Cancer ⁽¹⁰⁹⁾

TCM as a whole is a systematic and holistic (also "fuzzy") medicine, and in treating many diseases it has advantages Western medicine lacks. Especially its pattern-differentiation approach, when confronting diseases Western medicine cannot diagnose or treat effectively, can start from holistic differentiation, find a solution,…

When we face darkness, only we ourselves can rub our eyes bright and find the light. — Epigraph Having stayed long in cancer circles, I have gradually seen more long-surviving patients. These patients are fortunate, having lived on after cancer. Among them, certain regularities in…

Written on July 20, 2013 The six patients in this report were all personally contacted by myself, or their closest relatives, and confirmed as factual by the patients or their families. Case One (a cure): a female patient in Zhejiang developed cancer when young (the…

When treating cancer, contemporary academic clinicians habitually prescribe heat-clearing and detoxifying, blood-activating and stasis-resolving, hardness-scattering and nodule-dispersing, qi-supplementing and blood-enriching, and vital-qi-supporting and pathogen-expelling formulas. Having seen many cancer patients, the great majority of TCM prescriptions I encounter are built on large doses of heat-clearing…

The right of cancer patients to know their condition has long been a dilemma for many families. Relatives generally believe that if the truth is told, the patient will be unable to bear it. It is true that when patients learn they have cancer, they…

The origin and composition of Xihuang Wan Xihuang Wan is a very famous Chinese patent medicine for treating cancer. It is made from a secret ancestral formula of Wang Hongxu, the Qing-dynasty physician and founder of the Quansheng school of Chinese external medicine. According to…

Many cancer patients develop the sequela of radiation enteritis after radiotherapy. Radiation enteritis is lingering and hard to heal, affecting the patient's quality of life. In clinical practice I have found that the patent medicine compound berberine tablets (Fufang Huangliansu Pian) work quite well for…

Few memories of my childhood stay vivid, but I have always remembered the painful way my mother would vomit up acid water on the threshold at dinnertime. My mother's stomach illness went back a long way. My grandmother had borne many children, and in the…

So far I have encountered three non-localized cancer patients who, on their physicians' advice, all underwent palliative radiotherapy, and without exception the results were poor. In one, the disease metastasized and worsened faster while radiotherapy was being given; in another, the disease had been well…

The clearing method is a very important therapeutic principle in Chinese medicine. It is the mainstream school among contemporary Chinese practitioners treating cancer. Gao Bingjun, author of Yangke Xinde Ji and the representative figure of the "Xinde school"—one of the three great schools of Chinese…