Insights and Updates

The person who compared inner displeasure to a lump of shit was my fellow disciple, Master Xianshu at Beijing Longquan Monastery. Master Xianshu said that many people know full well that discomfort is a lump of shit, yet still have the nerve to swallow it.

If I had not listened to doctors I would not be alive; if I had listened entirely to doctors I would not be alive either. ——Veteran cancer fighter Brother Bin Brother Bin was a veteran liver-cancer fighter I once wrote about, who fought liver cancer…

Both Chinese and Western medicine understand cancer as a whole-person disease. The causes that induce cancer include psychological factors and personality factors, as well as lifestyle, precancerous lesions, the natural environment, and the interpersonal environment. Therefore, treating cancer should be a systematic project, requiring holistic…

Nowadays the market is flooded with so-called positive-energy quotations. In my view, so-called positive energy is not necessarily a good thing. Most positive-energy quotations teach people how to deal with life successfully, how to do well in their careers, manage their families, and get along…

This is the treatment record of one of my patients. In 2013, after repeated Western treatments failed, he turned to TCM. He first sought treatment from a famous anti-cancer professor; when that failed, he decided to come to me. He then received my treatment on…

TCM broadly divides the causes of human disease into three categories: internal causes, external causes, and causes that are neither internal nor external. This division already existed in early TCM classics such as the Huangdi Neijing and the Jinkui Yaolue; the Song dynasty physician Chen…

Medicine is constantly advancing, and a clinician must keep learning to keep up. I have seen a large number of patients and read their discharge orders, and I deeply feel that the problem of outdated medical knowledge is quite widespread among clinicians. Some orders are…

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Professor Jiang Chunhua. I received Teacher Jiang Chunhua's education and training for nearly forty years, and I hold boundless reverence and longing for him. In 1954, Professor Jiang Chunhua joined Huashan Hospital, affiliated with the Shanghai…

If a person speaks by first considering his stance, then that fellow is suited to be a politician, because he will be supported by many who share his stance. If a person speaks by first considering reason, then that fellow is suited to be a…

An old piece, written in 2013. Zhang Jingyue said that a physician must have "the eye of an eagle and the courage of a lion." What he meant was: first, the physician must pattern-differentiate accurately; second, he must have sufficient daring. I believe this is…