Some Advice on Studying Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Japanese say that the untransmitted secret of Chinese medicine lies in the dosage. Herbal dosage is indeed a problem, but is this secret really "untransmitted" or merely "hard to transmit"? In my view it is not that it is not transmitted, but that it…

Exploit the benefit while controlling the harm—this is a point to which particular attention must be paid when using Chinese herbs. In fact, it applies more broadly: a good Western physician must consider the same thing. For example, when using aspirin, one must fully take…

The prescriptions I write are mostly inexpensive. This has to do with my peasant background; the patients I see are mostly among the urban poor. Sometimes, going home and seeing fellow villagers who cannot even afford cheap medicine, I teach them to identify wild herbs…