Insights and Updates

During my college-entrance physical examination, out of a class of more than fifty students, nearly ten were found to have hepatitis B; unfortunately I was one of them. Fortunately I had only the "small three positive" (minor HBV carrier state), and over more than ten…

Patient Hairuo developed acute intestinal obstruction due to interventional therapy and tumor effects. At Sichuan Provincial Cancer Hospital, after multiple interventions failed, the patient suffered abdominal distension and pain from the obstruction, gradually intensifying to unbearable agony. The attending physician proposed surgery to resolve the…

Serene Remaining Years (QQ nickname Bin) has passed away. In the eleventh year after his liver cancer diagnosis, he left this world peacefully. I have known Brother Bin for nearly four years, beginning when he started following my blog. Brother Bin also wrote a blog…

This title comes from a line in Cai Gen Tan (Discourse on the Vegetable Root). I am deeply grateful to that book; it drew me out of a state of stagnant water. It made me understand why Mr. Liang Shuming turned from a Buddhist believer…

People often ask me why good people seem more prone to cancer. After my mother died of cancer, someone said to me, "It's true—good people don't live long, while villains live forever." This was no mere comfort; my mother really was a good person. She…

What does the Buddhist saying "not arguing over right and wrong is liberation" mean? There is an old anecdote behind it, involving the famously eminent Tang-dynasty Buddhist masters Hanshan and Shide. One day Hanshan asked Shide: "When the world reviles me, bullies me, insults me,…

This is a collation of an old piece; I do not know the year, month, or day it was written. Today I saw the report that Yu Dan, the national-studies "super girl," was booed off the stage by Peking University students. Coincidentally, some time ago…

This is the case record of Dr. Li Zhonghui, a lymphoma patient I treated. After copying out this record, I treated Dr. Li myself for over a year; then she moved, and it became inconvenient for her to come to me, so for a while…

Many cancer patients are indeed very deficient, and families, frantic with worry, tonify recklessly: renshen (ginseng), dongchongxiacao (cordyceps), lurong (pilose antler), lingzhi (reishi mushroom)—especially the deceptive broken-wall reishi powder, reishi spore powder, and ginsenoside extracts; merchants spare no means, and despite repeated expert debunking that…

For patients with advanced abdominal tumors, Zhao Shaoqin advocated slow treatment with pills. Below is a pill formula he left for such patients, from Zhao Shaoqin Linzheng 400 Fa (400 Clinical Methods of Zhao Shaoqin), p. 54. Xuanfuhua (Inula) 15 g, Danggui 30 g, Chishao…