Insights and Updates

Liu Duozhou treated a woman with cough and panting who had to sit upright to breathe and could not lie flat (lying flat made the cough worse). The cough was frequent, with profuse sputum and chest fullness, gurgling sounds in the chest, white greasy tongue…

I don't know since when life changed its original course; more and more trivial matters needed handling, and time was cut into countless fragments, so my visits to the library grew fewer and fewer. After the pandemic began, the library switched to a reservation system,…

According to Xinhua News Agency, the Butantan Institute in Brazil recently issued a press release stating that a team participating in the institute studied a venomous spider from the coastal region of São Paulo State, Brazil. Within this spider's venom they discovered a polyamine substance…

In *Records of Pattern Differentiation* (Bianzheng Lu) by the Qing-dynasty physician Chen Shiduo, there is a formula named "Anshen Dan" (Spirit-Pacifying Pill). Its composition is: 15g each (5 qian) of white peony root (Baishao), unprocessed rehmannia root (Shengdihuang), and Chinese angelica (Danggui); 3g of licorice…

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I rode a bicycle, wearing a pair of cloth shoes, to visit relatives. My outfit is nothing unusual in Beijing, but in my rural hometown it is dirt-common. Along the way, there was not a single…

"Tiaofei Tang" comes from the *Prescriptions for Universal Relief* (Puji Fang). Its composition is: 30g of apricot kernel (Xingren, scalded, peeled, tip and double kernels removed, stir-fried, 1 liang), 60g of ephedra (Mahuang, root nodes removed, scalded in water to skim the foam, dried, 2…

During the Spring Festival, back in my hometown, I came into contact with two young children in the toddler stage. Their shared trait was that they were more emotional than average children, easily falling into irritability or brooding, and showing strong aggression toward the outside.

Cheng, male, 84 years old, was admitted to Fuyang District First People's Hospital in Hangzhou on January 31, 2024 (admission no. 02434411) for severe constipation following COVID-19 infection and community-acquired pneumonia. The patient had a history of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and coronary atherosclerotic heart…

"Shufeng Lishui Tang" comes from the *New Explanation of Medical Formulas* (Yifang Xinjie). Its composition is: 9g of duckweed (Fuping), 9g of perilla leaf (Zisu), 12g of mulberry bark (Sangbaipi), 30g of motherwort (Yimucao), 12g of plantago seed (Cheqianzi), 30g of cogongrass rhizome (Baimaogen), 18g…

Chaihu Xianxiong Tang comes from the *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold-Damage* (Chongding Tongsu Shanghan Lun). Its composition is: 3g of bupleurum root (Chaihu, 1 qian), 9g of ginger-processed pinellia (Jiang Banxia, 3 qian), 2.4g of Coptis rhizome (Xiao Chuanhuanglian, 4 fen), 3g of platycodon root…