Insights and Updates

At each entrance to the reading rooms of the National Library there is a security gate, whose function is to shut out the noise from outside the reading room. So once we step into the reading room, even if just a few meters beyond the…

Professor Wang Yunqi is a chief physician and department director in the TCM and Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine Department of Hunan Cancer Hospital. From his clinical practice he has worked out a set of formulas for treating (or preventing) the side effects or sequelae of radiotherapy…

Zhang Xichun, a famous physician of the integration-of-Chinese-and-Western-medicine school in the late Qing and early Republican periods, had two empirical formulas for treating scrofula: one was the orally taken "Xiaoluo Wan" (Nodule-Resolving Pill), and the other was the externally applied "Xiaoluo Gao" (Nodule-Resolving Paste). The…

"Shuxiong Pian" is a modern patent Chinese medicine recorded in the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China. The formula consists of: Sanqi (Notoginseng Radix) 100 g, Honghua (Carthami Flos) 100 g, Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) 200 g. The above three herbs are made into tablets…

Historically, several formulas have been named Tong Ge Wan; the Tong Ge Wan introduced in this article comes from the Yuyuan Fang (Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy). The formula consists of Binglang (Arecae Semen) 3 liang (90 g), and Cha Chao Zhishi (bran-fried Aurantii Fructus…

Drug-induced kidney injury (DIKI) refers to structural and functional damage to the kidneys caused directly or indirectly by drugs or their metabolites. It is one of the common causes of hospital-acquired (iatrogenic) acute kidney injury (AKI), and in severe cases can progress to chronic kidney…

Kidney disease refers to injury to the kidneys caused by various factors. It leads to changes in the physiological structure of the kidneys and impairment of renal function. Generally, kidney diseases can be classified by the cause of injury into primary and secondary kidney diseases,…

Doctor Feng Zhirong, former president of the Zigong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Sichuan Province, treated a 64-year-old breast cancer patient who sought his help on December 10, 1998 for radiation pneumonitis caused by post-operative radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer. At the visit, the…

Zeng Jinde, a TCM physician from Quanzhou, Fujian, has an empirical formula for treating lower-limb edema, as follows: Sheng Huangqi (raw Astragali Radix) 30 g, Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) 10 g, Yimucao (Leonuri Herba) 30 g. This formula is concise and exquisite. According to traditional medicine,…

Professor Wang Shaohua, a renowned senior TCM physician of Jiangsu Province, treated a case of edema caused by nephrotic syndrome using a combined medicinal and dietary approach. This treatment method is well worth learning from, and the author respectfully uses his case to explain this…