Bipolar Disorder ⁽³⁾

"Shangxia Liangji Dan" (Upper-and-Lower Mutual-Support Pellets) comes from Bianzheng Lu (Records of Pattern Differentiation) by the Qing physician Chen Shiduo. Its composition is: Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma), 5 qian (15 g); Shudihuang (processed Rehmanniae Radix), 1 liang (30 g); Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), 5…

The Qing-dynasty physician Zhao Xuemin recorded in Chuanya Neiwaibian (Collections from a Wanderer, Inner and Outer Sections) a formula called "Jiedan Fang" (Mania-Cutting Formula). It consists of equal parts of Baifan (Alumen, alum) and Yujin (Curcumae Radix); the two are ground together into powder and…

I am full of polar opposites: despair and hope, love and hate, coldness and warmth, stillness and motion, inferiority and confidence — too many to list. It is like the drop of a bungee jump, switching freely from one mode to another. I am a…