Anti-Cancer Folk Formula ⁽¹⁵⁾

This is an umbilical-therapy TCM formula, shared by a fellow leiomyosarcoma patient, for treating diarrhea caused by chemotherapy (chemo or targeted therapy). She herself is taking targeted drugs for her tumor, which caused side effects such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. She found this formula…

I once came across a late case treated by the veteran TCM physician Kong Sibo: a patient with widely metastatic advanced intestinal cancer, whom Dr. Kong kept alive for six and a half years using modified Wuwei Xiaodu Yin (Five-Ingredient Antidotal Beverage). A few years…

The late Zhu Chenyu, former director of the TCM Department at Beijing Union Medical College Hospital and a well-known veteran TCM physician, once mentioned that he had treated an elderly woman with a long-unresolved cough. She had been treated by several doctors without effect, and…

Minor Bupleurum Decoction (Xiao Chaihu Tang) and Major Bupleurum Decoction (Da Chaihu Tang) are two famous formulas from the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) by the Eastern Han dynasty physician Zhang Zhongjing. When some cancer patients develop cancer fever, Minor or Major Bupleurum Decoction…

There is a famous saying in TCM: "A folk prescription from the seaside can put a famous physician to shame." It is not at all rare for a small single-herb remedy to cure a disease that a learned famous doctor cannot. Not only in TCM—famous…