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Professor Liang Yijun was born in 1927 into a TCM family in Beijing. She served as director of the TCM Internal Medicine Department at China-Japan Friendship Hospital and was a national-level expert. In 1990 she was named by the two ministries and one bureau as…

Xiaozheng Yigan Pian (Stasis-Blocking and Liver-Benefiting Tablets) is a Chinese patent medicine. It is not covered by medical insurance and is not an OTC drug; it must be used under a doctor's prescription. Xiaozheng Yigan Pian are sugar-coated tablets made from an extract of feilian…

Shen Zhen Tong Gao (Shenzhen Analgesic Plaster) is a topical analgesic Chinese patent medicine produced by several manufacturers. It is a Class B medical-insurance prescription drug and can be purchased at insured hospitals or pharmacies. Its ingredients include: Sanqi (Notoginseng Radix), Dannanxing (bile Arisaema), Baizhi…

Danxiang Qingzhi Granules are a Chinese patent medicine whose formula is recorded in the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China. Their ingredients are: Danshen (Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix), Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Taoren (Persicae Semen), Jiangxiang (Dalbergiae Odoriferae Lignum), Sanleng (Sparganii Rhizoma), Ezhu (Curcumae Rhizoma), Zhiqiao…

He Xiuchuan, male, born 1939, chief TCM physician, graduated from the Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1962. He once served as executive vice president of the Cangzhou (Hebei) Chinese Medicine Hospital and was a supervising teacher for the second national cohort of inheritors…

My son, since childhood, has been extremely prone to sore throats, and it is hard to tell whether it is tonsillitis, epiglottitis, or both. Every time a cold or other cause brings on a sore throat, I am thrown into a panic. His throat pain…

Professor Meng Qingyun is a native of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, born in 1939. After graduating from the medical department of Harbin Medical University in 1965, he became interested in Chinese medicine during clinical work and enrolled in a Western-medicine physicians' TCM training class for two years.

Research by investigators at the University of Sydney, Australia, into constipated patients shows that chronic constipation may cause intellectual decline. The researchers believe that intestinal bacteria break down undigested protein into toxic substances such as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, histamine, and indole; these toxins are normally…

Senile dementia, also known as late-life dementia, is a severe cognitive disorder that onset in old age, often accompanied by marked impairment of social and daily functioning and varying degrees of neuropsychiatric symptoms. Patients show impairment of remote and recent memory, aphasia (difficulty understanding or…

He Yanshen, born 1922, was a native of Dongguan, Guangdong. A self-taught chief TCM physician, he served after liberation as president of the Dongguan Chinese Medicine Hospital in Guangdong and specialized in treating critical conditions such as stroke, Japanese encephalitis, and renal failure. On May…