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Professor Wang Xiru, former chief physician of internal medicine at the Chongqing Institute of TCM, once treated a patient with cirrhotic ascites. The patient, Gong, was a 53-year-old man whose abdominal distension had progressively enlarged over more than three months; examination confirmed decompensated cirrhotic ascites…

Baokening Keli (Precious-Calmness Granules) is a modern Chinese patent medicine preparation. Its herbs include: perilla leaf (zisuye), mulberry leaf (sangye), Peucedanum (qianhu), Zhejiang fritillary (zhebeimu), Ephedra (mahuang), Platycodon (jiegeng), processed Arisaema (tiannanxing), tangerine peel (chenpi), bitter apricot seed (kuxingren, fried), Scutellaria (huangqin), indigo (qingdai), Trichosanthes…

Jingzhi Kesou Tanchuan Wan (Beijing-Prepared Cough, Phlegm, and Wheeze Pill) is a well-known cough-relieving Chinese patent medicine; its formula is a typical large TCM compound. Its composition includes: Peucedanum (qianhu), Cynanchum stauntonii (baiqian), bitter apricot seed (kuxingren, peeled, fried), mulberry leaf (sangye), Ephedra (mahuang), Pinellia…

The patient was a man born in 1951, from Yichang, Hubei Province. Because a relative of his—an ovarian cancer patient I had treated long-term with reasonable results—had referred him, he came to me for help. The patient first came to me on September 29, 2020.

The patient was a 74-year-old woman, the mother of my junior-middle-school classmate. On April 12, 2023, she went to Wuxue City First People's Hospital in Hubei Province (outpatient no. 2304131004) because of severe liver pain. Radiological examination (image no. CT0230413001) showed multiple slightly hypodense lesions…

The veteran TCM physician Wang Xiru, former chief physician of internal medicine at the Chongqing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, once treated a patient with late-stage gastric cancer suffering from persistent hiccups using Ye's Stomach-Nourishing Decoction (Ye's Yangwei Tang), an empirical formula of the Qing-dynasty…

When you have walked through the storm alone, you are no longer the person you were. — Epigraph The college entrance exam is over, but today I still used the Maimemo vocabulary app to keep memorizing words. After finishing today's words and checking in on…

This year's national college entrance exam (gaokao) is over, and the experience did not go smoothly for me. The day before the exam, June 6, my elderly father accidentally fell and fractured a bone, and was admitted to hospital. I took him to the hospital,…

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Gujin Yijian (Medical Mirrors Ancient and Modern) contains a formula called "Yixian Dan." Its composition is: Cyathula (chuanniuxi) and Clematis (weilingxian), in equal parts. The herbs are ground together into a fine powder; refined honey is used as an excipient to form pills the size…