My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

Over the past ten-plus years, I have been dealing with cancer and cancer patients, and also constantly thinking about and exploring how to extend the lives of cancer patients. Only now do I gradually realize that to control cancer and, to the greatest extent, extend…

Many of the children with neuroblastoma who come to me for help can hardly tear their eyes away from electronic screens; some children cannot even stay away from smartphones or tablets for more than five minutes, and after five minutes they start crying and throwing…

My leg pain keeps recurring: after treatment it eases for a while and then flares up again; after another round of treatment it eases again for a while, going around and around in this cycle. These past few days it has been especially painful, and…

Over the past two years, my research on fighting cancer with Chinese medicine has had its gains and its losses. August is the dog-days period; every year in August there are fewer patients consulting and visiting than in other months. In August I organized a…

Recently, building on my earlier work, I have further refined the formula, combining more than a hundred Chinese herbs to treat adult cancer, with modest results. I now write this article to introduce my experience in prescribing.The Chinese herbs I use include the following: mao-zhao-cao…

Qixi, also called the Qiqiao Festival, is in folklore the day the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, and it was also my mother's birthday. My mother was born on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in 1954; had she lived until today,…

Yesterday, Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the National Health Commission, announced at a press conference of the Healthy China Action Promotion Committee that deaths caused by chronic non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes account for 88% of…

Academician Wang Yongyan issued a call to the TCM community to "read the classics and do clinical practice," arguing that to cultivate outstanding TCM talent one must value "reading the classics and doing clinical practice." This is, admittedly, very sound advice. But times have changed.

I once worked in an American-style hospital, and for a time I was an executive there. One of the hospital's investors was a physician practicing in the United States, a leading authority in cardiovascular disease. During my time there I learned things quite different from…

Lately I have been turning over a problem in my mind and reflecting on it: why is my own therapeutic result not satisfactory to me? Many physicians have puzzled over efficacy in the course of their practice. As far as I know, the elder physician…