Insights and Updates

Today in the library, the more I sat the colder I felt, and I ached all over, with hints of mild diarrhea. After lunch I felt I could not push on any longer, so I packed up my things and went home. This is the…

"Mishi Shiwei San" (Secret Pyrrosia Powder) comes from Feng Lao Gu Ge. The formula is simple, containing only two herbs: Folium Pyrrosiae (Shiwei, stir-fried with vinegar) 2 qian (6 g), Radix Aucklandiae (Muxiang) 3 qian (9 g). Grind the above medicines together into a powder;…

"Qutan Dingxian Tang" (Phlegm-Resolving and Epilepsy-Calming Decoction) comes from Shishi Milu (Secret Records of the Stone Chamber). Its composition is: Ginseng (Renshen) 3 qian (9 g), Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (Baizhu) 5 qian (15 g), Radix Paeoniae Alba (Baishao) 5 qian (15 g), Sclerotium Poriae Pararadicis…

The recent wave of influenza A (H1N1) has caused severe illness and even death in many patients with underlying conditions, and some of the deceased were quite young. In fact, influenza causes some patients to die every year; it is just that this recent round…

Professor Wang Xinzhi is a renowned traditional Chinese medicine physician in Henan Province, a doctoral supervisor in TCM who receives a special allowance from the State Council, and is skilled in treating brain diseases with the bowel-unblocking method. In his book Clinical Experience of Professor…

After finishing lunch today, I turned in from the south gate of the National Library into Zizhuyuan (Purple Bamboo Park) for my usual after-meal stroll. The weather was beautiful today; the sky was a deep, boundless blue. The river in Zizhuyuan was clear, with wild…

When I was a child, there was a saying in our village: "Want me to work? Wait until the morning of the 16th!" This meant that until the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Spring Festival wasn't really over. As long as the…

After more than two decades of research, the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, has developed a fully oral treatment regimen known colloquially as "AAA," consisting of oral arsenic trioxide, all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and ascorbic acid. It has shown excellent efficacy…

Because of the famous medicine Chuanbei Pipa Lu (Sichuan Fritillary and Loquat Syrup), the cough-stopping effect of loquat leaf is widely known. But loquat leaf also has a very notable effect—stopping vomiting—that few people know about. Pipaye is the leaf of the loquat tree (Eriobotrya…

Tingli Da Wan is a small, single-medicinal formula from Chen Yan's Sanyin Ji Yi Bingzheng Fanglun (Systematic Treatise on Three Categories of Pathogenic Factors) of the Song dynasty. Its composition is: Tian Tingli (sweet Descurainia seed, stir-fried with paper separating) and Jicai Gen (Capsella bursa-pastoris…