Anti-Cancer ⁽³²⁾

I. Overview of Colorectal Cancer Colorectal cancer includes colon cancer and rectal cancer. Its incidence and mortality show a clear upward trend, especially in developed countries, and increasingly in China's more developed cities. It is a typical cancer associated with nutritional excess and lifestyle. Worldwide,…

When treating cancer in clinical practice, Professor Wang Pei preferred to use raw Chinese herbs rather than their processed (paozhi) versions. For example, raw Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma), raw Heshouwu (Polygoniflori Multiflori Radix), raw Xiangfu (Cyperi Rhizoma), raw Huangqi (Astragali Radix), raw Yiyiren (Coicis Semen), raw…

"Fighting poison with poison" is one of the major principles of TCM cancer treatment; in virtually every TCM anti-tumor prescription, there are more or less some poisonous herbs. Practice has proved that fighting poison with poison is also one of the TCM anti-cancer means with…

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…

Professor Wang Pei studied clinically under Professor Fang Mingqian for twenty years and received Professor Fang's true transmission. Professor Fang Mingqian was a direct-line descendant of Zhou Shenzhai, a famous Ming-dynasty physician who treated internal damage. Zhou Shenzhai began studying medicine in middle age after…

Li Zhongzi (style name Shicai, hao Nian'e), a TCM physician of the Ming dynasty, showed unusual talent from youth and was exceptionally bright. Born into a scholarly family—his father was a jinshi of the Wanli era, 17th year—Li Zhongzi received a good education from childhood.

TCM broadly divides the causes of human disease into three categories: internal causes, external causes, and causes that are neither internal nor external. This division already existed in early TCM classics such as the Huangdi Neijing and the Jinkui Yaolue; the Song dynasty physician Chen…

Sun Bingyan (1920– ) was a native of Shandong, born into three generations of TCM practitioners. He practiced medicine in Korea for more than ten years, returned to China in 1953, and from 1957 devoted himself to the research and treatment of malignant tumors. He…

TCM as a whole is a systematic and holistic (also "fuzzy") medicine, and in treating many diseases it has advantages Western medicine lacks. Especially its pattern-differentiation approach, when confronting diseases Western medicine cannot diagnose or treat effectively, can start from holistic differentiation, find a solution,…

Introduction to Baqia The Chinese medicinal herb Baqia (Smilax china L., Chinaroot Greenbrier) is also known as Jinganggu, Jingangteng, Tie Lingjiao, Jingangtou, Jingangci, and by other names. It belongs to the genus Smilax of the family Liliaceae. Clinically the rhizome is most often used, though…