Insights and Updates

Dear readers, patients, relatives, and friends: a week ago, on September 12, I formally gave up the admission I had obtained in this year's college entrance exam, completed the withdrawal of my file, and am preparing to retake the 2025 exam. Originally I did not…

"Bihe Yin" comes from the Gujin Yijian (Mirror of Medical Lore, Ancient and Modern), and is composed as follows: Renshen (Radix Ginseng) 1 qian (3 g), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae) 1 qian (3 g), Fuling (Poria) 1 qian (3 g), Huoxiang (Herba Agastachis) 8 fen…

It is Mid-Autumn Festival again. I wish all my readers, relatives, and friends a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and every wish fulfilled, and hope everyone stays healthy and happy. However circumstances change, I believe that as long as we love life and love living, we can…

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and other institutions recently issued a joint press release reporting that a kind of p16-positive senescent cells in bladder tissue may be associated with the development of bladder cancer. Through experiments on laboratory mice, the researchers found that, when…

At some point yesterday, standing outside the library, I looked up at the vast sky; at that moment it was an endless stretch of blue sky and white clouds. In that instant, a sense of joy from deep within welled up spontaneously. It was also…

The American Cancer Society recently published, in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a study it led showing that among U.S. adults aged 30 and older, about 40% of cancer cases and half of cancer deaths are attributable to modifiable risk factors such as unhealthy…

Qingre Gubiao Decoction (Heat-Clearing and Exterior-Securing Decoction) is an empirical formula of the modern TCM physician Wang Jiru, from his work Wenbing Chuyan. It is composed as follows: Sheng Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum, raw) 30 g, Digupi (Cortex Lycii) 12 g, Fuxiaomai (Fructus Tritici Levis) 30…

According to a Xinhua report on September 10, 2024, an international study involving Lithuanian researchers shows that slow-wave sleep helps clear Alzheimer's-related proteins from the brain's metabolic waste and plays an important role in preventing Alzheimer's disease. The paper has recently been published in the…

Recently I have finally found a study method suited to my present self. Because I have embarked on a formal educational program, I inevitably have to take one examination after another; this kind of learning is completely different from reading whatever I pleased before. I…

Oncologists are often asked by people around them whether cell-phone radiation causes brain cancer. In the past many voices have claimed that cell-phone radiation is carcinogenic, and that using cell phones, communication base stations, or communication transmitters may cause brain cancer. But a WHO survey…