by Simon Yu, MD | May 17, 2021 | Case Stories, Medical Acupuncture, Military Learning
In classical acupuncture, the Spleen/Pancreas is named the principal organ of digestion. It is responsible for transforming food into nourishment and for transporting digested foods and fluids from the stomach, and distributing it into the body. If you cannot supply...
by Simon Yu, MD | Apr 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Military Learning, Parasites/Fungi
Coronavirus is a perfect storm pandemic virus – novel so unknown to the human immune system, easy to spread even when asymptomatic, sometimes hard to detect, unpredictable, and especially deadly in those with preexisting conditions. We lack sufficient testing...
by Simon Yu, MD | Mar 18, 2018 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, History of Medicine, Military Learning
This is my sincere attempt to clarify and/or entangle my two previous separate articles, “Duh Vinci Code for Tasmanian Devils: Cracking the Cancer Code,” and “Enhanced Interrogation Technique for Parasites by a Theoretical Internist: ‘Pop’ goes the Universe.”...
by Simon Yu, MD | Mar 13, 2017 | Military Learning, Parasites/Fungi
In February 2017, I saw a 69 year old Vietnam veteran from Asheville, North Carolina with a high suspicion for parasite infection. He was told by his doctor that he has Blastocystis hominis and other undefined and unidentifiable parasites based on stool testing. The...
by Simon Yu, MD | May 30, 2016 | Dental, Military Learning
One Hundred Years of Solitude, a popular novel written by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, tells of the multi-generational story of the Buendia family in a town called Marcondo, metaphor for Colombia. Forty years...
by Simon Yu, MD | Nov 15, 2015 | Military Learning
August 1999. In the middle of a hot muggy summer at Fort Polk, Louisiana, I was doing my US Army Reserve annual training. My home station is the 21st General Hospital in St. Louis. I was assigned to the 325th Field Hospital in Kansas City. My mission was to support...
