Hepatic Ascites ⁽¹⁰⁾

Professor Wang Peng was a professor of internal medicine at Hubei University of Chinese Medicine. From 1985 to 1998 he served successively as deputy director and then director of the general internal medicine department of the Affiliated Hospital of Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine…

The Qing Dynasty physician Yu Tinghong recorded a case in the "xu-zhang" (vacuity distension) section of his work Yu Tinghong Yi'an (Medical Cases of Yu Tinghong): The daughter-in-law of Mr. Wei Baoqin, a minor official of Xigong in Changshu, became depressed after losing her husband.

Tingli Da Wan is a small, single-medicinal formula from Chen Yan's Sanyin Ji Yi Bingzheng Fanglun (Systematic Treatise on Three Categories of Pathogenic Factors) of the Song dynasty. Its composition is: Tian Tingli (sweet Descurainia seed, stir-fried with paper separating) and Jicai Gen (Capsella bursa-pastoris…

Professor Jiang Chunhua was a renowned contemporary TCM master. For treating hepatic ascites, Professor Jiang had a general formula based on Xiayuxue Tang (Stasis-Expelling Decoction). Xiayuxue Tang comes from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolue; its original composition is: Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) 2 liang, Taoren…

The patient, Mr. Meng, a 40-year-old male with liver cancer, first visited the clinic on June 8, 1992. That January, the patient had undergone a partial resection of the right lobe of the liver through a combined thoracoabdominal incision at a certain hospital; postoperative pathology…

In Professor Yin Huihe's Zhongyi Neike Xinlun (New Discourse on TCM Internal Medicine), Professor Yin specifically discusses the treatment of jiju (accumulations and gatherings) and guzhang (abdominal distension). The jiju of TCM encompasses modern tumors of the gastrointestinal tract and the female reproductive organs, while…

The recipe of Winter Melon Liquid (Donggua Ye) is recorded in the medical writings of the late renowned TCM physician Liu Minshu. Winter Melon Liquid is specifically indicated for deficiency-type edema. When edema arises after a prolonged illness, or the mild ascites of cancer patients…

What are pleural and ascitic fluid in cancer patients? What role can dietary therapy play? Pleural and ascitic fluid in cancer patients are accumulations of fluid in the pleural and abdominal cavities caused by cancer; they are common complications of late-stage cancer. They seriously impair…

Once, when I went to a pharmacy I often frequented to buy medicines, a pharmacist there told me of a very simple little remedy for ascites: take equal parts of fresh ginger and jujube (dazao), and make them into pills the size of a phoenix-tree…

Although for most cancer patients who develop ascites the end of life is near, a small number can, if appropriate measures are taken, survive for a time with a relatively good quality of life; some can even turn danger to safety. Among the ascites patients…