Chinese Herbal Medicine ⁽⁴⁰⁾

When treating cancer in clinical practice, Professor Wang Pei preferred to use raw Chinese herbs rather than their processed (paozhi) versions. For example, raw Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma), raw Heshouwu (Polygoniflori Multiflori Radix), raw Xiangfu (Cyperi Rhizoma), raw Huangqi (Astragali Radix), raw Yiyiren (Coicis Semen), raw…

"Fighting poison with poison" is one of the major principles of TCM cancer treatment; in virtually every TCM anti-tumor prescription, there are more or less some poisonous herbs. Practice has proved that fighting poison with poison is also one of the TCM anti-cancer means with…

This article introduces some Chinese patent medicines commonly used by lung cancer patients. Many of these medicines are hard to dose accurately in clinical use and are inconvenient to prepare as decoctions; making them into patent medicines is more scientific and can serve as a…

Originally written June 4, 2013. For more than a year after my late mother passed away, I kept reflecting on the reasons her treatment failed. At the same time I was groping for experience in dealing with liver metastases and massive solid tumors. Gradually I…

This is the case record of Dr. Li Zhonghui, a lymphoma patient I treated. After copying out this record, I treated Dr. Li myself for over a year; then she moved, and it became inconvenient for her to come to me, so for a while…

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…

The Japanese say that the untransmitted secret of Chinese medicine lies in the dosage. Herbal dosage is indeed a problem, but is this secret really "untransmitted" or merely "hard to transmit"? In my view it is not that it is not transmitted, but that it…

While reading the Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji (Treatise on Surgical Patterns of the Quansheng School), I came across the author Wang Hongxu's entry on "ruyan" (breast rock, i.e., today's breast cancer), in which he mentions that treating ruyan with Xihuang Wan often brought about a…

Sal ammoniac (naosha) is one of the Chinese herbal medicines that genuinely works against esophageal cancer; purple sal ammoniac (zi naosha) is especially effective. Recently I observed several patients treated with purple sal ammoniac products for esophageal carcinoma, and all achieved very obvious short-term results—results…

Exploit the benefit while controlling the harm—this is a point to which particular attention must be paid when using Chinese herbs. In fact, it applies more broadly: a good Western physician must consider the same thing. For example, when using aspirin, one must fully take…