill) first appears in the Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet), hence its alternative names Jinkui Shenqi Wan or Cui's Eight-Ingredient Pill. It is a formula of excellent clinical efficacy. Later generations derived several modified formulas from it,…

A male patient with gastric cancer and liver metastases came for consultation; it was unclear whether the stomach or the liver was the primary site. He had undergone multiple courses of chemotherapy and relapsed repeatedly, and before seeking my help he was suffering from ascites.

Malignant tumours are classified, according to the origin of their tissue cells, into carcinomas, sarcomas and blastomas. Carcinomas arise from epithelial tissue; sarcomas arise from mesenchymal non-epithelial tissue; blastomas arise from immature tissue. Sarcomas are extremely malignant and progress rapidly, often enlarging to around ten…