Chinese Herbal Medicine ⁽⁴⁰⁾

Intravesical instillation is a treatment method that can deliver drugs directly to the entire mucosal surface of the bladder. Its advantage is that the warmed medicinal solution can reach the lesion directly without missing any cancerous lesions. Its anti-cancer mechanism is the combined direct killing…

The Chinese medicine Bixie is the rhizome of Dioscorea hypoglauca, a plant of the yam family. The yam family plant we are most familiar with is Shanyao (Chinese yam), a widely popular food; Bixie belongs to the same plant family as Chinese yam. The stems,…

Laoguancao, also called Laoguan cao, Wuye cao, Laoguan cao, and Tiangang cao, is the fruiting whole herb of plants of the Geraniaceae family—Erodium stephanianum, Geranium wilfordii, Geranium sibiricum, Geranium nepalense, and Geranium tuberricum, among others. In times of famine people also ate laoguancao as food;…

Although I have repeatedly mentioned in many articles that cancer patients should avoid taking herbal decoctions long-term, I still want to write a dedicated piece to emphasize this and to raise awareness among patients and their families. It is true that the medical records of…

Foshou is the fruit of Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis of the Rutaceae family, also called Foshou Xiangyuan, Miluo Gan, Wuzhi Gan, Fushou Gan and Foshou Gua. Ripe Buddha's hand is sweet, fragrant and juicy, a delicious fruit popular in southern Fujian, Guangxi and other places.

Chinese herb Banzhilian (Scutellaria barbata D. Don) is the whole plant of a member of the genus Scutellaria (skullcap) in the mint family (Lamiaceae), and it is a commonly used herb in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for various tumor diseases. The flowers of Banzhilian closely…

Baihua Shebicao is the whole herb of Hedyotis diffusa (family Rubiaceae, genus Hedyotis). It is named for its white flowers and leaves shaped like a snake's tongue. It is mainly distributed in southeast and southwest China, and is also known by such names as Sheshecao,…

I began researching the TCM treatment of gastric cancer because my own mother suffered from it. Over the years I have put enormous effort into studying its treatment; it could be said that gastric cancer is the cancer I have studied most. Because the immediate…

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…

Zhongjiefeng (Sarcandra glabra) is a plant of the genus Sarcandra in the Chloranthaceae family; clinically the whole plant or its root is used as medicine. The name Zhongjiefeng (literally "knot-breaking wind") already indicates that its main use is in treating diseases of swollen, painful joints.