My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

How difficult diseases are to treat is probably known only to clinicians. Many medical theories sound exciting but have little practical use in clinical practice, which most beginners and amateur learners do not realize. So I often meet overheated fans of TCM who mistakenly believe…

Some articles I wrote a few days ago caught the attention of several readers, who asked me how non-academic TCM practitioners can obtain a physician license. I am writing this article to explain in detail, for everyone's reference. I hope it helps those who, like…

Part of the case record of a leukemia patient I discuss in this article has already been published; for the detailed treatment plan, please see my article "A Case of TCM Treatment of a Leukemia Patient", so I will not repeat it here. In this…

Pattern differentiation and treatment (bianzheng lunzhi) is the foundational clinical skill of Chinese medicine. It comprises three parts: first, eight-principle pattern differentiation; second, six-channel, triple-burner, defense-qi-nutrient-blood, and zang-fu pattern differentiation; third, formula-pattern and herb-pattern differentiation. The level of one’s pattern differentiation determines the level of…

My study of Chinese medicine has roughly gone through three stages. In the earliest stage, I read works such as Huangdi Neijing and Yijing, feeling that these books were very reasonable, with a sense that "all the principles of medicine in the world are exhausted…

These days, under the guidance of a respected elder (a TCM chief physician), I have carefully reviewed my insights from treating cancer over the years and written an outline-style summary. Under his guidance, this manuscript went through more than a dozen revisions before it was…

A nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient from Sichuan whom the author treats had, some time ago, while taking the anticancer herbs the author gave him, also receive an intravenous infusion of anti-inflammatory drugs for one day; remarkably, his tumor kept shrinking by about half within a week,…

Ancient Chinese medicine originally arose from the practice of the working people; practice yields true knowledge. The therapeutic experience groped out in the course of practice was fairly reliable. Early medical classics were also very plain: a certain herb treats a certain disease, relieves a…

Patients or their families often add me on WeChat and shower me with extravagant praise, which makes me thoroughly uncomfortable. Because the "me" they describe is not the real me but the "me" they expect; some even deify me. I understand that people want to…

Yanzi's Spring and Autumn Annals (Yanzi Chunqiu) contains the following passage: "Oranges grown south of the Huai River are oranges; grown north of the Huai they become trifoliate oranges. The leaves look alike, but the fruits taste different. Why? Because the water and soil differ."…