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A fellow patient, whose daughter had just been born, had a gallbladder full of stones. Later, having heard of a folk remedy, she used Lygodium haijinsha 15 g, Desmodium (Jinqian cao) 10 g, and raw Chicken-gizzard inner skin (Sheng Jineijin) 10 g, one dose a…

Professor Zhao Shaoqin (deceased) was a lifelong professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, a famous contemporary TCM physician and educator, and a master of warm-disease studies. Professor Zhao was born into a family of three generations of imperial physicians; his father Zhao Wenkui was…

Professor Wang Pei's overall treatment principle for breast cancer is to begin with the liver meridian and appropriately strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidney. Professor Wang holds that, by zang-fu pattern differentiation, breast cancer basically involves three problems—liver depression, spleen deficiency, and kidney deficiency—only…

Veteran TCM doctor Wang Taiyuan, in his eighties, practices in Guiyang and also has a solid Western medical foundation. He has deeply studied the treatment of gynecological diseases and once cured a breast cancer patient using pure TCM methods. Many other female cancer patients, after…

Xiben Wan (Qi-Rush Pill) [Composition] Magnolia bark (Houpo, ginger-processed) 8 qian; Coptis (Huanglian, removed of tops, stir-fried) 1 liang 3 qian; dried Ginger (Ganjiang, roasted) 1 qian half; Cinnamon (Gui, peeled) 1 qian; Croton cream (Baidou shuang) 4 fen; white Poria (Bai Fuling, peeled) 1…

In 1998 I failed the college entrance exam. My first choice was not filled, but because my score was high, I was freely reassigned to an engineering university. Though it was a key university above the first-tier cutoff, my major was mechanical engineering and automation.

China has long had the saying "nine out of ten stomachs are diseased." People easily develop stomach problems due to improper diet, and modern people, fond of cold drinks and raw food, with irregular eating habits and late nights, are even more prone to them.

Single-herb remedies are the wisdom of folk treatment of disease, and their value deserves to be tapped. The following proven formulas suit some lung cancer patients; I reprint them here with brief commentary from a professional standpoint. Proven Formula 1: Adenophora (Nanshashen) 30 g, Glehnia…

There is a famous saying in TCM: "A folk prescription from the seaside can put a famous physician to shame." It is not at all rare for a small single-herb remedy to cure a disease that a learned famous doctor cannot. Not only in TCM—famous…

Because of my mother's cancer, I have stayed in cancer circles for ten years. Through Tianya Hospital, Sina Blogs, and QQ groups I have come to know a great many cancer patients and their families, and I constantly see anxious cancer patients and families rushing…