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When the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, he beheld the five skandhas as empty and transcended all suffering. Sariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form; form is emptiness, emptiness is form. The same is true of sensation,…

Stomach pain is divided into cold pain and heat pain. Cold pain is mostly due to deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach; heat pain is due to stomach heat. Cold pain from spleen-stomach deficiency-cold should be treated by warming yang, dispersing cold, and stopping pain,…

Dear readers and fellow patients: I have completed registration today and officially begun the second university career of my life. Tomorrow (Monday) classes begin normally. Over the next few years I will no longer be a free agent but a full-time university student. I am…

Professor Wu Yichun (1918-1997) was a native of Xingping County, Shaanxi. As a boy he studied literature and history at a mission school; in 1942 he entered the National Defense Medical College and after graduation worked at the Beibei Hospital in Chongqing. He returned to…

Most mammary hyperplasia and nodules are benign, but in an age where cancer frightens everyone, benign breast hyperplasia and nodules still make many women anxious. This article introduces four commonly used Chinese patent medicines for mammary hyperplasia (breast nodules), for readers' reference. Runing Keli (Mammary-Ning…

Professor Yin Huihe once treated a cirrhotic ascites patient surnamed Li, who first visited him on March 17, 1988. At the visit the patient's chief complaints were right hypochondriac pain and fatigue for more than ten years, abdominal distension for two years, worsened over the…

Biantan Fuwan is a Chinese patent medicine produced by several manufacturers and included in the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China. Its composition includes: Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Chishao (Paeoniae Rubra Radix), Shudihuang (Rehmanniae Praeparata…

It had been a long time since I last went to Miaofeng Mountain. I am about to leave Beijing for school elsewhere, and before leaving I wanted to visit Miaofeng Mountain. So the day before yesterday I took some time off and went. I had…

Nuodaogen is the root and rhizome of glutinous rice (Oryza sativa glutinosa) of the Poaceae family. Each summer and autumn, after the glutinous rice harvest, the rhizomes and fibrous roots are dug up, washed, stripped of residual stems, and sun-dried for medicinal use. Traditional TCM…

A certain Mr. Sheng of Tianjin, around fifty years of age, developed dysphagia (ye ge). Cause: His circumstances had long been unfavorable, and he was by nature impatient and prone to liver-rage, whereupon he contracted this illness. Symptoms: At first he only felt food go…