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 | Mar 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Parasites/Fungi
Viruses are technically parasites, a gray area between living and nonliving: they cannot replicate on their own but do so in living cells. They have been evolving with us and some of them are encoded as a part of our genetic code from the point of evolution of...
by Simon Yu, MD | Jun 13, 2014 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Cancer
In case you didn’t know, about 70 percent of the wild Tasmanian devil population has disappeared from Tasmania Island due to a facial tumor. This has occurred just since 1996 when it was first recognized. Tasmanian devils are a carnivorous marsupial from Australia. If...
by Simon Yu, MD | Feb 12, 2007 | Chronic Disease, Self-Help
Awareness of acid reflux and promotion of anti-acid medications have reached a new height for the public. This has been stimulated by clever commercial advertisements in the media and through medical educational promotions in major medical journals. Acid reflux has...