May 9, 2012

May 9, 2012

1. Chujing Shangqing asks: What causes dizziness? Can yin deficiency and yang excess lead to dizziness? /273
2. Pang Min asks: Is early-stage syringomyelia curable? /273
3. Ruya asks: A 63-year-old patient has involuntary twitching in the right limbs. What’s going on? /273
4. Hui Zhi Wan Yi asks: Mycoplasma infection, with coughing at night and upon waking in the morning, lasting for a long time. What should I do? /274
5. Chengmeng asks: For patients with sensorineural hearing loss, what medication can maintain their current hearing level? /274
6. Xiao Ke asks: In autumn and winter, my palms and soles feel cold; in spring and summer, it’s stuffy and hot. What’s going on, and how should I treat it? /274
7. Li Li asks: As soon as the temperature rises, I get dizzy, headache, and nasal itching. What’s causing this? /274
8. Anonymous asks: My mother’s heel pain is so severe she can’t even put weight on it. What’s going on, and what tests should be done? /274
9. Pingping Pingshui Xiangfeng asks: My mother’s head was exposed to wind during the postpartum period, and now she suffers from headaches. How should this be treated? /275
10. Min asks: Is this follicular keratosis? What medications are most effective? /275
11. Devil Autumn asks: Whenever I smell floral scents, I get dizzy. Is it an allergy? Why does this happen? /275
12. Zhang Xiaoqiang asks: I suffer from insomnia. Could you please advise on how to treat it?

/275 13. Zhenzhen asks: My mother has cerebral artery spasm and frequent dizziness.

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Blood sugar—what should I do? /276 14. He Ying asks: If I stand for long periods, my right knee joint starts to hurt. What disease could this be? /276 15. Hu Quanliang asks: Is there a treatment for motor neuron disease?

/276 16. Winter Memories asks: I’m 62 years old and have hyperthyroidism. In recent months, I’ve often felt heartburn. What’s going on? /276 17. Li Yunqing asks: I’m 20 years old this year, and my hearing has slightly declined. What should I do? /277
18. Shallow Love and Tranquility asks: I’ve had oral ulcers for seven days. What should I do? /277
19. Silent Lamb asks: How should vulvar itching be treated? /277

May 14, 2012

1. Only in the Deep Chamber Unnoticed asks: Are there any other ways to alleviate scalp itch and excessive oiliness? /278
2. Wang San asks: What should I do if my one-year-old daughter has prolonged constipation?

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3. Zhou Zihang asks: There’s a feeling of fullness and bloating near the left rib cage close to the armpit, along with frequent belching. What’s causing this, and how should it be treated? /278
4. Tan Feng asks: Rhinitis and tonsillitis—how can they be prevented and treated, and what diseases might result if left untreated? /278
5. Qiu Yanzǐ asks: I rear-ended another car on the highway? /279
6. qgf asks: There’s a lump at the fracture site. Can it still grow? Does such a large child know when to feel full? /279
7. Rainy Orange asks: I’ve developed watery blisters. What symptom is this, and how should it be treated? /279
8. Zhang Ran asks: Is lymphoma hereditary, or is there a chance of cure? Will it recur? /279
9. Chao asks: A patient with hyperthyroidism suddenly developed something like goosebumps on their neck. What’s going on? /280
10. Prince Xue asks: There’s some bruising on the left side of the navel. What’s going on? Is the navel on the right side indicative of hepatitis? /280
11. Fairy Trace asks: Urticaria keeps recurring. Since the child can’t drink traditional Chinese medicine, how should it be treated? /280
12. Red Shirt Without Buttons asks: Can acne caused by irregular menstruation be cured? How should it be treated? /280
13. Yang Faping asks: I’ve had numbness and pain on the outer sides of both hip joints for seventeen to eighteen years. What’s going on? /281
14. Those Beautiful Memories asks: The skin on my calves has scale-like patterns. How can I relieve this? /281 15. Fany asks: Tonsillitis issues. /281

May 16, 2012

1. Su Xiaoyu asks: General fatigue, dizziness, lack of energy, sleepiness, and massive hair loss? /282
2. Hui Zhi Wan Yi asks: My father has epilepsy, and I suspect he may have a glioma? /282
3. Er Ge asks: I’m 34 years old this year, and my mouth tastes bitter after hard work. I want to drink water. What’s causing this? /282
4. Sun Fengxia asks: Liver cirrhosis turning into liver cancer—is there a good treatment? /282
5. Li Na asks: A 76-year-old patient has squamous cell carcinoma in the lungs. Are there any good traditional Chinese medicine treatments? /283
6. Kou Mei asks: There’s a cyst 2 cm above the baby’s Adam’s apple. What methods can eliminate it? /283
7. Miaolandi asks: After anal abscess surgery, something is oozing out. What should I do? /283
8. LIWHLILY529 asks: Summer is sheer torture for her. What’s going on? /283
9. Xiao Qiong asks: Recently, my dizziness has been extremely severe, seriously affecting my daily life. /284
10. Jiangnan asks: My daughter is eleven years old, and her urine shows 2+ blood. What should I do? /284
11. Liu Yizhang asks: There’s a sensation of something large in one side of my throat, making it difficult to swallow or spit out. What should I do? /284
12. Wu Shengbiao asks: There’s inflammation in the ileum. Can I drink Qinghun San? What else should I add? /284 13. Xi Xi asks: My hand was pricked by bamboo, and I received penicillin. It’s been almost a month, but my hand is still swollen. What’s going on? /285
13. Cheng Shengqi asks: At the hospital, they found that the cervical spine’s physiological curvature has straightened. What should I do? /285
14. Mei Ling asks: A 42-year-old woman has pain in the left hip bone, shifting toward the right center, along with numbness and pain in her left arm and back. /285
15. qgf asks: Vomiting after eating, tonsillitis? /286 17. Song Xiaoxian asks: How should geographic tongue be treated?

