Breast Cancer ⁽³²⁾

Wangbuliuxing is the seed of Vaccaria segetalis (family Caryophyllaceae); Vaccaria is a common weed in wheat fields, widely distributed in China except the south. In folk practice Wangbuliuxing is a lactagogue; a folk proverb says, "Wangbuliuxing, taken by women, makes milk flow freely." For postpartum…

Liu Shaowu (1907–2004), former chief physician of the Taiyuan Institute of Chinese Medicine, once treated a breast cancer patient with the following formula: Chaihu (Bupleurum) 15 g, Huangqin (Scutellaria) 15 g, Suzi (Perilla fruit) 30 g, Dangshen (Codonopsis) 30 g, Xiakucao (Prunella) 30 g, Wangbuliuxing…

Approximately 150 to 200 million years ago, the common ancestor of all mammals—the cynodont, which lived in the Triassic period—appeared on Earth. Mammals evolved from reptile-like animals; they are the most structurally advanced and physiologically complete animals in the animal kingdom. Most mammals are covered…

Zhao, female, born October 1980, from Baoding, Hebei Province. First visit on April 18, 2019. A nodule was found on a physical examination in November 2016; in December, while breastfeeding, she noticed localized redness and swelling in the outer upper quadrant of the right breast,…

Not only women's breasts develop; in some men the breast tissue also enlarges. But male breast enlargement is not a normal physiological phenomenon—it is a disease, called gynecomastia or male breast hypertrophy. Gynecomastia is classified as primary or secondary. Primary gynecomastia is mostly due to…

Ermiao Wan and Erzhi Wan are two commonly used TCM pills; their formulas are extremely simple, yet their therapeutic effects are outstanding. Ermiao Wan is composed of equal parts of Huangbo (Phellodendri Cortex) and Cangzhu (Atractylodis Rhizoma); Erzhi Wan is composed of equal parts of…

The patient, a woman surnamed Sun, was 41 years old, a permanent resident of Tianjin working in international trade, with no history of exposure to pollutants or radioactive substances. She had advanced breast cancer with lung and bone metastases. In 2010 she was treated for…

A Mao's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. This illness completely changed her life, and she became depressed. She hoped I could help her resolve not only her physical suffering but her spiritual suffering as well. On the day she first came…

Except for God, everyone else can only win our trust through data. —Dr. Bernie Fisher Modern medical textbooks are updated very quickly, with a new edition appearing every few years, and each edition differs considerably from the previous one. As times develop and more epidemiological…

Usually, breast cancer patients need to be definitively diagnosed by fine-needle (or core-needle) biopsy or by pathology after direct surgical resection. The pathology report will include an immunohistochemical analysis, in which several markers are crucial to the subsequent treatment of breast cancer patients; these markers…