My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

After years of exploration, I have worked out some effective methods in treating tumors with TCM. One very important lesson is: using supernormal doses. Modern research also shows that certain TCM formulas or single herbs with anti-tumor effects act against tumors only when the blood…

The thought of yang-fire and yin-poison originated with Zhang Jingyue of the Ming dynasty and matured under Wang Weide of the Qing dynasty. This school held that the yang pattern of tumors is caused by fire, while the yin pattern is caused by poison; therefore…

I believe that a TCM physician treating patients needs three kinds of heart: a conscience, carefulness, and resolve. A physician without a conscience is a disaster for patients. Doctor-patient relations in China are currently very tense; in the final analysis, this is because corruption in…

Beijing's smoggy weather weakened my immunity, and I seem to have caught something—signs of a cold, plus rather severe skin itching lately. Based on my own constitution, I prescribed myself three doses of Cinnamon Twig Decoction (Guizhi Tang). The formula is as follows: Cinnamon twig…

A medical scientist once joked that in the transmission of infectious diseases such as hepatitis B, doctors have made the greatest contribution. Indeed it is so: it was precisely the advent of medical devices such as syringes and scalpels that gave human disease a new…

I now own a fairly large number of medical books. For a long stretch I spent over 5,000 yuan a month on average buying them—considering that this was the diamond-member price I paid ordering online, that amount would have bought roughly 8,000-plus yuan worth of…

Note: This is an old article I originally published under the pen name "Huaici Jushi." The mesothelioma patient described in it has now survived in remarkably good health for nearly four years, still able to work and live normally, vigorous and strong. In mid-October 2015…

Old Physician Pu Fuzhou, from the passage on Guizhi Tang in the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage)—"cover warmly for about one period, until the whole body is gently, slightly sweating; it is best not to let sweat pour like water, or the disease will…

I am now simultaneously studying TCM and Western internal medicine; I cannot say I prefer either, I simply use whichever works. But when using TCM to treat disease, I pay less and less regard to its foundational theory and more to mastering drug properties and…

The essentials of studying medicine are, first, to know disease, and second, to know drugs; these two are of paramount importance. Therefore, to study medicine one must first learn pathology and the properties of drugs. The kinds of disease are countless; the same disease has…