Arsenic ⁽⁴⁾

After more than two decades of research, the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, has developed a fully oral treatment regimen known colloquially as "AAA," consisting of oral arsenic trioxide, all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and ascorbic acid. It has shown excellent efficacy…

In Water Margin, one of China's four great classical novels, Pan Jinlian, the sister-in-law of Wu Song, poisons Wu Song's elder brother Wu Dalang with arsenic, triggering Wu Song's revenge. Arsenic (pishuang) is a highly toxic Chinese medicinal, belonging to the category of violent poisons;…

Arsenic (pi shuang) has, since ancient times, been a toxin-attacking-with-toxin drug used in TCM clinical practice. The contemporary clinician Zhang Tingdong introduced it into the treatment of leukemia. Professor Zhang Tingdong is the founder of using arsenic to treat leukemia, and his achievement is one…

The first is arsenic therapy, introduced by the granddaughter of a lung-cancer patient. A fellow patient she knew used this arsenic therapy for late-stage lung cancer, with marked results—the liver metastatic lesion shrank. But this therapy carries extreme risk; it is a "using poison to…