by Simon Yu, MD | Oct 18, 2022 | Chronic Disease, Dental, History of Medicine, Parasites/Fungi, Therapies
Let me reintroduce an old forgotten and neglected medical therapy called Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) developed by Mexican military surgeon, Donato Perez Garcia, Sr., MD in 1932. He was able to cure many medical conditions from asthma, psoriasis, migraine...
by Simon Yu, MD | Aug 23, 2021 | Chronic Disease, COVID-19, History of Medicine
A hot topic today is similarities between long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). There is sympathy and support between these groups of patients on social media, and patients and clinicians who treat them are determined to gather,...
by Simon Yu, MD | Jul 19, 2021 | Dental, History of Medicine
Dentists have no sense of humor! At least, that is what I think. If you know any genuinely humorous dentists, let me know. I will buy her/him a drink of their choice. When I tell them at a meeting that lots of medical crimes are committed in the dental chair with...
by Simon Yu, MD | Apr 15, 2021 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, History of Medicine, Medical Acupuncture
Three years ago, Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, now Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery at the Washington University School of Medicine, wrote, “The Seventh Sense” in the Journal of Experimental Medicine and Scientific American. I was excited reading his...
by Simon Yu, MD | Aug 3, 2020 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Cancer, Case Stories, History of Medicine, Medical Acupuncture
Medical dogma held that stress and lifestyle factors were the major causes of peptic ulcer disease. Australian Dr. Barry Marshall and pathologist Robin Warren rebutted this theory through self-experimentation – Marshall drank an H. pylori cocktail to cause the...
by Simon Yu, MD | Jun 26, 2019 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Chronic Disease, History of Medicine
The term “evidence based medicine” (EBM) first appeared in a paper by Dr. Gordon Guyatt et al. as a new approach to teaching the practice of medicine in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) in November 1992. The paper emphasized the examination of...
