Nervous System Disease ⁽²⁷⁾

In keeping with the principle advocated in this book's general introduction—gathering cognate formulas and cognate medicinals into large composite formulas—I will compile common TCM formulas and medicinals by category for use in clinical formula composition. This installment covers cognate formulas for neurological diseases. To save…

Niuxi Wan (Achyranthes Pill) comes from Li Dongyuan's Essentials of Practical Methods (Huofa Jiyao). Its composition is: Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, wine-soaked), Bixie (Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Rhizoma), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex, fried), Roucongrong (Cistanches Herba, wine-soaked), Tusizi (Cuscutae Semen), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Huluba (Trigonellae Semen, fried), Buguzhi…

The Ming physician Gong Tingxian included a formula called Qingre Daotan Tang (Heat-Clearing Phlegm-Driving Decoction) in his Shoushi Baoyuan. Gong Tingxian described the composition and indications of the formula as follows: Huanglian (Coptis) 8 fen; Huangqin (Scutellaria) 2 qian; Gualouren (Trichosanthes seed) 4 qian, shell…

The Old Book of Tang, Biographies of Artists and Technicians records: "Xu Yinzong was a native of Yixing, Changzhou. He first served the Chen dynasty as a military aide to the Prince of Xincai. At that time the Empress Dowager Liu suffered from wind and…

On May 21, 2026, the journal Science published a research report by a team led by the neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard of the University of Rochester in the United States. The report proposed that, after years of study, the team found that sleep is essential for…

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) reported that a large survey covering 14 European countries and more than 28,500 people aged 50 and over found that people with better chewing ability and more retained natural teeth generally performed better on cognitive tests such as vocabulary memory,…

Professor Yang Muxuan formerly served as director of the TCM Diagnostics teaching and research section and doctoral supervisor at the TCM College of Hebei Medical University, and is a renowned TCM expert in Hebei Province. On April 8, 1997, Professor Yang saw a 52-year-old farmer…

Seeing the title “The End of Alzheimer’s,” my first thought was: what audacity—that someone dares to claim they can end Alzheimer’s disease, a condition even harder to cure than cancer. There are many people cured of cancer, but we have never heard of anyone whose…

Yilin Gaicuo (Corrections of Errors in Medical Circles) is a work by the Qing-dynasty physician Wang Qingren. Wang Qingren was a physician of strong personality and a highly effective clinical practitioner. His book Yilin Gaicuo is very thin but remarkably innovative—terse and to the point.

Alzheimer's & Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer's Association (U.S.), recently published a research report by investigators at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and other institutions. The study examined hundreds of elderly people, using non-invasive ultrasound and spectroscopy to…