Veteran TCM Doctor Experience ⁽³³⁾

Liu Bingfan was born in 1910 in Miluo, Hunan Province. He was a researcher of Chinese medicine who practiced for decades and was expert in internal, pediatric and gynecological Chinese medicine. He left a case record of treating a breast-cancer patient named Su. Su, female,…

Dr. Pu Fuzhou had an empirical formula for rapid pain relief called 'Sansheng Qutong Fang' (Three-Raw Pain-Dispelling Formula). It consists of equal parts raw Wutou (Aconiti Radix; Caowu/Aconiti Kusnezoffii Radix may also be used), raw Tiannanxing (Arisaematis Rhizoma) and raw Baifuzi (Typhonii Rhizoma). Preparation: grind…

Dr. Zhang Xijun was born in 1913 and was a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He began practicing medicine formally in 1930 and accumulated more than fifty years of clinical experience over his lifetime. He served as director of the First and Second TCM Hospitals…

Professor Zhang Xuewen once treated a six-month-old infant with congenital hydrocephalus present since birth. The patient, a child surnamed Yan, first consulted Professor Zhang on January 23, 1975. After birth the head had been large, the complexion pale, the fontanelle bulging; the head was clearly…

Goiter is a common condition. In mild cases, only an enlargement of the thyroid gland in the neck is noticed; the swelling is soft rather than hard, and may be accompanied by nodules. When the goiter is very large, symptoms such as a sensation of…

Liu Shaowu (1907–2004), former chief physician of the Taiyuan Institute of Chinese Medicine, once treated a breast cancer patient with the following formula: Chaihu (Bupleurum) 15 g, Huangqin (Scutellaria) 15 g, Suzi (Perilla fruit) 30 g, Dangshen (Codonopsis) 30 g, Xiakucao (Prunella) 30 g, Wangbuliuxing…

Patient Yan, female, 64, from Wenling County, Zhejiang Province.First visit August 5, 1970. For several years the patient had frequently had vaginal bleeding, heavy in amount and foul in odor. Examination at the hospital's gynecology and obstetrics department confirmed late-stage cervical cancer. For days she…

An elderly doctor named Shang from Pingdingshan, Henan (to avoid disturbing him, his personal information will not be disclosed in detail), is now retired. Before retirement, he was a TCM physician at a hospital in Pingdingshan. He once used a unique fumigation-inhalation therapy he had…

In TCM external medicine, the toad is a treasure. Many external-medicine conditions rely on the toad's "using poison to attack poison" for treatment. The famous TCM educator Professor Wang Mianzhi, when lecturing on Formula Studies, once mentioned that in his childhood back home, when children…

Professor Shao Changrong was one of the pioneers in China of integrated Chinese-Western medicine for lung disease. Shao originally studied Western medicine, then responded to the national call to "study Chinese medicine as a Western-medicine physician," undergoing three years of full-time TCM study, and thereafter…