Anti-Cancer Basics ⁽⁴⁸⁾

Once people have an incurable disease, they easily believe all kinds of extreme views. Eating a sweet-potato diet to fight cancer is one of them. Quite a few cancer patients have asked me whether sweet potatoes are an anticancer food and whether they should persistently…

Patients often ask me this; some even say that certain web articles claim anti-inflammatory drugs can treat cancer. I am writing this article to set out my understanding of the question. Cancer is sometimes called "the wound that will not heal." When our tissues (such…

Can cancer be cured? What determines a cancer patient's survival time? Early cancer can often be cured; in intermediate and late stages, cures are fewer. Treatment of most intermediate- and late-stage cancer patients (especially advanced or end-stage) should aim to prolong life and improve quality…

Patients often seek my help after a benign tumor or benign nodule is found in their body, hoping I will use anti-malignant-tumor drugs to treat the benign tumor or nodule. Except for some patients whose tumor or nodule is very difficult to distinguish as benign…

An older brother I know is a die-hard TCM fan. After he developed late-stage malignant melanoma (already with multiple metastases at diagnosis), he refused Western treatment and used only TCM, and has now survived twenty years. Recently he bought some yellow rice wine at the…

I still remember that when I had just achieved complete remission (the tumor had completely disappeared and cancer markers normalized), I shared in a group chat: "Don't look at the fact that I recovered on Chinese medicine—that doesn't mean you can too." I said that…

The liver is the body's second-largest vital organ and its largest gland, weighing about 1.36 kg and accounting for 1.5%–2.5% of body weight. The liver is the largest digestive gland in the body, with important and complex metabolic functions. The liver has a dual blood…

Induction-differentiation therapy refers to a treatment method in which, under the action of certain in vivo or in vitro differentiation-inducing agents, malignant tumor cells are induced to evolve and differentiate toward normal cells. Through induced differentiation, the biological characteristics of malignant tumor cells (including markers…

Almost everyone who has studied TCM knows of a treatment called "fighting poison with poison." As a four-character idiom, the phrase is known to every man, woman, and child in the Chinese-speaking world. But the great majority of people understand only its surface meaning, unable…

Cancer patients or their families often consult me about whether they should avoid certain foods while taking Chinese medicine and in daily life, and whether they need to take some nutritional supplements. This question is hard to answer in general; today I will write an…