Breast Cancer ⁽³²⁾

I am often asked: can a bad mood, being easily angered or irritable, or tense interpersonal relationships, cause breast cancer? This is a question many women care about, and a great many TCM books also name a bad mood as the chief culprit behind breast…

Breast hyperplasia refers to benign hyperplasia of the interstitium of the female breast and is one of the common gynecological diseases. It occurs most often between the ages of 25 and 40, though it is also seen after menopause. Its cause is mostly related to…

The Mayo Clinic in the United States is among the world's top medical centers today; one could say that Mayo's medical education and research represent the pinnacle of modern medicine. In recent years, wealthy patients from China have increasingly traveled to the Mayo Clinic for…

Xiaolou Loubei San is an empirical formula of modern TCM external medicine, from the textbook Chinese External Medicine. Its composition and dosages are: Chaihu 10 g, Danggui 10 g, Baishao 10 g, Fuling 10 g, Zhebeimu 10 g, Fabanxia 10 g, Dannanxing (Bile Arisaema) 10…

Breast cancer is among the more treatable tumor diseases, but once it ulcerates it becomes hard to treat. Since ancient times, various TCM external-medicine classics have repeatedly recorded: "Once ru yan (breast rock, i.e. breast cancer) ulcerates, it is untreatable," showing that once breast cancer…

Patient history: December 2001: left breast mass excised; pathology unknown. Later the surgical site felt constantly uncomfortable, the wound inside turned hard, the patient felt fatigued and gradually wasted away. May 9, 2003: re-examination confirmed breast cancer; left breast modified radical mastectomy performed. Pathology showed…

Ma Peizhi was a famous TCM physician of the late Qing Dynasty, especially skilled in TCM external medicine. He studied medicine for sixteen years under his grandfather Ma Shengsan; because of his strong memory, wide reading and visits to famous teachers, his art was profound…

Rearranged from an old work. Shiliu Liuqi Yin (Sixteen-Ingredient Qi-Flowing Drink): Chuanxiong (Ligusticum), Danggui (Angelica), Shaoyao (Paeonia), Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia), Renshen (Ginseng), Muxiang (Aucklandia), raw Huangqi (Astragalus), Rougui (Cinnamon bark), Jiegeng (Platycodon), Baizhi (Angelica dahurica), Binglang (Areca), Houpo (Magnolia bark), Wuyao (Lindera), Gancao (Glycyrrhiza), Zisu (Perilla),…

Overview of breast cancer An increasing number of patients are troubled by breast cancer, which ranks as the number one tumor among women worldwide. Every year about 1.2 million women develop breast cancer and 500,000 women die of it. North America and Europe are high-incidence…

Liu Qing, president of DiDi and daughter of Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi, was rumored to have breast cancer; earlier, the well-known singer Yao Beina also died of breast cancer. These women who achieved brilliant success in their careers have now become targets of breast cancer.