My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

The late national master of medicine Professor He Puren once said that he had four teachers, one of whom was his patients. Over these years I have deeply felt the truth of his words. My patients and their families are close to me without any…

Case One A little girl in Guizhou developed asthma after a cold, due to a residual latent pathogen in the lungs. Her cough and wheezing were severe, and wheezing could be heard. Her mother was an online acquaintance who knew my work quite well; in…

Malignant tumours are classified, according to the origin of their tissue cells, into carcinomas, sarcomas and blastomas. Carcinomas arise from epithelial tissue; sarcomas arise from mesenchymal non-epithelial tissue; blastomas arise from immature tissue. Sarcomas are extremely malignant and progress rapidly, often enlarging to around ten…

It is beyond doubt that a cancer patient's body contains a pathogenic evil, and once cancer has formed it is very hard to reverse. Relying solely on supporting upright qi without any pathogen-expelling measure cannot guarantee long-term survival. The most fundamental aim of cancer treatment…

In treating chronic spleen-stomach disease, the purgation method should be used with great caution. From the TCM perspective, patients with chronic gastric illness belong to spleen-stomach deficiency; from the Western-medicine perspective they are functional disorders. Neither is an excess pattern suited to purgation. If the…

In treating serious disease, TCM has always passed down the admonition to "stop once the illness has been reduced by more than half." For a patient with a grave illness, strength is already depleted; taking medicine to drive out the pathogen injures the original qi.

In the book Laozi (Dao De Jing) there is a famous maxim: the Way of Heaven reduces the surplus and supplements the deficient. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is especially closely linked to Daoist philosophy; Laozi's idea of reducing the surplus and supplementing the deficient can…

When my mother was tormented by illness, I sought doctors everywhere, not hesitating to lose my fortune or abandon my career. In the process of taking her from doctor to doctor, I encountered countless sorrowful things. In the end my mother could not be saved,…

When I talk with fellow patients, I often say that during cancer treatment, excessive profit-seeking by doctors and medical institutions is, in essence, taking life. Because for a patient, when one treatment plan drains the purse yet has no effect, the only option left is…

Some patients develop symptoms after taking medicine and then take another drug to treat the symptoms caused by the first—this is treating one drug with another. In treating disease, TCM should not treat one drug with another. Patients often tell me, in conversation, that they…