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Abstract Modern pharmacology and traditional Chinese materia medica belong to two distinct theoretical systems: the former is founded on experimental science, whereas the latter centres on holism and treatment based on syndrome differentiation. A careful comparison, however, reveals several striking parallels in the way each…

“Person-centered care” is one of the defining characteristics of general practice. General practice has shifted from the traditional biomedical focus on “the disease in the person” to studying “the person with the disease,” while expanding its scope to include healthy individuals. General medical care values…

Yü Nü Jian is an empirical formula created by Zhang Jingyue during the Ming Dynasty. Its composition is as follows: raw gypsum (Sheng Shi Gao) 3 to 5 qian, prepared rehmannia (Shu Di) 3 to 5 qian or 1 liang, ophiopogon (Mai Dong) 2 qian,…

Similarities and Differences Between Chinese and Western Medicine Diagnostic Methods In the course of Diagnostics, our diagnostic instructor summarized the diagnostic approaches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine into nine characters: “inspection, auscultation-and-olfaction, inquiry, and palpation” (TCM) and “inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, and…

The Old Book of Tang · Biographies of Arts and Techniques records: "Xu Yinzong was a native of Yixing, Changzhou. He initially served the Chen dynasty as an Outer Military Adjutant to the Prince of Xincai. At the time, the Dowager Consort Liu suffered from…

On September 1, 2026, the journal Nature Neuroscience published a study on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) conducted by Professor Jay Tischfield of Rutgers University in New Jersey and colleagues. The study analyzed the DNA of nearly 4,000 people diagnosed with these conditions and identified 36 genes…

Classes resumed a week ago, and I've now met just about all of this year's instructors. Every evening, I take a post-dinner stroll around the sports field with my backpack on. The late-summer breeze feels wonderfully cool against my skin, and the field is very…

The first class of our new semester was Introduction to General Practice. In our textbook Introduction to General Practice, compiled under the leadership of professors from Capital Medical University, there is a passage that reads: "In the late 1950s, with the accelerating aging of the…

The patient, surnamed Wang, is a 51-year-old woman residing in Lanzhou, Gansu Province. Over the past two years, she underwent various examinations in hospitals because of intractable headache and joint swelling and pain, yet no cause could be identified for these symptoms. In July 2026,…

Over the past two weeks, two patients contacted me about episodes of transient chest pain. They had undergone various hospital examinations without anything abnormal being found. Because they worried it might be a heart problem, they even had 24-hour Holter monitoring and a coronary CTA,…