My Medical Convictions ⁽¹⁸⁾

The understanding of fever in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Medicine presents a complementary relationship of "microscopic mechanism–macroscopic syndrome differentiation": Western medicine follows the causal chain of "pyrogen → thermoregulatory set point → fever," emphasizing precise etiological localization and quantitative grading; TCM follows the…

The multi-target application of large compound formulas requires careful attention to medication safety. My personal approach to ensuring medication safety encompasses the following three key aspects: When adopting a multi-target approach with large compound formulas for treating diseases, the formulation strategy must be comprehensive. It…

Abstract Modern pharmacology and traditional Chinese materia medica belong to two distinct theoretical systems: the former is founded on experimental science, whereas the latter centres on holism and treatment based on syndrome differentiation. A careful comparison, however, reveals several striking parallels in the way each…

Similarities and Differences Between Chinese and Western Medicine Diagnostic Methods In the course of Diagnostics, our diagnostic instructor summarized the diagnostic approaches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine into nine characters: “inspection, auscultation-and-olfaction, inquiry, and palpation” (TCM) and “inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, and…

The first class of our new semester was Introduction to General Practice. In our textbook Introduction to General Practice, compiled under the leadership of professors from Capital Medical University, there is a passage that reads: "In the late 1950s, with the accelerating aging of the…

Following the principle proposed in the general discussion of this book, that homologous formulas and homologous medicinal herbs can be assembled into large‑compound prescriptions, the author compiles common TCM formulas and medicinal substances by category for clinical formula‑composition reference. This section covers homologous prescriptions for…

August 24, 2026. I took the high‑speed rail from Beijing to Luoyang, the ancient capital, to hold discussions with the laboratory director of a Grade‑A Tertiary Hospital there about cooperation on animal experiments for lung cancer treatment based on the multi‑target large‑compound prescription approach. The…

At this point in the writing process, the general‑introduction section of this book has reached 36,000 words and is ready to draw to a close. It is my belief that once readers grasp these core concepts laid out in the general introduction, they will gain…

The Principle‑Method‑Formula‑Medicinal Therapeutic System of Traditional Chinese Medicine In disease treatment, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) adheres to the step‑by‑step logic of Principle, Method, Formula, Medicinal. At the highest level, the principle can be briefly stated as reducing excess and supplementing deficiency, which restores the organism…

How Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnoses Diseases Using the Concepts of "Excess" and "Deficiency" As previously discussed, the core mission of medicine is to address the issues of "excess" and "deficiency" in the human body. But how do we diagnose whether a patient is suffering from…