Insights and Updates

I previously wrote an article, "An Outline of Professor Shen Shaogong's Approach to Treating Malignant Tumors," introducing his main approach. Now I present his case records of treating malignant tumors, to learn how he treated them. This article presents two of his cases of esophageal…

Professor Shen Shaogong was the 19th-generation inheritor of the renowned TCM "Shen family gynecology"; his ancestor Shen Yaofeng's Shenshi Nüke Jiyao is a classic of TCM gynecology. The Shen family had practiced medicine for generations and accumulated rich clinical experience. Professor Shen worked in teaching,…

Professor Jiao Shude was born in May 1922 in Xinji City, Hebei Province. In his early years he studied Chinese medicine under his maternal grandfather, studying the classical medical texts and repeatedly reading the TCM classics Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon), Nanjing (Classic of…

Butiandao Dazhen Wan comes from Yixue Xinwu (Medical Mind Awakened). In that book it is a dedicated formula for consumptive deficiency. Its composition is: Renshen (Ginseng) 60 g; Zhi Huangqi (honey-fried Astragali Radix) and Chao Baizhu (fried Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), each 90 g; Jiu Danggui…

After a period of adjustment, my routine at school has finally settled. I leave campus for home on Friday and return Sunday evening, then stay on campus without leaving the gate for a whole week. I rise at six every morning, run for half an…

Zhang Xichun's works include 8 case histories of ye-ge (dysphagia); all 8 were treated with Zhang Xichun's empirical formulas Shenzhen Peiqi Tang, Shenzhen Zhenqi Tang, or a combination of the two. Shenzhen Peiqi Tang formula: Lu Dangshen (Codonopsis) 6 qian, Tianmendong (Asparagi Radix) 4 qian,…

Yinchenhao Tang comes from Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) of the Han Dynasty. The formula is composed of: Yinchenhao (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba) 6 liang (one Han-Dynasty liang converts to 15 g today), Zhizi (Gardeniae Fructus) 14 pieces, Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma,…

The human body has four basic tissue types: epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle tissue and nervous tissue. Epithelial tissue, or simply epithelium, is composed of a large number of regularly shaped, closely packed epithelial cells with a small amount of intercellular substance, and functions in…

On Saturday after dinner, I went to the National Library as I used to. The main hall of the new National Library building was under renovation and had been cordoned off, making the scene look a little unfamiliar. I had not been inside the National…

The patient was a 60-year-old man surnamed Gao, who first consulted senior physician Zhang Xijun on February 5, 1978. The patient had suffered epigastric pain since he was 20 years old (40 years earlier); the pain often flared when he ate slightly too much or…