Clearing Heat and Detoxifying ⁽³⁾

Professor Li Zizhi, a disciple of Shi Jinmo and one of the founders of Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, once used a heat-clearing and toxin-resolving method to treat a case of shingles. The case is as follows: Cui, a 65-year-old man, first visited on February…

The formula for Qinlian Pian (tablets/capsules) is taken from the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China (Part I, 2005 edition). Its composition is: Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix) 250 g, Lianqiao (Forsythiae Fructus) 250 g, Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma) 100 g, Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex) 400 g, Chishao…

When treating cancer, contemporary academic clinicians habitually prescribe heat-clearing and detoxifying, blood-activating and stasis-resolving, hardness-scattering and nodule-dispersing, qi-supplementing and blood-enriching, and vital-qi-supporting and pathogen-expelling formulas. Having seen many cancer patients, the great majority of TCM prescriptions I encounter are built on large doses of heat-clearing…