My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

Comorbidity is a common phenomenon. In English it is called comorbidity; some translate it as "co-illness" or "concurrent disease," but in Chinese the term that best captures the English word is gongbing (comorbidity). It means the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases. For example,…

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. — Charles Darwin, one of the founders of modern biology In 2000, the humor science magazine the Annals of Improbable Research awarded that year’s Ig Nobel Prize in Psychology to social psychologist David Dunning of Cornell University…

Chaijie Jiedu Wan (Chai-Guided Toxin-Resolving Pill) is a formula I created for treating COVID infection. The composition is: Guizhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi) 10 g, Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae) 10 g, Renshen (Radix Ginseng) 10 g, Zhi Gancao (processed Radix Glycyrrhizae) 6 g, Baishao (Radix Paeoniae Alba) 10…

Recently my stamina has fully recovered; when doing endurance exercise, my physical fitness is back to its peak. Among more than 40,000 stationary-bike participants, I rank in the top eighty, surpassing 99.8% of participants, entering the top two-tenths of a percent. Having monitored my blood…

Chinese people have always known that eating only until 70% full is better for one's health. Animal experiments have also confirmed that caloric restriction can prolong the lifespan of laboratory mice.On August 15, 2016, the journal Nature published a study by Jan Hoeijmakers and colleagues…

There was a patient with gastric signet-ring cell carcinoma from Tianjin who had been receiving my pure TCM treatment for over a year. After treatment, although he was living and working normally and his previously progressively declining weight had stabilized, the disease had not been…

Over ten years ago, my mother was treated for gastric cancer at a Grade-A tertiary hospital in Beijing. Her attending physician was an associate professor specializing in medical oncology of the digestive tract, a medical doctor around forty. When my mother returned to the hospital…

A sophomore student wanted to study TCM with me. Because my own learning is still shallow, I always felt unworthy of being someone's teacher, so I politely declined. But after declining several times, he was still very sincere in wanting to study medicine with me…

On the second day after the Start of Autumn (Liqiu), I went out to the balcony and suddenly noticed that my gardenia plant had bloomed for a second time this year. I have been growing gardenias in Beijing for nearly twenty years, and this is…

VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) is an important tumor marker. In many patients' test reports, VEGF expression is found to be excessively high. VEGF is a pro-angiogenic factor with multiple physiological functions; it promotes wound healing, tissue and organ repair, embryonic development, and angiogenesis. It…