Cancer Pain ⁽³³⁾

Shengxue Bingsui Tang (Blood-Engendering Marrow-Supplementing Decoction) comes from the Shangke Buyao (Essentials of Traumatology); it is an orthopedic formula for setting bones and healing injuries, composed of Shengdi (Rehmanniae Radix Recens), Chishao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex), Wujiapi (Acanthopanacis Cortex), Niuxi…

The Chinese medicine Xuchangqing is the root and rhizome, or the whole herb with root, of Cynanchum paniculatum (Bunge) Kitagawa of the Apocynaceae family. Also known as Gu Duzhong or Shixia Changqing, it was first recorded in the Shennong Bencao Jing (Divine Husbandman Classic of…

Qiyelian is the root or stem and leaf of Scheffera arboricola (family Araliaceae), mainly distributed in Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, and Taiwan. It is not a commonly used Chinese herb, but in Guizhou and the two Guang provinces it is widely used in folk medicine.

Zhenggu Water is a topical medicine commonly used in Chinese orthopedics and traumatology. It has the actions of activating blood and dispelling stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and soothing the tendons and unblocking the collaterals; clinically it is mainly used for traumatic injuries. Zhenggu…

Tianchan Capsule is a Chinese patent medicine commonly used in oncology. Its ingredients are: Tianxianwu (Corydalis decumbens Rhizoma), prepared Chuanwu (Aconiti Radix preparata), Chansu (Bufonis Venenum), Zusima (Daphnes Giraldii Cortex), Baiqucai (Chelidonii Herba), Qinjiao (Gentianae macranthae Radix), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), and…

The Wenbing Tiaobian (Systematic Identification of Warm Diseases) contains a formula called Huangqin Huashi Tang, composed of "Scutellaria (Huangqin) three qian, talc (Huashi) three qian, Poria peel (Fulingpi) three qian, areca peel (Dafupi) two qian, white cardamom seed (Baikouren) one qian, Tetrapanax pith (Tongcao) one…

Shengxue Busui Tang (Blood-Generating Marrow-Strengthening Decoction) comes from Shangke Buyao (Supplement to Trauma Medicine). The original formula consists of raw Rehmannia (Sheng Dihuang), Peony (Shaoyao), Astragalus (Huangqi), Eucommia (Duzhong), Acanthopanax bark (Wujiapi), Achyranthes (Niuxi), Angelica (Danggui), Dipsacus (Chuan Xuduan), Ligusticum (Chuanxiong), and Safflower (Honghua); Shangke…

Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang (Bupleurum-Kudzu Muscle-Resolving Decoction) comes from Tao Hua's Shanghan Liu Shu of the Ming dynasty. It was designed to treat combined disease of the three yang channels (Taiyang, Yangming, and Shaoyang). It thus uses Shaoyang herbs Chaihu (Bupleurum) and Huangqin (Scutellaria),…

This is a prescription for cancer pain that a patient's family provided me during a house call in Zhejiang. That family had obtained it when visiting a folk TCM doctor, who, while compounding a secret formula for them, inadvertently showed them this prescription. The family…

This is a small formula used by a lung cancer patient in the final stage of life. The patient's family provided it to me. While using this formula, the patient was also using it along with three other patients for pain relief; two of the…