Anti-Cancer Basics ⁽⁴⁸⁾

Many cancer patients only seek Chinese medicine at the very last moment. In fact, when a cancer patient has truly exhausted all the methods of Western medicine and only then turns to Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine will no longer have a good effect either. Especially…

Last September, I went to Shaoxing, Zhejiang, to pay my respects at the hometown of a patient and close friend who had passed away. I stayed one night in his home. In the empty house he had left behind, I was all alone; my old…

There is an old Chinese saying: "Long at the sickbed, no filial son; long in poverty, no worthy wife." Lately, caring for my father, I have come to feel some truth in it. My father has a mild tendency toward late-life depression, stubborn constipation, and…

There are many illnesses that medicine cannot solve. Neither modern medicine nor traditional medicine can solve all disease problems; there are always medical puzzles beyond what any doctor can solve. As patients, how can we live relatively better when medicine cannot solve our problems? In…

Nowadays many TCM doctors like to prescribe heat-clearing, detoxifying herbs to cancer patients; I myself often use such formulas. But some patients, after overusing cold and cooling herbs, develop marked discomfort, and some develop severe side effects. I have treated several patients whose spleen and…

What should I pay attention to in my diet? Which foods cause cancer? Which foods help my condition? What foods should I avoid while on medication? What kind of exercise can help me fight cancer? Can qigong help fight cancer? Does tai chi have an…

Each year I see roughly over a hundred cancer patients who have developed dry heat or persistent high fever from excessive moxibustion; they come to me seeking solutions to this side effect. The first thing to understand is that cancer patients with heat patterns are…

In 2013, the Sina Cancer Friends Circle held its seventh-anniversary gathering at Wanxian Mountain, Xinxiang, Henan, and I attended. After the evening celebration began, an older woman from Beijing with advanced breast cancer, overcome with excitement, suddenly fainted. The situation was critical. Among the circle…

"The illnesses of old age are all invited during one's prime; the miseries of decline are all wrought during one's heyday." — Cai Gen Tan (Conversations from a Vegetable Root) Every year I deal with thousands upon thousands of cancer patients. Many come to me…

In the age of self-media, every individual can have their own platform to speak to the outside world; for example, this official account of mine is also one of the countless self-media outlets. Because there is no gatekeeping by regulatory authorities, and because most self-media…