by Simon Yu, MD | May 15, 2009 | History of Medicine
Energy medicine is a new buzz word in the field of Alternative Medicine focusing on “new medicine based on quantum physics.” Is quantum physics’ wave-particle duality as relevant to human life and living systems as it is to the material world? A new generation of...
by Simon Yu, MD | Mar 15, 2008 | Chronic Disease, History of Medicine, Therapies
Every advanced society has had traditional medical care since the time of antiquity. The civilizations of Egypt, Greece, India, and China, each had their own unique medical problems and distinct traditional medical professionals. We may call them Egyptian Antiquity...
by Simon Yu, MD | Feb 15, 2008 | Self-Help
Claiming “Cure” for any chronic illness, especially cancer, has been a thorny issue for medical doctors for many years. However, you will hear many so-called “Alternative/Complementary Medicine” practitioners (many of them without a license to practice or with a mail...
by Simon Yu, MD | Nov 14, 2007 | Cancer
Is there such thing as a cancerous mind or cancer personality? Cancer patients, as a rule, are some of the nicest, decent people you will encounter in your life. I remember Mary, a 75-year-old lady who came to see me with a bronchial cough 20 years ago when I was...
by Simon Yu, MD | Jul 19, 2004 | Chronic Disease, Self-Help
Have you been to one doctor after another, one hospital after another, trying to figure out why you’re feeling so sick and nobody seems to know what’s wrong with you? So many times I’ve heard my patients bitterly complaining, “My doctor said everything is fine. Then,...
