Insights and Updates

A friend consulted me: a relative of his had chronic atrophic gastritis, and a TCM physician included Chuanlianzi (Fructus Toosendan) in the prescription for pain relief for two months, causing hepatotoxicity that landed the patient in the hospital as an emergency. Chuanlianzi has slight toxicity.

Some patients, once diagnosed with cancer, think of nothing else day and night. When taking Chinese herbs for cancer, they want to drink them all 365 days a year; missing even one dose leaves them uneasy. This belief is wrong. Even in treating cancer with…

This is part of a case I treated for a long-time reader of this blog; the patient is still doing well. The patient, a 43-year-old man, had peritoneal mesothelioma. When he first came to me, his CA125 was 66.47 (normal reference 0–35), with multiple hepatic…

Ideas make people weak; instinct makes them strong. — Zhang Xianliang After living through some of life's partings and deaths, I have come to love this saying of Zhang Xianliang's. It has cured me of my various "mental ailments" and moved me from idealism toward…

I have personally encountered several cancer patients treated by an elderly TCM physician surnamed Wei in Beijing, who has since disappeared from the profession. The therapeutic results were quite satisfactory; some patients survived for a very long time after his treatment and maintained a good…

Parted in life at Qingming, parted by death at Guyu At 11:40 a.m. on April 23, 2014, my father-in-law, after suffering his third stroke, passed away despite emergency rescue efforts. When my father-in-law breathed his last, my wife's younger brother and I were at his…

If it hurts, it is not free-flowing; if it is free-flowing, it does not hurt. This saying is often quoted, and in TCM tumor treatment many physicians make blood-activating and stasis-resolving an important treatment principle. But applying this method to cancer has many hidden dangers.

The lung governs the body's respiration; in treating lung cancer, priority should be given to protecting the body's great qi. This is a lesson I summed up after failing in several lung cancer cases—a truly bitter lesson. In lung cancer treatment, qi-moving and qi-breaking herbs…

The human body is subtle and unfathomable, the hardest thing in the world to fathom. Thus, although humanity has lived on earth for millions of years and science and technology have grown magnificent, physicians' understanding of the human body is still only partial, and the…

Lately I have seen so many cervical cancer patients that I cannot answer everyone's inquiries individually. I therefore write an article on cervical cancer treatment, hoping it may help cervical cancer patients. Among cancers, cervical cancer is relatively speaking not the most fearsome; most cervical…