Geriatric Disease ⁽⁸⁾

Counting today, I have been in my hometown for five days, the longest stay I have had here during summer vacations in recent years. In the past, I always rushed back and rushed away again for work reasons. This time I only want to keep…

A global study conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation of the University of Washington in collaboration with the National University of SingaporeYong Loo Lin School of Medicine shows that Singapore's life expectancy at birth reached 85.4 years in 2023, with a healthy…

Academician Tong Xiaolin has an empirical anti-aging formula composed as follows: Yinyanghuo (Epimedii Folium, horny goat weed) 90 g, Shanzhuyu (Corni Fructus, dogwood fruit) 90 g, Lurong (Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum, deer antler) 30 g, Guijiaojiao (Testudinis Carapacis Colla, tortoise-shell glue) 30 g, Huangjing (Polygonati Rhizoma)…

Senile dementia, also known as late-life dementia, is a severe cognitive disorder that onset in old age, often accompanied by marked impairment of social and daily functioning and varying degrees of neuropsychiatric symptoms. Patients show impairment of remote and recent memory, aphasia (difficulty understanding or…

The Buddha taught that life has eight sufferings; the three most closely bound up with old age are aging, illness, and death. When people are in their twenties or thirties, their impression of old age, sickness, and death is not deep, and so they can…

China Health Media Group's China Medical Science Press has published the "Famous Doctors Talk with You About Diseases" series; one of the volumes is titled Alzheimer's Disease. I gained a great deal from reading this book and would particularly like to recommend it to middle-aged…

Men seem innately unwilling to accept aging, and this may be an important reason why men's average life expectancy is far lower than women's. My father-in-law, in his later years, refused to accept aging and insisted on doing work he could manage when young; as…

In the Bianzheng Lu (Record of Pattern Differentiation) there is "Fu Lao Wan" specifically treating forgetfulness in the elderly. The formula consists of: Renshen (Ginseng Radix) 3 liang (90 g), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) 3 liang (90 g), Fushen (Poria with hostwood) 2 liang (60…