Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment ⁽³⁾

How exactly should TCM improve its clinical efficacy? I believe this is a question every clinically practicing TCM physician is earnestly seeking to answer. Patients, patient families, and even TCM colleagues are always consulting me on such questions. I myself am only a half-filled bucket…

Xiaoluo Wan (Scrofula-Dispersing Pill) is a famous formula from Yixue Xinwu (Medical Mind-Awakening) for treating phlegm-nodules and scrofula (various benign and malignant tumors and tuberculous lesions). It consists of three herbs—Xuanshen (Scrophularia), Zhebeimu (Zhejiang Fritillary), and Shengmuli (raw Oyster shell)—and treats scrofula and phlegm-nodules due…

TCM as a whole is a systematic and holistic (also "fuzzy") medicine, and in treating many diseases it has advantages Western medicine lacks. Especially its pattern-differentiation approach, when confronting diseases Western medicine cannot diagnose or treat effectively, can start from holistic differentiation, find a solution,…