My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

Xiao Chaihu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction) comes from the Shanghan Lun. Among the indications treated by Xiao Chaihu Tang is cough. But the causes of cough are very complex, and not all coughs are suitable for treatment with Xiao Chaihu Tang. The Shanghan Lun has…

There is a gentleman from Inner Mongolia who came to know me through an introduction by an acquaintance. When someone in his family fell ill, he came to me. The first patient he brought me was a lung cancer patient. In only a month or…

At noon on June 29, 2018, after I had seen the patients booked for the day, a sudden severe pain struck me. It was like a knife twisting inside, and it intensified rapidly. I was in such pain that cold sweat streamed down, and I…

Patients often ask me whether a formula published in my articles, or one they dug up from somewhere else, is suitable for them. I suppose other doctors get this all the time too. For patients I have not examined in person, I simply have to…

I now mainly treat cancer, and have not studied the treatment of allergic rhinitis for a long time. But because in the past I treated some patients with allergic rhinitis and allergic skin disease, the patients I cured never stop referring fellow sufferers to me,…

Medicine is an extremely special profession. Doctor-patient disputes are widespread across every country in the world, not excluding the most developed nations. What American doctors dread most is being sued over doctor-patient litigation. In recent years, in Germany and Britain as well, medicine has become…

Once, when I was away on a house call, a cancer patient in his twenties lay in a hospital bed and asked me, "Why did I get this disease?" He felt heaven was deeply unfair; his mother had died not long before of another cancer.

Recently I bought many Western-medicine monographs on oncology. As I read, I felt deeply ashamed, because reading these works showed me how very thin my own professional knowledge of oncology still is. I once saw a survey saying that among practicing oncologists in the United…

In Shiniu Village, Dahe Town, Zisha County, Zunyi, Guizhou, there is a couple, Wei Fafu and Wang Ronglian, both stricken with cancer. The husband, Wei Fafu, had gastric cancer; the wife, Wang Ronglian, had oral cancer. By the doctors' judgment, neither would live long. But…

Sima Qian wrote the following at the end of the chapter "Biographies of Bian Que and Cang Gong" in the Records of the Grand Historian: "Whether a woman is beautiful or plain, once she enters the palace she is envied; whether a scholar is worthy…