Common TCM Knowledge ⁽¹⁸⁾

Each year I see roughly over a hundred cancer patients who have developed dry heat or persistent high fever from excessive moxibustion; they come to me seeking solutions to this side effect. The first thing to understand is that cancer patients with heat patterns are…

As a practitioner of TCM, I know its therapeutic effects very deeply. TCM can treat many diseases, including terminal illnesses like cancer, where it has some effect. But to boast of TCM's efficacy as omnipotent is either ignorance or lack of conscience. People often tell…

After my article "Do Not Moxibustion Recklessly" was published, people who had suffered physical harm from moxibustion came to consult me through various channels about what to do. I cannot give a uniform answer, because there is no single answer; there is only the gold…

Basic Common Knowledge About TCM Traditional Chinese medicine is the general term for China's traditional medicine. It is a specialized discipline invented by the ancient Chinese, which diagnoses and treats illness in patients through diagnostic methods such as inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry, and palpation…

There is a famous saying in TCM: "A folk prescription from the seaside can put a famous physician to shame." It is not at all rare for a small single-herb remedy to cure a disease that a learned famous doctor cannot. Not only in TCM—famous…

Because patients and their family members are not professional Chinese medicine physicians, and because clinicians cannot monitor everything a patient does, unpredictable high-risk events frequently occur, sometimes even causing death. I have written this article to alert patients. The first point is that a vital…

The prescriptions I write are mostly inexpensive. This has to do with my peasant background; the patients I see are mostly among the urban poor. Sometimes, going home and seeing fellow villagers who cannot even afford cheap medicine, I teach them to identify wild herbs…

Many patients ask me how to take Chinese herbal medicine properly. Here are a few practical tips based on clinical experience. 1. Timing of the decoction. Most herbal decoctions are taken warm, divided into two doses a day, one in the morning and one in…