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May 17, 2012

1. Pingping Pingshui Xiangfeng asks: I always have gingivitis and oral ulcers. Are there any good treatments? /286

2. Mingxiu Jiayuan asks: I’m four months pregnant, and I often have diarrhea, vomiting, and sometimes intestinal pain. Is there any way to help? /286

3. Mingxiu Jiayuan asks: My father is 50 years old and was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2009?

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4. Luan Jie asks: I can’t smell anything, and my nose is blocked. Will surgery completely cure this? /287 5. Li Lei asks: I often sneeze, my nasal mucosa bleeds, and I still have nasal congestion and yellow mucus when I wake up. How should I treat this? /287

5. Jin Cui asks: Multiple metastatic tumors, but no primary cancer site has been found. How should I treat this? /287 7. Kelly asks: My voice has been hoarse all along. How should I treat this? /288

6. Han Linjun asks: Dizziness and vomiting—patient has lacunar cerebral infarction. How should I treat this? /288

7. Feilong asks: My back often hurts and feels stiff, my neck is also stiff, and my legs often go numb. How should I treat this? /288

May 19, 2012

1. Wu Xinming asks: Does wearing contact lenses harm the eyes? Can I still undergo laser eye surgery? /288
2. Zeng Duansheng asks: Can hepatitis B be cured? /289 3. Qin asks: There’s a vascular tumor inside the skull. Are there any traditional Chinese medicine treatments? /289 4. Phoenix Soaring asks: Patient has prostate pain, and there’s a hard object palpable near the bladder, causing unbearable pain. What should I do? /289 5. Zhong Wuchang asks: My face often itches, and small blister-like pimples appear. What disease is this? /289 6. Hengheng Niu asks: There’s an intestinal-type mass in the left lower abdomen, and it’s excruciatingly painful when pressed. Should I undergo colonoscopy? /289

May 21, 2012

1. Romantic Ada asks: How can recurrent gout be completely cured?

/290 2. Li Meimei asks: How should psoriasis be treated? /290
3. Xiang Huan asks: A classmate has small bumps near the anus, about 5 cm long and 1 cm wide? /290
4. Lü Yan asks: My left thigh inner side is always painful, especially at night, as if I’ve pulled a muscle. Walking is uncomfortable. What’s causing this? /290
5. Gutian Tian asks: A seamstress works continuously on a machine, and both feet are swollen, making it impossible to wear shoes. What should I do? /291 6. Zhang Jianmei asks: I started being unable to walk at age twenty. Could it be muscular weakness? /291
7. Zi Mo asks: My lower abdomen alternates between pain on the left and right sides. What could be the cause? What tests should I do? /291
8. Xiao Ding asks: I’ve had a fungal infection for over a year, using Daktarin and Fuci, but the effects keep coming and going. What should I do? /291

9. Pingping Pingshui Xiangfeng asks: Is this vaginitis? /291
10. Lower-Class People asks: I suddenly wake up during sleep, startle, scream, and cry uncontrollably, then fall asleep again after about five minutes. /292
11. Lower-Class People asks: Is this chronic pharyngitis? How should it be treated? /292 12. LiLi asks: Around 26 days into pregnancy, I have abdominal pain—intermittent pain, like I’m about to get my period. /292 13. ANN asks: She has hypertension, and her scalp often hurts. What’s going on, and how should I treat it? /292
12. Little Panda asks: Are there any effective methods for treating dysmenorrhea? /293 15. Home Beef asks: I’m 60 years old, and I’ve walked down the whole street without understanding why. What could this be? /293 16. zsx asks: How should leukopenia caused by captopril be treated? The patient mainly feels fatigued and weak. /293 17. Liu Hongcheng asks: Right elbow Kaposi’s sarcoma—what should I do? /293

