Insights and Updates

On February 12, 2023, I published an article on my official account and personal website titled "Madengcao: A Folk Herb for Thromboangiitis Obliterans and Lower-Leg Ulcers." In it I introduced this uncommon folk remedy. In Northeast China and the folk traditions of Henan and Shandong,…

The Core Mission of Medicine: Addressing "Excess" and "Deficiency" in the Human Body Is the way of Heaven not like drawing a bow? The high is brought down; the low is raised. What is in excess is reduced; what is deficient is supplemented. Such is…

The Way of Heaven—Is it not like bending a bow? What is high is lowered; what is low is raised. What has excess is reduced; what is deficient is supplemented. The Way of Heaven reduces the excessive and supplements the deficient. The way of humanity…

A new‑conducted British study has found that merely sleeping an extra 11 minutes, doing 4.5 more minutes of moderate‑to‑vigorous exercise, and eating approximately an extra quarter‑cup of vegetables each day can reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events by roughly 10 percent. Published in the European…

A new British study finds that adding just 11 minutes of sleep a night, 4.5 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise, and about a quarter cup more vegetables each day can lower the risk of major cardiovascular events by about 10%. The study, published in the European…

My Medical Thoughts: The Wisdom of Staying Healthy and Minimising Illness The most effective, safest and also most economical health‑care solution is disease prevention. If we do not fall ill in the first place, no treatment will be needed, we run no risks from medical…

The most effective, safest, and most economical health strategy is preventing disease. If you never fall ill, you need no treatment, take no therapeutic risk, and spend nothing. Even if you do fall ill, proactive self-care can still compensate to some degree. If patients actively…

Professor Chen Danping's "Menopausal Insomnia Formula" for Treating Menopausal Insomnia Professor Chen Danping is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) gynecologist at Shanghai Jing'an District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Through years of clinical practice, he has developed several empirical prescriptions for various gynecological disorders, with the…

Chen Danping is a TCM gynecology expert at Jing'an District Hospital of TCM in Shanghai. In clinical practice he has developed several empirical formulas for miscellaneous gynecological diseases; the "Gengnian Shimi Fang" (Menopausal Insomnia Formula) is one of them. The composition of Gengnian Shimi Fang…

The Open‑source Medical Idea: Characteristic Multi‑target Therapy with Large‑scale Traditional‑Chinese‑Medicine Compound Prescriptions If readers have read from the preface up to the present section, you may well understand that the characteristic multi‑target therapy with large‑scale TCM compound prescriptions I advocate is essentially a philosophy for…