Nervous System Disease ⁽²⁷⁾

People’s Medical Publishing House has produced a set of “national higher-education organ-system integrated textbooks” for clinical-medicine students. It is an excellent set; used together with the classic clinical-medicine textbooks (now in their tenth edition), it greatly benefits clinical-medicine students. I have gradually bought nearly the…

Yesterday, while reading, I came upon the following passage on page 332, first line, of Xitong Jiepouxue (Systematic Anatomy) (chief reviewer Ding Wenlong; editors-in-chief Cui Huixian and Liu Xuezheng; People's Medical Publishing House, 10th edition, July 2024; 3rd printing, November 2024): "Physical factors such as…

Recently, the National Medical Products Administration issued an announcement (No. 120 of 2025) on revising the package inserts for montelukast preparations, requiring that warning language be added to the inserts of all montelukast formulations, alerting that montelukast carries a risk of inducing depression, self-harm, and…

Recently I have been studying the nervous system and have developed a number of thoughts. The answers to these cannot be found in textbooks, and consulting teachers may not yield answers either. I am jotting them down so I do not forget them over time,…

This past week I have been utterly absorbed in studying the nervous system, as if possessed. I have always had a very strong interest in the nervous system, but the number of class hours at school is limited, and teachers can hardly go into it…

Xinhua News Agency recently reported that a latest study has found that vertebrates can completely "regenerate from scratch" a complex lymphoid organ—the thymus—without any residual tissue. The study was completed by the team of Maximina H. Yun, senior researcher at the Capital Medical Sciences Innovation…

Academician Dong Jianhua (1918-2001) was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a renowned master of TCM internal medicine. During his lifetime he served as chief physician and doctoral supervisor at Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. In 1970, Academician Dong…

Although no drug can yet cure Alzheimer's disease, some drugs can improve patients' clinical symptoms. Of course, treating Alzheimer's is not only about medication; more importantly, family members need some knowledge of the disease and daily caregiving skills. Many non-pharmacological methods can ease symptoms—such as…

Soufeng Wan (Wind-Searching Pill) comes from the Ming-dynasty Confucian physician Wu Min's Fushou Jingfang (Essential Longevity Formulas). Its composition: gastrodia tuber (tianma) 96g, scrophularia root (xuanshen) 93g, Dioscorea hypoglauca (bixie, ground into powder) 93g, Eucommia bark (duzhong, wine-fried to remove the threads) 105g, prepared aconite…

Research by investigators at the University of Sydney, Australia, into constipated patients shows that chronic constipation may cause intellectual decline. The researchers believe that intestinal bacteria break down undigested protein into toxic substances such as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, histamine, and indole; these toxins are normally…