TCM Internal Medicine ⁽³³⁾

Many late-stage patients have reached the point of being too deficient to tolerate tonification; taking tonics actually makes them worse. The first patient I saw, apart from my own mother, was a terminal colorectal cancer patient. At the time, Western medicine gave him only a…

Many famous Chinese medical works emphasize that, besides taking the medicine, one should induce moderate sweating. For example, Guizhi Tang in the Shanghan Lun requires "warm covering to induce sweating"—that is, covering up with a blanket to sweat. Under the "Wuling San" entry in the…

Constipation must not be treated indiscriminately with laxatives. Patients are divided into excess-pattern and deficiency-pattern: excess patients may be purged, while deficiency patients should be supplemented. There is no supplementation method for excess constipation, and no purging method for deficiency constipation; when excess and deficiency…