Insights and Updates

Case 3: Kang, male, 37 years old. First visit October 5, 1979. Two years earlier the patient had found a thumb-nail-sized round mass on the hard palate of the oral cavity, with little pain. Thereafter the mass grew relatively fast, accompanied by difficulty swallowing and…

White blood cells are one type of blood cell and a common item in our blood-panel tests. In a normal person, the white-blood-cell count is about (3.5-9.5) x 109/L. Among our blood cells, white blood cells number only about one-thousandth as many as red blood…

With Buddhism, there has always been an insurmountable wall between me and it. So although I have read many Buddhist sutras, deeply agree with many of their philosophies, and benefited greatly from Buddhism, in the end I am still only willing to watch it from…

The Chinese medicine Bixie is the rhizome of Dioscorea hypoglauca, a plant of the yam family. The yam family plant we are most familiar with is Shanyao (Chinese yam), a widely popular food; Bixie belongs to the same plant family as Chinese yam. The stems,…

"An San San" comes from the Baoqing Newly Added Formulas in the Taiping Huimin Heji Ju Fang (Prescriptions from the Taiping Imperial Pharmacy). Its composition is: Yanhusuo (Corydalidis Rhizoma; i.e., Yuanhu, peel removed), Gaoliangjiang (Alpiniae Officinari Rhizosa, stir-fried), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma, blast-fried), Huixiang (Foeniculi Fructus,…

Professor Hua Liangcai is one of the founders of TCM andrology in China and formerly served as president of the Hainan Provincial Hospital of TCM. Professor Hua graduated from the Medical Department of the Beijing College of TCM in 1962; after graduation he stayed on…

More and more people now include gastroscopy in their health checkups, and some examination reports contain the phrase "intestinal metaplasia of the gastric mucosa." Many people cannot understand what this term means. Today I write to introduce the significance of intestinal metaplasia of the gastric…

Xinhua News Agency recently reported that a latest study has found that vertebrates can completely "regenerate from scratch" a complex lymphoid organ—the thymus—without any residual tissue. The study was completed by the team of Maximina H. Yun, senior researcher at the Capital Medical Sciences Innovation…

Repair of a surgical wound relies mainly on a cell called the fibrocell (fibroblast). As the name suggests, the main function of fibroblasts is to synthesize fibers. After an injury or surgery, a ring of proliferating connective tissue forms around the wound or incision, promoting…

Over the last three months, while studying at school, four close relatives and friends around me have one after another been diagnosed with tumors or highly suspected of having tumors; three of them have already had surgery, and afterward they naturally came to me for…