Chronic Disease ⁽⁵⁾

In Chapter 3, "Treatment Strategy," of his work Weixin Yilun, Academician Tong Xiaolin specifically wrote an essay titled "Chronic-Disease Strategy" to explain his approach to treating chronic diseases. In that essay, Academician Tong states: "Chronic disease is like ice frozen three feet thick—no one day's…

A medical scientist once joked that in the transmission of infectious diseases such as hepatitis B, doctors have made the greatest contribution. Indeed it is so: it was precisely the advent of medical devices such as syringes and scalpels that gave human disease a new…

People often ask me, since you studied TCM, tell me what I should eat for health preservation. This question annoys me greatly. As far as I know, many people in history who tried to preserve health through herbs died off while taking them; many emperors…

Because of my mother's cancer, I have stayed in cancer circles for ten years. Through Tianya Hospital, Sina Blogs, and QQ groups I have come to know a great many cancer patients and their families, and I constantly see anxious cancer patients and families rushing…

By "chronic wasting diseases" here I mean long-course conditions marked by progressive physical depletion—cancer, diabetes, pulmonary tuberculosis, and various chronic inflammations. Many such patients can be treated in TCM from the perspective of vacuity-warmth (xuwen). Applying the combined treatment principles of supplementation, dispersing, clearing and…