Colon Cancer ⁽⁵⁾

TCM treatment of colorectal cancer may use oral decoctions, pills, powders, plasters or pellets, as well as external methods such as enema. Using Chinese herbal enema allows the medicine to reach the lesion directly without hepatic metabolism; the effect may be better and side effects…

Around 1:40 p.m. on the first day of the first lunar month, my 76-year-old third uncle passed away after illness failed to respond to treatment. In the days that followed, we busied ourselves arranging his funeral. According to our local custom, the body should be…

After cancer patients undergo surgery and chemotherapy, most have a markedly deficient upright qi (zheng qi). For such patients, TCM treatment should focus on supporting zheng qi and consolidating the root, with expulsion of pathogen as a secondary measure. Even though tumor remains in their…

Qin, born in 1972, from Suining, Sichuan, long resident in Lanzhou (about 20 years). Both his maternal grandfather and uncle had cardia cancer. On September 11, 2018, he came to me for the first visit, accompanying an established elderly patient of mine who was returning…

I. Overview of Colorectal Cancer Colorectal cancer includes colon cancer and rectal cancer. Its incidence and mortality show a clear upward trend, especially in developed countries, and increasingly in China's more developed cities. It is a typical cancer associated with nutritional excess and lifestyle. Worldwide,…