Insights and Updates

Many patients consulting TCM do not know or understand dietary prohibitions; I write this to explain. Among critically ill patients, especially advanced and terminal cancer patients, at least one-third are accelerated to death by eating and drinking recklessly. Patients and families usually do not know…

Special note: These six cases are excerpted from Fang Mingqian Linzheng Shilu (Verbatim Clinical Records of Fang Mingqian), compiled by his disciple Shuai Laifu. Some herbs used are highly toxic; do not imitate them without the guidance of a professional TCM physician, or your life…

This is an empirical formula often used by the late celebrated TCM physician Duan Fengwu. I tried it out recently myself and it is indeed effective. The Xionghuang (realgar) and other herbs in it I have used myself; applied externally they are very safe and…

Malignant tumors growing in the chest cavity, abdominal cavity, and pelvic cavity should be treated first with the purgative (gongxia) method. Today's patients are soft and spoiled; they rejoice at tonics and fear warming attack. Worse, various so-called leading experts in TCM blindly emphasize supporting…

Xiaoluo Wan (Scrofula-Dispersing Pill) is a famous formula from Yixue Xinwu (Medical Mind-Awakening) for treating phlegm-nodules and scrofula (various benign and malignant tumors and tuberculous lesions). It consists of three herbs—Xuanshen (Scrophularia), Zhebeimu (Zhejiang Fritillary), and Shengmuli (raw Oyster shell)—and treats scrofula and phlegm-nodules due…

TCM as a whole is a systematic and holistic (also "fuzzy") medicine, and in treating many diseases it has advantages Western medicine lacks. Especially its pattern-differentiation approach, when confronting diseases Western medicine cannot diagnose or treat effectively, can start from holistic differentiation, find a solution,…

For a long time, under the influence of traditional Chinese ideas, we have believed that symptoms like oral ulcers and nosebleeds are caused by "shanghuo" (internal heat); the standard countermeasures are drinking herbal tea and eating cooling foods, and Chinese patent medicines mostly use fire-purging…

When we face darkness, only we ourselves can rub our eyes bright and find the light. — Epigraph Having stayed long in cancer circles, I have gradually seen more long-surviving patients. These patients are fortunate, having lived on after cancer. Among them, certain regularities in…

Written on July 20, 2013 The six patients in this report were all personally contacted by myself, or their closest relatives, and confirmed as factual by the patients or their families. Case One (a cure): a female patient in Zhejiang developed cancer when young (the…

When treating cancer, contemporary academic clinicians habitually prescribe heat-clearing and detoxifying, blood-activating and stasis-resolving, hardness-scattering and nodule-dispersing, qi-supplementing and blood-enriching, and vital-qi-supporting and pathogen-expelling formulas. Having seen many cancer patients, the great majority of TCM prescriptions I encounter are built on large doses of heat-clearing…