TCM Wellness ⁽¹⁴⁾

As a chronic-disease patient and a student of medicine, I am aware of my own various potential risks of cancerous transformation. In the future I may die of one of many cancers—liver, lung, gastric, intestinal, prostate—because for years I have been tormented by related chronic…

Every person's life may have many themes, and different themes at different ages, but one theme no one can avoid: death. Death is our final destination, yet the process of dying differs greatly from person to person. Some die with ease, some in wretchedness; some…

Eating with measure, living with routine; outwardly active, inwardly still; a cheerful mood, balanced work and rest; guarding against harm from medication. These twenty-four characters were summarized by the late Ningbo TCM physician Wei Changchun. When I read them in his work I deeply agreed,…

In Laozi's Daodejing, the way of health cultivation he advocates is: attain the utmost emptiness; hold fast to genuine stillness. Utmost emptiness is the state of being utterly void. Genuine stillness is the state of being unmoved and secure as Mount Tai. If a person…