My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

Many years ago, a patient with advanced liver cancer, after ineffective integrated Chinese-Western treatment at an authoritative Beijing hospital, returned to his hometown at his wits' end. He was unable to urinate or defecate, was extremely weak, and in great distress. His daughter, unable to…

In Jin Yong's wuxia novel "The Return of the Condor Heroes," Jin Yong has Guo Jing voice the idealistic value that "the greatest xia (chivalrous hero) acts for the country and the people." The great heroes in Jin Yong's writing — Guo Jing, Yang Guo,…

I recently took on as my master a veteran TCM physician in her sixties. She began studying medicine at twelve and comes from a distinguished lineage, yet she is extremely low-key, sees patients cautiously, and repeatedly warns me during clinical teaching to practice carefully: first…

There is a folk saying: "Nine out of ten stomachs are diseased." Stomach disorders are extremely common; almost everyone encounters stomach problems at some stage of life. The "stomach disorders" in this saying actually also include what modern medicine calls esophageal diseases and intestinal diseases…

Some people often misunderstand "living with cancer" as doing nothing about the cancer, and this way of thinking is wrong. For the patient, if the tumor does not grow or spread, that already counts as meaningful treatment; if it can slowly shrink, the meaning is…

In recent years, medical research on tumours has grown ever deeper, and cancer patients are living ever longer. Oncologists at home and abroad are constantly updating their understanding of tumours. Some scholars hold that after a tumour forms, the intercellular regulation and signalling are disrupted…

Today I saw a news story: an American father, after doctors declared his son brain-dead, refused to believe that his son was truly brain-dead. Because he knew his son had a history of epilepsy, when the hospital was about to remove his son's organs, he…

I have never really believed that any physician could repeatedly cure multiple cases of hepatitis B, whether TCM or Western - until a liver-cancer patient, when seeking my help, told me that his father-in-law's hepatitis B had been cured forty years earlier by an old…

Thirty years ago, when I was still a child, two elderly doctors in our village treated everyone there; by kinship they were both my great-uncles. These two kinsmen of mine were skilled in tuina bone-setting, acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, and certain TCM external therapies. Every…

Does TCM work for cancer? This is a sharp question that arouses controversy. On the one hand, die-hard TCM fans and some ill-intentioned medical institutions will vigorously promote and exaggerate the efficacy of TCM in treating cancer, misleading patients and ultimately causing them to miss…