My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

Dear fellow cancer patients, hello to you all! In these special times, I want to offer you some professional advice in the form of a letter. These suggestions may not apply to every patient, so I hope each of you will weigh them carefully in…

On the last day of 2019, I decided to take stock of my own gains in medicine over the year. I want to write this article in two parts: one on my gains in medical research, and the other on my findings from studying China's…

I have had low-back and leg pain for three or four years. During these years I have treated myself and sought doctors everywhere. After all, I am not an orthopedic surgeon and am not expert in this kind of pain; a doctor does not treat…

When I decided to study medicine, I talked it over with an elder fellow apprentice who was already working as a doctor. He earnestly advised me not to study medicine or become a doctor; after so many years in the profession he was thoroughly tired…

The weather has been bitterly cold these past few days, and my son, who wore too little, caught a cold. From kindergarten through ninth grade, this is the only time he has ever taken one sick day. I have always been very attentive to my…

Liang Qichao said: every branch of Chinese learning carries a kind of mystery that can be apprehended but not put into words, which is the greatest obstacle to expanding knowledge. As part of traditional Chinese culture, TCM is closely tied to ancient Chinese philosophy, and…

As a traditional medicine, much of TCM theory is wrong, yet TCM genuinely works when treating disease. This shows that there are many practical elements within traditional Chinese medicine, but these practical elements have been misinterpreted because of the limitations of the times. Medicine advances…

The Huangdi Neijing says that “in treating disease, one must seek its root.” This statement is entirely correct: to treat disease, one must indeed find the fundamental cause. But it also says “the root lies in yin and yang,” and this statement is quite problematic.

Two days ago a triple-negative breast cancer patient came for a follow-up. In conversation she mentioned that over the past half year she had been using high-dose vitamin C to boost her immunity and fight cancer. During the talk I gave only a small reminder:…

I often advise families of end-stage cancer patients to give up illusions, care more for the patient, and stop useless treatments; but many cannot accept this emotionally. A saying widely circulated in medicine is: sometimes doing nothing is better for the patient than doing something.