Large Formula Multi-Target TCM Therapy ⁽¹⁶⁾

In keeping with the principle advocated in this book's general introduction—gathering cognate formulas and cognate medicinals into large composite formulas—I will compile common TCM formulas and medicinals by category for use in clinical formula composition. This installment covers cognate formulas for neurological diseases. To save…

On August 24, 2026, I took the high-speed train from Beijing to the ancient capital Luoyang to meet the laboratory director of a local tertiary hospital and negotiate an animal-experiment collaboration on treating lung cancer using the large, multi-component, multi-target approach. The night before, I…

The Way of Heaven—Is it not like bending a bow? What is high is lowered; what is low is raised. What has excess is reduced; what is deficient is supplemented. The Way of Heaven reduces the excessive and supplements the deficient. The way of humanity…

The most effective, safest, and most economical health strategy is preventing disease. If you never fall ill, you need no treatment, take no therapeutic risk, and spend nothing. Even if you do fall ill, proactive self-care can still compensate to some degree. If patients actively…

If readers have followed this book from the preface, you should by now understand that the TCM large-formula multi-target special therapy I advocate is essentially a philosophy of treating disease. It is not a fixed, ready-made formula but a compositional approach that can be continuously…

I advocate the large-formula multi-target special therapy and have practiced it clinically for over ten years, witnessing its results firsthand and working out some prescribing rules. Though I cannot yet, as I wish, speed up research through large-scale animal and human trials, that does not…

How does one compose a large formula that may work well? Are there referenceable principles for doing so? The basic principle of traditional TCM formula composition is to combine herbs according to the "seven relationships" (qi qing) first recorded in Shennong Bencao Jing (Divine Farmer's…

Some readers, having seen me publish my book manuscript, have asked to buy a paper copy. I am very sorry: there is no paper edition yet, and the book is not finished. Even if I finish it in the next few years, I will not…

For Chinese people today, the two most familiar medical systems are TCM and Western medicine. In fact, many peoples once had their own traditional medicine; India's classical Ayurveda is even called the mother of medicine, and its influence is considerable. Iran has a Persian medical…

Here I offer a definition of the large-formula multi-target special therapy I advocate: it is a comprehensive approach to treating refractory diseases whose causes and pathology are both intricate. It is a treatment strategy designed, on the basis of full consideration of a disease's known…