Famous Doctor Experience ⁽¹⁰⁾

Drug therapy is one of the main approaches to treating malignant tumors at present, but drug therapy produces all kinds of side effects. Chemotherapy, antibiotics, endocrine drugs, immune agents and targeted drugs all inevitably have side effects; even some drugs used to relieve the side…

In Professor Zhao Shaoqin's work Zhao Shaoqin's Inner-Canon Heart Methods there is an experience formula for treating "jiju" (accumulation, i.e., late-stage pelvo-abdominal tumors) in patients with qi-and-blood deficiency and long-standing stasis. It is a pill formula, a combination of "Gongji Wan" (Accumulation-Attacking Pill) and "Bazhen…

The late Professor Qian Bowen, a famous Shanghai physician, was one of China's great masters of TCM anticancer treatment. He devoted his life mainly to research on treating cancer with Chinese medicine, leaving behind much valuable experience as well as some case records worth studying.

Yuye Tang (Jade Fluid Decoction) comes from Yixue Zhong Zhong Can Xi Lu (Records of Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine), an empirical formula of the late-Qing/early-Republic physician Zhang Xichun. Its typical indications are thirst and excessive urination. According to traditional TCM theory, Yuye Tang chiefly…

The Sichuan elder TCM physician Li Changda was born in 1926 and graduated from the Law Department of Sichuan University. He served as a member of the 7th and 8th Central Committees of the Jusan (Sept 3) Society, and as a standing committee member and…

Dr. Liang Xiuqing was born into a TCM family that had practiced medicine for nine generations. He was a renowned senior TCM physician of the early post-Liberation period, practicing in Shanxi and Hebei and enjoying an excellent reputation in both. During the Cultural Revolution he…

How long must a cancer patient using TCM anticancer therapy take Chinese medicine before stopping? This is a question I am often asked. Few doctors can answer it. In fact, the problem is not limited to TCM anticancer therapy; modern anticancer therapy faces the same…

In the book Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji (Complete Collection of Surgery Patterns and Treatment), Wang Hongxu, in treating yong-ju (the swellings and abscesses of old surgery—i.e., what are today called tumors, both benign and malignant), states a principle: "dispersion is esteemed, support-drainage is feared." Previously,…

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…

This article is excerpted from a paper by Zhao Tianyong, a disciple of Duan Fengwu; copyright belongs to the original author. Duan Fengwu was the nephew (and adopted son, since Duan Futing had no sons) of Duan Futing, the towering figure of Chinese TCM external…