Book Recommendations ⁽¹⁴⁾

Seeing the title “The End of Alzheimer’s,” my first thought was: what audacity—that someone dares to claim they can end Alzheimer’s disease, a condition even harder to cure than cancer. There are many people cured of cancer, but we have never heard of anyone whose…

"Using poison to attack poison" is an important therapeutic method in traditional Chinese medicine. From ancient times to the present, Chinese physicians have been exploring the therapeutic effects of poisons on diseases; many toxic substances are highly effective Chinese medicines, such as Scolopendra (centipede), Scorpio…

Mingyin Ji of Surgery (Waike Mingyin Ji) is a work by He Jingcai, a Hui (Muslim) village physician from Dachang County, Hebei, in the late Qing dynasty. The book was published in the twenty-eighth year of the Guangxu reign (1902). He Jingcai borrowed money to…

Readers often ask me to recommend a reading list for studying TCM anti-cancer treatment. I have always felt apprehensive about prescribing book lists, because I know my own level is limited and I am not qualified to direct others in how to read and study…

The Zhu-Xuan Shi Jinmo Yi'an (Selected Medical Cases of Shi Jinmo, Compiled by Zhu) is a TCM case-study work in which Professor Zhu Chenyu, a disciple and son-in-law of Shi Jinmo, selected Shi's case records, with the participation and editorial review of three other disciples—Zhang…

Zheng Yin Mai Zhi (Symptoms, Cause, Pulse, and Treatment) is a TCM work completed jointly by Qin Changyu (style name Jingming), a famous physician of the late Ming dynasty, and his grandnephew Qin Zhizhen (style name Huangshi); it is well worth reading.Qin Changyu was a…

To study human homeostasis, the American physiologist Walter Cannon's The Wisdom of the Body is a book one simply must read. Precisely because of Cannon's contribution, modern biology lists homeostasis and irritability as two of the six characteristics of living things (specific organization, metabolism, homeostasis…

Atlas of Common Skin Diseases (3rd ed.) is an illustrated popular-science monograph on dermatology edited by Yu Ruiyuan, Wang Jiabidu, Qi Jun, and others. The book has now reached a fourth edition, renamed Color Atlas of Skin Diseases, still edited by Yu Ruiyuan, Qi Jun,…

I have recently been reading the Practical Handbook Series for National County-Level Hospitals on the WeChat Reading app, and have gained a great deal. Free electronic books indeed save money and take up no space. But as I kept reading, I still selected some volumes…

Drug therapy is one of the main approaches to treating malignant tumors at present, but drug therapy produces all kinds of side effects. Chemotherapy, antibiotics, endocrine drugs, immune agents and targeted drugs all inevitably have side effects; even some drugs used to relieve the side…