Insights and Updates

Recently Beijing's weather turned abruptly, and with air pollution there are many rhinitis sufferers—especially children. In my observation, roughly 20% of children have rhinitis of varying degrees. Pediatric rhinitis is mostly triggered by repeated colds treated incompletely. As to its disease mechanism, the great majority…

Many cancer patients develop the sequela of radiation enteritis after radiotherapy. Radiation enteritis is lingering and hard to heal, affecting the patient's quality of life. In clinical practice I have found that the patent medicine compound berberine tablets (Fufang Huangliansu Pian) work quite well for…

Many famous Chinese medical works emphasize that, besides taking the medicine, one should induce moderate sweating. For example, Guizhi Tang in the Shanghan Lun requires "warm covering to induce sweating"—that is, covering up with a blanket to sweat. Under the "Wuling San" entry in the…

When my father-in-law passed away in 2014, I was at his side performing CPR on him. My wife, her younger sister, and her younger brother were rushing home on the high-speed rail; I hoped to keep my father-in-law's life going until his children could come…

Few memories of my childhood stay vivid, but I have always remembered the painful way my mother would vomit up acid water on the threshold at dinnertime. My mother's stomach illness went back a long way. My grandmother had borne many children, and in the…

Once, I consulted Dr. Li—a Western physician and a lymphoma patient of mine—about the symptoms of a difficult case I was seeing. Dr. Li suspected the patient had contracted tuberculosis complicated by viral encephalitis. He told me that the infectious disease tuberculosis is making a…

So far I have encountered three non-localized cancer patients who, on their physicians' advice, all underwent palliative radiotherapy, and without exception the results were poor. In one, the disease metastasized and worsened faster while radiotherapy was being given; in another, the disease had been well…

The clearing method is a very important therapeutic principle in Chinese medicine. It is the mainstream school among contemporary Chinese practitioners treating cancer. Gao Bingjun, author of Yangke Xinde Ji and the representative figure of the "Xinde school"—one of the three great schools of Chinese…

My sister-in-law's mother-in-law had suffered asthma for many years; every attack she went to the hospital for antibiotics to control it. When she had an attack this summer, she was admitted to the county people's hospital and given penicillin intravenously. Not only did it not…

Modern life seems not to involve much physical labor, but the mental pressure is enormous—especially for young people working and living in first- and second-tier cities, where the pressure is even greater. Over time, excessive stress easily leads to depressive illness. Physical and mental health…