My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

By "chronic wasting diseases" here I mean long-course conditions marked by progressive physical depletion—cancer, diabetes, pulmonary tuberculosis, and various chronic inflammations. Many such patients can be treated in TCM from the perspective of vacuity-warmth (xuwen). Applying the combined treatment principles of supplementation, dispersing, clearing and…

The human body is subtle and unfathomable, the hardest thing in the world to fathom. Thus, although humanity has lived on earth for millions of years and science and technology have grown magnificent, physicians' understanding of the human body is still only partial, and the…

Before I came to understand medicine deeply, I liked criticizing physicians' professional skill, like most people. After studying medicine for a while, I gradually realized those earlier comments were naive and ignorant. As of today, although human medicine appears advanced, in fact, compared with the…

Haze weather has triggered a broad outbreak of respiratory disease; lately I have seen many patients with allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, and allergic skin disease. Below I write up my own diagnostic and therapeutic experience with chronic allergic disease. The great Japanese kampo physician Yumoto…