Cancer Notes ⁽¹¹⁶⁾

More than ten years ago, a cervical-cancer patient came to me for help. She was already critically ill: severe intestinal obstruction had left her unable to pass stool for over a week, and excruciating pain was more than she could bear. She was hospitalized in…

Several years ago, I saw a patient with ovarian cancer in Putian, Fujian Province. After she developed bloody ascites, guided by a local villager, she foraged fresh Chinese herb Xiaoji (Herba Cephalanoploris) and stewed it into soup to drink. Each time she used about 250-500…

Only by letting go of hatred can body and mind possibly heal. —Epigraph It is no exaggeration to say that I hear patients bursting into tears almost every day. Whenever someone wants to have a good cry in front of me, I silently watch and…

At noon today, I brought a middle-aged woman who had come from Xi an and her mother to my home, to help treat her mother and chat. This was the first time I had brought a patient to my own home. This woman father had…

About ten years ago, an asthma patient came to me for treatment of his asthma, accompanied by his wife. Her dark eye circles were especially prominent, so striking that one could not forget them. After finishing the consultation and treatment for her husband, I casually…

Cancer-related research advances day by day, new anti-cancer drugs emerge endlessly, and treatment options are diverse. When a doctor lays a host of options before the patient and family, how should they choose? This is a question I often face. On this question everyone who…

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute recently published a research report. After tracking 33,947 women aged 35 to 74 for 11 consecutive years, researchers found that 378 women who frequently used chemical hair straighteners were diagnosed with uterine cancer. The study showed that women…

Professor Zhang Renji, in Chapter 4 (“The Natural Course of Cancer”) of his book A New Approach to Treating Cancer with Chinese Medicine (Science and Technology Literature Press, August 1992), states: “Certain physical factors can also promote tumor metastasis, such as excessive massage of a…

When a patient is desperate, they will turn to any doctor—that is human nature. Especially after being diagnosed with cancer, people become even more panicked and tend to make rushed medical decisions. Under current medical conditions, cancer patients face many choices: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine…

I have long been researching a TCM large-formula "cocktail therapy" for anticancer treatment; one could say this is my core philosophy of treating cancer. Every day I read all kinds of Chinese and Western medical literature; whenever I gain something, I record it in an…