Cancer ⁽¹⁰⁹⁾

In recent years, medical research on tumours has grown ever deeper, and cancer patients are living ever longer. Oncologists at home and abroad are constantly updating their understanding of tumours. Some scholars hold that after a tumour forms, the intercellular regulation and signalling are disrupted…

Today I saw a news story: an American father, after doctors declared his son brain-dead, refused to believe that his son was truly brain-dead. Because he knew his son had a history of epilepsy, when the hospital was about to remove his son's organs, he…

Does TCM work for cancer? This is a sharp question that arouses controversy. On the one hand, die-hard TCM fans and some ill-intentioned medical institutions will vigorously promote and exaggerate the efficacy of TCM in treating cancer, misleading patients and ultimately causing them to miss…

Before I met the online friend Shengdi Meiya, I had for a time doubted whether Dr. Sun Bingyan - the man so marvelously talked about in cancer circles - actually existed. One day, when I came across Shengdi Meiya in Sina's cancer-friend circle, I learned…

A male patient with gastric cancer and liver metastases came for consultation; it was unclear whether the stomach or the liver was the primary site. He had undergone multiple courses of chemotherapy and relapsed repeatedly, and before seeking my help he was suffering from ascites.

Malignant tumours are classified, according to the origin of their tissue cells, into carcinomas, sarcomas and blastomas. Carcinomas arise from epithelial tissue; sarcomas arise from mesenchymal non-epithelial tissue; blastomas arise from immature tissue. Sarcomas are extremely malignant and progress rapidly, often enlarging to around ten…

It is beyond doubt that a cancer patient's body contains a pathogenic evil, and once cancer has formed it is very hard to reverse. Relying solely on supporting upright qi without any pathogen-expelling measure cannot guarantee long-term survival. The most fundamental aim of cancer treatment…

When I talk with fellow patients, I often say that during cancer treatment, excessive profit-seeking by doctors and medical institutions is, in essence, taking life. Because for a patient, when one treatment plan drains the purse yet has no effect, the only option left is…

This article was written in May 2013 and originally posted on my Sina blog under the pen name Huaici Jushi; the original follows below: An elderly lymphoma patient I have treated has survived for over eight years on Chinese herbs alone. Before this year's Labor…

Xuanfuhua (Inula Flower) is an important Chinese medicinal for treating hiccups, regurgitation, dysphagia (esophageal obstruction), and cough. In Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolue (Essentials from the Golden Cabinet), Xuanfuhua Daizheshi Tang (Inula and Haematitum Decoction) is a famous formula for hiccups, regurgitation, and dysphagia; its chief…