Chemoradiation Sequelae ⁽⁷⁾

As a renowned gynecologist, the elder physician Liu Fengwu also treated patients with gynecological tumors during his lifetime, though mainly by regulating the after-effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. He wrote an article summarizing some of his own experience and insights in treating gastrointestinal reactions after…

During the May Day holiday in Beijing this year, I met a cancer patient who had consulted me ten years earlier for radiation enteritis. This patient had developed some relatively uncommon symptoms: her brain’s motor control over the lower limbs was intact, but her lower…

Zaizhang Shengxue Pian (Aplastic-Anemia Blood-Generating Tablets) is a Chinese patent medicine. Its composition includes dodder seed (tusizi), red ginseng (hongshen), Spatholobus stem (jixueteng), donkey-hide gelatin (ejiao), astragalus root (huangqi), Chinese angelica (danggui), and glossy privet fruit (nüzhenzi). The tablets are sugar-coated; after the coating is…

Anhui Provincial Hospital (the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China) developed a hospital preparation called "Formula 70 Ointment" in 1970. The composition and preparation method are: nuzhen (Ligustrum lucidum) leaves 250g, sesame oil 500g, yellow wax (9g in summer,…

Menopausal women often experience dizziness and headache, lightheadedness and vertigo, fatigue and weakness, sore lower back and weak legs, paroxysmal hot flashes (sometimes even with burning heat and sweating), occasional coldness, sometimes vexation and spontaneous sweating, a pale tongue, and a deep fine pulse. Dizziness…

Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan once reported a case of partial tumor regression in a patient with stage IV hepatocellular carcinoma. The patient came to hospital in July 2005 and was found to have a liver tumor; CT showed a 5-cm liver tumor…

Earlier, I wrote an article introducing the experience a patient's family member had in treating pressure sores and skin ulceration. That article was titled "Experience in Treating Pressure Sores and Skin Ulcers Shared by a Patient's Family Member." That family member used MEBO Moist Burn…