Goiter Nodule ⁽³⁾

Fu Canbing was born in 1917 in Jiangjin County, Sichuan Province. He was a chief TCM physician who began studying Chinese medicine under his father, Fu Songtao, in childhood. With more than 50 years of clinical experience, he served as director and later as advisor…

In classical Chinese, "ying" (goiter) is a tumor growing on the neck. Around the year 100 AD, Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters) explained this term. Zhang Hua, the naturalist of the Western Jin dynasty, further pointed out in his Bowu Zhi…

The Qianjin Yaofang (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold) contains a plaster formula named Hualiu Gao (Nodule-Resolving Plaster). Its composition is: fan-shi (alunite/ alum stone), chuanxiong (Sichuan lovage rhizome), danggui (angelica root), dahuang (rhubarb), huanglian (coptis), chishao (red peony root), bailian (ampelopsis root) and huangqin…