May 23, 2012

1. Wudang asks: Recurrent colds? /294 2. He Ting asks: My daughter is three months old, and she’s had dacryocystitis in her right eye since birth, and it still hasn’t improved. What should I do? /294
2. Zhu Yan asks: Can carotid body tumors be left untreated? I’m 22 years old, and last year the hospital mistakenly made an incision on my left neck. /294 4. Qin asks: Intracranial cavernous hemangioma—how should it be treated in traditional Chinese medicine? /294 5. freebird asks: My father has been suffering from insomnia for three to four years. What’s a good solution? /295
3. Chen Yuzuo asks: Persistent reduction in menstrual flow for two years, with normal periods. What should I do? /295
4. Dan Yangyang asks: Pelvic effusion over 70 ml—what should I do? /295 8. Wu Lingling asks: Vascular headache for ten years—what methods can control the attacks? /295
5. Liu Xiaohong asks: My baby is seven months old, and now refuses complementary foods, while his back sweats a lot. What’s causing this? /295 10. Peng Wenjuan asks: If I want to get pregnant, should I take vitamin E and folic acid together, and for how long? /296 11. Chujing Shangqing asks: Gastrointestinal-type cold with breathing difficulties—what’s causing this? /296
6. Phoenix Soaring asks: Strengthened CT scan results? /296
7. Fire Dragon Min Duo asks: My son is ten years old and never eats well.

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Food—eating less, no appetite. /296

May 24, 2012

1. Yangyang asks: My feet have been particularly dry lately, and they’re peeling. What’s going on? /297

2. Woman Who Has Been Hurt by Love asks: What causes red bumps? /297

3. Dandelion asks: My lower back on the left side hurts, and I can’t bend over. My esophagus feels very blocked. What’s causing this? /297

4. Deng asks: Recently, I often notice yellow and cloudy urine, along with lower back soreness. What’s going on? /297

5. Du Jingjing asks: I often have unexplained fevers. How should I prevent them? /298

6. Zhu Ge asks: Left-sided epidermal mucinous carcinoma of the forehead. After surgery and radiotherapy, what tests should be done during follow-up? /298

7. Wu Zongli asks: I’ve developed many red rashes. What methods can cure them? /298

8. Shan Shan asks: Why use Xuefu Zhuyu Tang for vascular headaches and neuralgic headaches? /298

9. Chenchen asks: Treatment for roseola? /299 10. Yang Xiaoliang asks: My child is over six months old, and three days after vaccination, he develops a high fever, which goes down and then comes back. What’s going on? /299 11. yekm asks: Severe esophageal injury, small esophageal mass.

/299 12. Na Shui—asks: My period dates are normal, but the flow is very light, only two days each time, and then it’s over. /299
13. Liao Zhonghua asks: I have hepatitis B, type B, with normal liver function, but the virus load is 10 to the seventh power. Can antiviral treatment be administered? /300

May 28, 2012

1. Shangguan Xuanwu asks: My child has had M2a leukemia for two years. Could Old Master Pei take a look? /300
2. Li Meimei asks: Psoriasis has lasted for 7–8 years, and it still hasn’t healed. Will the condition worsen, and how should it be treated? /300
3. Gobi Prince asks: Frequent dry mouth, with bumps on the lips and nostrils, and lots of dreams. What should I do? /300
4. Ma Jifu asks: I’m 30 years old, 1.65 meters tall, and weigh 46 kilograms. What should I do now? /301
5. Yao Yao asks: Can ranitidine be taken for a long time? /301 6. Na Shui asks: What should I do about irregular menstruation? /301
6. Horse Crossing the River asks: Should I undergo surgery to remove the tonsils, or should I try conservative traditional Chinese medicine treatment? /302
7. Peng Mingxiang asks: Is there a good traditional Chinese medicine treatment plan for mantle cell lymphoma?

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9. 0ZJ asks: The hepatitis B test shows my antibodies aren’t very strong. Should I get another hepatitis B vaccine? /302

10. 0ZJ asks: Vaccine-related questions? /303

11. Li Ya asks: My blood pressure is low. Can I use traditional Chinese medicine to regulate it? My stomach isn’t good—what should I do? /303

12. Moon asks: Advanced lung cancer, with worsening lung pain. What good methods can alleviate his suffering? /303

13. Wanderer asks: My blood pressure has consistently been 170/95 mmHg, and it won’t come down. What’s going on? /303

14. Mo Sha asks: Stomach bloating, acid reflux, nausea, no vomiting, easy fatigue, sometimes accompanied by cold sweats, /304

15. Nie Xin asks: Treatment plan for allergic purpura—how can recurrence be prevented? Will it affect the kidneys? /304

16. Mei’er asks: I’m 31 years old, and my uterine fibroids measure 4.0×4.3×3.9. Will this affect pregnancy? /304

17. Dandelion asks: Pain on the left side of the lower back or in the abdomen, combined with a feeling of blockage in the esophagus. Is there a connection between these two? /304

18. Zhangye asks: A 21-year-old male has tuberculous pleurisy. How should it be treated? /305

19. Yan Dong asks: Patients with cholinergic urticaria don’t develop hives now, but they’re still very itchy. What’s going on? /305

20. Phoenix Soaring asks: A two-year-and-nine-month-old child has occasionally runny nose and slight redness in the throat these past few days. What should I do? /305

21. Hand-in-Hand asks: I’m afraid of the cold all over my body, especially my back, which feels very cold. I sweat a lot, and when it’s cold, I pee very frequently? /305