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What should you do if you have hepatitis B? Should hepatitis B be treated? Can hepatitis B be cured? How many hepatitis B patients eventually progress to cirrhosis or liver cancer? If hepatitis B is cured, will it not progress to cirrhosis or liver cancer?…

Opinions on the choice of cancer treatment regimens are divided, and it is hard to reach a consensus. Personally, I lean toward combined Chinese-Western treatment, because the probability of success is highest with combined therapy. But there is a subset of cancer patients for whom…

Including "processed meat products," the World Health Organization's newly released list of carcinogens contains 116 agents in total, provided for the public's reference. These carcinogens include tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, indoor coal gas, arsenic-contaminated drinking water, shoemaking and shoe repair, chimney sweeping, furniture making, iron…

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), also known as evidence medicine, is an attempt to uniformly apply scientific methods to gather evidence and thereby confirm the effectiveness of medical interventions. To this day, EBM seeks to evaluate the risks and benefits associated with various forms of medical care…

I now own a fairly large number of medical books. For a long stretch I spent over 5,000 yuan a month on average buying them—considering that this was the diamond-member price I paid ordering online, that amount would have bought roughly 8,000-plus yuan worth of…

Note: This is an old article I originally published under the pen name "Huaici Jushi." The mesothelioma patient described in it has now survived in remarkably good health for nearly four years, still able to work and live normally, vigorous and strong. In mid-October 2015…

The bright moon over the Huainan, cold over a thousand peaks; into the dark unknown she goes, no one to tend her. —Song dynasty, Jiang Kui, "Treading on Grass" (Tasha Xing) Take just these last two lines of Jiang Kui's ci-poem and read them alone;…

Some things are supremely precious, yet we often overlook them—time, for example. Time flies like an arrow, the sun and moon shuttle like a loom. Whether we wish it or not, time leaves us unrelentingly; as Confucius sighed by the river Si: "It flows on…

Old Physician Pu Fuzhou, from the passage on Guizhi Tang in the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage)—"cover warmly for about one period, until the whole body is gently, slightly sweating; it is best not to let sweat pour like water, or the disease will…

I am now simultaneously studying TCM and Western internal medicine; I cannot say I prefer either, I simply use whichever works. But when using TCM to treat disease, I pay less and less regard to its foundational theory and more to mastering drug properties and…