Cancer ⁽¹⁰⁹⁾

"Fighting poison with poison" is one of the major principles of TCM cancer treatment; in virtually every TCM anti-tumor prescription, there are more or less some poisonous herbs. Practice has proved that fighting poison with poison is also one of the TCM anti-cancer means with…

There is a famous saying in TCM: "A folk prescription from the seaside can put a famous physician to shame." It is not at all rare for a small single-herb remedy to cure a disease that a learned famous doctor cannot. Not only in TCM—famous…

Because of my mother's cancer, I have stayed in cancer circles for ten years. Through Tianya Hospital, Sina Blogs, and QQ groups I have come to know a great many cancer patients and their families, and I constantly see anxious cancer patients and families rushing…

Arsenic (pi shuang) has, since ancient times, been a toxin-attacking-with-toxin drug used in TCM clinical practice. The contemporary clinician Zhang Tingdong introduced it into the treatment of leukemia. Professor Zhang Tingdong is the founder of using arsenic to treat leukemia, and his achievement is one…

If I had not listened to doctors I would not be alive; if I had listened entirely to doctors I would not be alive either. ——Veteran cancer fighter Brother Bin Brother Bin was a veteran liver-cancer fighter I once wrote about, who fought liver cancer…

Both Chinese and Western medicine understand cancer as a whole-person disease. The causes that induce cancer include psychological factors and personality factors, as well as lifestyle, precancerous lesions, the natural environment, and the interpersonal environment. Therefore, treating cancer should be a systematic project, requiring holistic…

TCM broadly divides the causes of human disease into three categories: internal causes, external causes, and causes that are neither internal nor external. This division already existed in early TCM classics such as the Huangdi Neijing and the Jinkui Yaolue; the Song dynasty physician Chen…

An old piece, written in 2013. Zhang Jingyue said that a physician must have "the eye of an eagle and the courage of a lion." What he meant was: first, the physician must pattern-differentiate accurately; second, he must have sufficient daring. I believe this is…

In the book Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji (Complete Collection of Surgery Patterns and Treatment), Wang Hongxu, in treating yong-ju (the swellings and abscesses of old surgery—i.e., what are today called tumors, both benign and malignant), states a principle: "dispersion is esteemed, support-drainage is feared." Previously,…

Whether humanity's current understanding of cancer as a pathology is right or wrong is still hard to judge. Cancer requires countless people to sacrifice their whole lifetimes and energies to research, and the great majority may grow old poring over classics, expending a lifetime of…