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Professor Wang Pei studied clinically under Professor Fang Mingqian for twenty years and received Professor Fang's true transmission. Professor Fang Mingqian was a direct-line descendant of Zhou Shenzhai, a famous Ming-dynasty physician who treated internal damage. Zhou Shenzhai began studying medicine in middle age after…

Moxibustion is one of the important means of treating disease in TCM; it can assist—or even serve as the main treatment for—many chronic diseases. For moxibustion to achieve ideal results, accurate point selection is essential. Besides the traditional meridian-based point selection approach, there is another…

Cancer pain is a common symptom in patients with advanced tumors and seriously affects their quality of life. Western medicine treats cancer pain mainly with the "three-step analgesic ladder," dividing medication into three steps according to the patient's pain intensity. For mild pain in the…

This article introduces some Chinese patent medicines commonly used by lung cancer patients. Many of these medicines are hard to dose accurately in clinical use and are inconvenient to prepare as decoctions; making them into patent medicines is more scientific and can serve as a…

I was born in an ordinary, clan-based village in eastern Hubei. My childhood was happy. I and my childhood friends played hide-and-seek among the haystacks, caught fish and frogs in the fields, climbed trees to rob birds' nests, gathered wild fruits and vegetables, and stole…

This is a speech by Professor Shi Yigong. It is wonderfully delivered; I transcribe it in full here to encourage myself. The full text follows: Good morning, everyone. It is a great pleasure to share some of my thoughts with the graduate students here. In…

Arsenic (pi shuang) has, since ancient times, been a toxin-attacking-with-toxin drug used in TCM clinical practice. The contemporary clinician Zhang Tingdong introduced it into the treatment of leukemia. Professor Zhang Tingdong is the founder of using arsenic to treat leukemia, and his achievement is one…

As a chronic-disease patient and a student of medicine, I am aware of my own various potential risks of cancerous transformation. In the future I may die of one of many cancers—liver, lung, gastric, intestinal, prostate—because for years I have been tormented by related chronic…

Li Zhongzi (style name Shicai, hao Nian'e), a TCM physician of the Ming dynasty, showed unusual talent from youth and was exceptionally bright. Born into a scholarly family—his father was a jinshi of the Wanli era, 17th year—Li Zhongzi received a good education from childhood.

Today, together with my son, I accompanied my wife to Tsinghua University to register her student ID card. It was the weekend, and Tsinghua was thronged with visitors. Professor Shi Yigong, a scholar I admire, quietly continues his academic research and teaching life on this…