Insights and Updates

Originally written May 13, 2013. About a month ago, I accidentally discovered a very hard nodule growing inside my nasal cavity. Because I had been studying cancer in recent years, my first worry was a nasal tumor. I went to Air Force General Hospital, registered…

An elderly Western-medicine specialist, after developing malignant lymphoma, resolutely chose TCM treatment. An elderly TCM specialist, after developing esophageal cancer, resolutely abandoned TCM and chose Western medicine. These two old specialists—one was my patient, the other was the father of an online acquaintance. Having practiced…

A healthy body does not fall ill without external stimuli. Whether these stimuli are what TCM calls internal, external, or non-internal-non-external causes, or what Western medicine calls viruses, bacteria, and mutant cells, their action on the body is harmful; it is precisely because of these…

Originally written June 13, 2013. The two case reports below are from two patients I have recently been treating. The patients are still under treatment, and final results remain to be seen, but after applying the purgation method, the cancer pain in both cases was…

Waking early, I read a lecture by Professor Shi Yigong titled "The Least Important Quality Is Your IQ," and it stirred me deeply. In his lecture, Professor Shi mentioned that in his youth he was lost and adrift; not until his thirties, having reached middle…

Originally written June 4, 2013. For more than a year after my late mother passed away, I kept reflecting on the reasons her treatment failed. At the same time I was groping for experience in dealing with liver metastases and massive solid tumors. Gradually I…

On the third day after my mother died, an employee in my company whom I had valued—a student returned from studying in Germany—conspired with one of my suppliers to steal all of my company's core technical secrets, even secretly corrupting all of my company's designers…

Mr. Fei Xiaotong's From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society is my favorite work of sociology and anthropology. Fei studied under the famous anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, the leading figure of the functionalist school of anthropology. This school holds that any cultural phenomenon—whether abstract social…

The day before yesterday, a liver cancer patient came to Beijing's 301 Hospital for treatment and, by the way, visited me, hoping I could give him some guidance. Honored by his regard, I ventured to speak plainly. I pointed out that his illness of the…

Wang, female, 23 years old. She came to Beijing from Shandong seeking treatment for unexplained intractable headache and acne. The patient developed a headache whenever she dressed even slightly warmly or after exercise, and also napped and woke with headache; during attacks the pain was…