Cancer ⁽¹⁰⁹⁾

For TCM to achieve results in treating cancer, one must first guarantee the quality of the medicinal materials. Currently the herb market is a mixed bag; the quality of herbs sold by different pharmacies varies greatly, and some even sell fake or substandard materials. Often…

Malignant fluid produced by tumors and accumulating in the thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity, and pericardium is what is commonly called pleural effusion, ascites, and pericardial effusion. These are common complications in cancer patients; if not handled well, many cancer patients die precisely from pleural, peritoneal,…

When sitting in meditation or practicing qigong, one can easily go astray into delusion. In reality, relying on sitting meditation or quiet-sitting qigong to treat cancer is a very unreliable approach, and its harm is often far greater than any benefit obtained from it. Sitting…

According to general statistics, 25% of China's urban population will develop cancer, while the proportion among the rural population is 21%. The more developed the city, the higher the cancer rate. In first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou, basically one in three…

Some cancer patients, after falling ill, are easily influenced by religion and become ascetics and vegetarians, carrying their lives to an extreme and resulting in malnutrition both physically and mentally, which is very unfavorable to recuperation. I write this article to set forth my personal…

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;…

Over the years I have worked with a great many cancer patients and their families. Again and again I have met relatives who ask me to conceal the patient's true condition from him. Such a practice does far more harm than good. When patients do…

Low white blood cell counts during chemotherapy are a common phenomenon among cancer patients. White-cell-boosting injections are both expensive and have significant side effects. They mainly work by stimulating bone-marrow hematopoietic cells to speed up white-cell production in order to maintain immunity. If used long-term,…

This happened nearly twenty years ago. Illness had made my memory very poor, and the impression of this episode has long been blurred; I can only recall the general outline. In the spring of 1995, more than half a year after I was diagnosed with…

Some people often misunderstand "living with cancer" as doing nothing about the cancer, and this way of thinking is wrong. For the patient, if the tumor does not grow or spread, that already counts as meaningful treatment; if it can slowly shrink, the meaning is…