Insights and Updates

There are now many glib talkers in the TCM world who readily use the phrase "cancer was long ago conquered by Chinese medicine" to fool patients and their families, in pursuit of their own ulterior motives. They mislead patients and their families, delay the best…

Overview of breast cancer An increasing number of patients are troubled by breast cancer, which ranks as the number one tumor among women worldwide. Every year about 1.2 million women develop breast cancer and 500,000 women die of it. North America and Europe are high-incidence…

Origin and morphological characteristics of CephalotaxusCephalotaxus, also called feizu (plum yew), is an evergreen tree. Its branchlets are opposite, and its winter buds are terminal. The leaves are arranged spirally in two rows, linear-lanceolate, slightly curved, with white stomatal bands on the underside. The flowers…

Those who choose TCM to treat cancer must not overlook the role of decoctions (tangyao). Modern pharmaceuticals are highly developed, and a great many patent anti-cancer Chinese medicines (zhongcheng yao) have appeared. Many patients, when they accept TCM treatment, take only patent medicines, and after…

China is a populous and diverse country, and it is not easy to make yourself heard there; unless you hold an extreme view and shout it from the rooftops, few people will pay attention. After Professor Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or…

Once, when I went to a pharmacy I often frequented to buy medicines, a pharmacist there told me of a very simple little remedy for ascites: take equal parts of fresh ginger and jujube (dazao), and make them into pills the size of a phoenix-tree…

Han culture has two features: one is valuing face; the other is abundant strife. Relatives and friends care most about face; to keep up appearances, they often swell up their faces and pretend to be fat. As for strife, even trifling matters are dragged back…

The Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) is one of the TCM classics; its full name is Shanghan Zabing Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases), comprising the Shanghan Lun and the Jinkui Yaolue (Essentials of the Golden Cabinet). Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghan Lun raised…

Today, the most exciting news for Chinese people is that the pharmacologist of Chinese materia medica Tu Youyou has won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This is the first time a scientist based in China has won a Nobel science prize. The Nobel…

This is the case record of elderly TCM physician Wang Taiyuan treating a stage 3C ovarian cancer patient, Liu. The patient was found to have ovarian cancer in 2010; postoperative pathology showed stage 3C, i.e., middle-to-late stage. After two years of taking Wang's herbal medicine…