Veteran TCM Doctor Experience ⁽³³⁾

Professor Yin Huihe had many empirical formulas; "Qingjie Biaore Fang" (Formula to Clear and Release Exterior Heat) is one of them. It was Old Master Yin's common formula for externally contracted wind-heat cold with cough and sore throat, and is suitable for patients with upper…

Professor Yin Huihe (1923–2012) was one of the towering figures of contemporary Chinese TCM. His father Yin Bingzhong was a famous physician in southern China. Professor Yin Huihe read medical books with his father from childhood, absorbing the tradition by osmosis, and was keen to…

Professor Qian Boxuan was a renowned TCM gynecologist who treated many difficult gynecological conditions in his lifetime. Dr. Qian Boxuan's Gynecological Case Records preserves four cases of uterine fibroids treated by Dr. Qian, from which one can glimpse his general approach. Case 1. Su had…

Vaginal bleeding in women outside the menstrual period is collectively called benglou in TCM—metrorrhagia and metrostaxis. There are many causes. Modern medicine holds that female genital inflammation, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, adenomyosis, and gynecological tumors may all cause benglou symptoms. In addition, some tumor patients develop…

Veteran TCM physician Wang Guosan was born in 1930 and hailed from Hebei Province. He was the honorary director and chief physician of the Tangshan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Hebei. He was an early disciple of the late renowned veteran TCM physician Yue Meizhong.

In 1975, Professor Zhu Chenyu participated in a consultation to rescue a late-stage patient with cirrhotic ascites. The patient had already developed hepatic encephalopathy (hepatic coma): confusion, incoherent speech, agitation and violence. Western medicine measured a very high blood ammonia, and the condition was already…

Professor Yu Rencun was a towering veteran physician of integrated Chinese-Western cancer treatment in China. He first studied Western medicine, then, in response to the 'Western doctors study Chinese medicine' call, took up TCM. In practice he gradually focused his work on the field of…

Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction is an empirical formula of Wang Qingren, a physician of the Qing dynasty. It was originally recorded in Wang Qingren's work Yilin Gaicuo (Correction of Errors Among Physicians). In Yilin Gaicuo, Wang Qingren used Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction for the treatment of many…

Radiotherapy is a common and very effective treatment for cervical cancer, but it often induces sequelae, among which radiation proctitis and radiation cystitis are the most common. Radiotherapy sequelae are quite distressing; some patients are tormented by them for the rest of their lives. I…

I once came across a late case treated by the veteran TCM physician Kong Sibo: a patient with widely metastatic advanced intestinal cancer, whom Dr. Kong kept alive for six and a half years using modified Wuwei Xiaodu Yin (Five-Ingredient Antidotal Beverage). A few years…