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A chairman of the literary federation in Leiyang, Hunan, smashed a computer, and forums and media immediately swarmed to mock and attack him. I have studied psychiatry, and based on my experience, analyzing the chairman's various behaviors, I can basically judge that he is indeed…

The Buddha was just an imperfect ordinary person. To say this among devout Buddhist believers would be to court universal condemnation. But I don't mind; I am not a devout Buddhist, only a student of Buddhism who likes the Buddha's thought. In this world, everyone,…

I hold a view, from a medical perspective, that may offend many people: being full of oneself is a disease. It is found in many devout believers, in disciples of moralistic teachers, or—as the saying goes—in high achievers and "successful people." The professional medical term…

Qian Zhongshu, that "unruly genius," once mocked so-called symposiums, saying they are "actually just inviting a motley crew of people to eat some unhygienic food, spend some murkily sourced money, exchange some insipid remarks, and hold a thoroughly incongruous meeting." Those words strike a chord…

Of power, wealth and worldly splendor, he who keeps aloof is pure; he who dwells among them yet is unstained is purest of all. Of cunning, trickery and scheming, he who knows them not is lofty; he who knows them yet does not use them…

Originally written by Zhou Zhiyuan (Huaizi Jushi) in 2012 After dealing with cancer for many years, I have gradually come to realize through practice that there are reasons why people survive long-term with cancer. Aside from those whose cancer is relatively low-grade and was found…

I rarely involve myself in the dispute between Chinese and Western medicine, because that dispute, like disputes of faith, is unlikely through all the arguing to produce any result that changes either side's position. In other words, after all the back-and-forth, one finds one has…

The origin and composition of Xihuang Wan Xihuang Wan is a very famous Chinese patent medicine for treating cancer. It is made from a secret ancestral formula of Wang Hongxu, the Qing-dynasty physician and founder of the Quansheng school of Chinese external medicine. According to…

Every person's life may have many themes, and different themes at different ages, but one theme no one can avoid: death. Death is our final destination, yet the process of dying differs greatly from person to person. Some die with ease, some in wretchedness; some…

The first is arsenic therapy, introduced by the granddaughter of a lung-cancer patient. A fellow patient she knew used this arsenic therapy for late-stage lung cancer, with marked results—the liver metastatic lesion shrank. But this therapy carries extreme risk; it is a "using poison to…