Cancer ⁽¹⁰⁹⁾

If it hurts, it is not free-flowing; if it is free-flowing, it does not hurt. This saying is often quoted, and in TCM tumor treatment many physicians make blood-activating and stasis-resolving an important treatment principle. But applying this method to cancer has many hidden dangers.

Guipi Tang is a base formula I am very fond of in treating cancer. When pattern differentiation fits, I prefer it, and it almost always brings surprising results. Especially in patients who have undergone radiation and chemotherapy, as long as differentiation is correct, modified Guipi…

The five zang and six fu should be free-flowing; the exterior and interior, and the nutritive and defensive qi, should be harmonized. When zang-fu are free, there are no accumulations; when exterior-interior and nutritive-defensive are harmonized, phlegm-dampness is scant. Tangible cancer, in TCM view, mostly…

In clinical practice, I have again used modified Yanghe Tang to treat cancer with marked short-term effects: one patient with small-cell lung cancer and one with peritoneal mesothelioma. Judging from signs of yang deficiency such as aversion to cold, cold limbs, and anemia, I used…

Clinically, many late-stage cancer patients develop thirst to an almost unbearable degree; in the patients' own words, they want to soak themselves in water. This symptom has long been familiar in the case records of ancient wound physicians. In Wang Kentang's Zhengzhi Zhunsheng (Standards of…

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…

Mylabris (Banmao, the dried body of blister beetles such as Mylabris phalerata Pallas or Mylabris cichorii Linnaeus) is a pungent, hot, highly toxic Chinese herb that enters the liver, stomach, and large intestine channels. In TCM it has been used to break blood, disperse stasis,…

In my decades of clinical practice I have treated many cancer patients. Based on my observation and reflection, I have formed six views on the causes of cancer. I offer them for reference; they are not orthodox medical doctrine, but they are rooted in real…

Although for most cancer patients who develop ascites the end of life is near, a small number can, if appropriate measures are taken, survive for a time with a relatively good quality of life; some can even turn danger to safety. Among the ascites patients…