Chinese Materia Medica ⁽⁸⁾

Many cancer patients have serious anemia problems. On the one hand, tumors easily consume the body's qi and blood; on the other, commonly used cancer treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy also easily damage qi and blood. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy readily cause bone marrow…

Shugan Hewei Wan (Liver-Soothing and Stomach-Harmonizing Pill) is a Chinese patent medicine I use often—inexpensive (Tongrentang's small water pills cost less than ten yuan a bottle) but quite effective. According to TCM theory, it belongs to the qi-regulating category of formulas. The ingredients of Shugan…

Chinese medicine was invented by China's ancestors and has the broadest influence within China itself, yet China's share of the global TCM export market is only in the single digits. Japan, South Korea, and India all hold a larger share of the TCM export market…

Traditional Chinese medicine, aided by modern science and technology, has developed rapidly. The combination of TCM with modern technology represents great progress rather than regression. Although some traditional therapies and Chinese medicines have left the historical stage, on the whole the fact that TCM has…

China is a populous and diverse country, and it is not easy to make yourself heard there; unless you hold an extreme view and shout it from the rooftops, few people will pay attention. After Professor Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or…

Today, the most exciting news for Chinese people is that the pharmacologist of Chinese materia medica Tu Youyou has won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This is the first time a scientist based in China has won a Nobel science prize. The Nobel…

Haze weather has triggered a broad outbreak of respiratory disease; lately I have seen many patients with allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, and allergic skin disease. Below I write up my own diagnostic and therapeutic experience with chronic allergic disease. The great Japanese kampo physician Yumoto…

Although for most cancer patients who develop ascites the end of life is near, a small number can, if appropriate measures are taken, survive for a time with a relatively good quality of life; some can even turn danger to safety. Among the ascites patients…