Cancer ⁽¹⁰⁹⁾

Opinions on the choice of cancer treatment regimens are divided, and it is hard to reach a consensus. Personally, I lean toward combined Chinese-Western treatment, because the probability of success is highest with combined therapy. But there is a subset of cancer patients for whom…

Including "processed meat products," the World Health Organization's newly released list of carcinogens contains 116 agents in total, provided for the public's reference. These carcinogens include tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, indoor coal gas, arsenic-contaminated drinking water, shoemaking and shoe repair, chimney sweeping, furniture making, iron…

Note: This is an old article I originally published under the pen name "Huaici Jushi." The mesothelioma patient described in it has now survived in remarkably good health for nearly four years, still able to work and live normally, vigorous and strong. In mid-October 2015…

The six-in-six-out breathing method is a set of qigong I worked out on my own for regulating the spleen and stomach. The practice is extremely simple: one inhalation-exhalation cycle is divided into twelve parts—six breaths out and six breaths in. When exhaling, breathe slowly, a…

There are some fellows who understand nothing about cancer yet continually preach the following view among cancer patients and their families: cancer can be reversed—if you only find the cause of the cancer and do the opposite, the cancer can be cured. This naive and…

There are now many glib talkers in the TCM world who readily use the phrase "cancer was long ago conquered by Chinese medicine" to fool patients and their families, in pursuit of their own ulterior motives. They mislead patients and their families, delay the best…

Origin and morphological characteristics of CephalotaxusCephalotaxus, also called feizu (plum yew), is an evergreen tree. Its branchlets are opposite, and its winter buds are terminal. The leaves are arranged spirally in two rows, linear-lanceolate, slightly curved, with white stomatal bands on the underside. The flowers…

When cancer patients enter the terminal stage, some experience cachexia, cancer fever, cancer pain, and similar conditions; the hospital gives up treatment, but the family does not give up and keeps seeking ways to salvage the situation. In fact, for terminal stage-IV cancer patients, excessive…

Many tumor patients eventually come to Beijing to try their luck. In fact, Beijing doctors are also helpless against tumors; some Beijing physicians talk grandly, with brilliance on the surface and rubbish underneath, yet many patients come to Beijing precisely for these 'famous doctors.' I…

From childhood until about the age of thirty, I did not lead an ordinary life; only then did I urgently wish for an ordinary one. But as everyone knows, in our era China's people are restless, and the social environment that would allow an ordinary…