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Lu Fu Jin Fang (Imperial Prescriptions of the Lu Prince) is a work by the famous Ming-dynasty physician Gong Tingxian. Gong Tingxian was renowned in his day for his outstanding therapeutic results and was hailed as the “Zhuangyuan of the Medical World.” The proven formulas…

The three spring months are called the season of "dispelling the stale": heaven and earth give rise to life, and all things flourish. One should sleep late at night and rise early, walk widely in the courtyards, let the hair down and loosen the body,…

Gao Yimin was a native of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, born in 1920; he was a chief physician trained through the traditional apprenticeship (shicheng) system in Chinese medicine. From childhood he studied under the renowned Shenyang physician Zhang Zizhou. After liberation he served as honorary chairman…

Dangtan Tang comes from Zhang Xichun's Yixue Zhongzhong Canxi Lu (Records of Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine). Its composition is: unprocessed ochre (Daizheshi, crushed fine) 60 g, rhubarb (Dahuang) 30 g, mirabilite (Poxiao) 18 g, cleared Pinellia (Qing Banxia) 9 g, and Curcuma (Yujin) 9…