My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

A monk asked the Buddha: What is greatest in strength? What is clearest in wisdom? The Buddha said: Forbearance and patience bring great strength, because one harbors no ill will and is additionally peaceful and healthy. Those who forbear have no evil and will surely…

Genes are the smallest known units of living things. Modern biology has confirmed that fatalism is, to some extent, reasonable: our life begins as a fertilized egg, and our genome is already fixed when we are but a single cell. Genes influence our intelligence, health,…

The liver is the body's second-largest vital organ and its largest gland, weighing about 1.36 kg and accounting for 1.5%–2.5% of body weight. The liver is the largest digestive gland in the body, with important and complex metabolic functions. The liver has a dual blood…

After learning that a classmate of mine had died young, a close friend told me that her older sister was born in the same year as me and studied at Peking University Law School as an undergraduate; among her sister's cohort at Peking University Law…

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, when relatives and friends were exchanging New Year greetings by phone, I was shocked to learn that a former classmate had passed away in August 2020 at a hospital in Wuhan after failing to respond to…

Except for God, everyone else can only win our trust through data. —Dr. Bernie Fisher Modern medical textbooks are updated very quickly, with a new edition appearing every few years, and each edition differs considerably from the previous one. As times develop and more epidemiological…

Induction-differentiation therapy refers to a treatment method in which, under the action of certain in vivo or in vitro differentiation-inducing agents, malignant tumor cells are induced to evolve and differentiate toward normal cells. Through induced differentiation, the biological characteristics of malignant tumor cells (including markers…

Half of the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) is about the sweating method. Among the eight traditional therapeutic methods of Chinese medicine, the sweating method comes first. Textbooks of Chinese medicinal formulas place the sweating and exterior-releasing method at the top; likewise, textbooks of…

Today, watching the news, I saw two police notices. One was from the Shangcheng District Branch of the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau, reporting that at about 10:55 a.m. on January 22, 2021, the bureau received a call reporting a suspected explosive device deflagration incident on…

I have studied under many teachers, both Chinese medicine and Western medicine. From them I learned not only professional medical knowledge and skills, but also the experience of practicing medicine and conducting oneself in the world—all of it precious. The longer I myself work in…