Leukemia ⁽²³⁾

The patient, Lei, male, 52 years old, from Wangjiaqiao Town, Songzi, Jingzhou, Hubei Province. In mid-December 2021 he was diagnosed at Jingzhou Central Hospital (inpatient No. 21846890) with non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma, consistent with the features of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma. Imaging showed enlarged bilateral…

Not long ago, a menopausal breast-cancer patient told me her daughter, who studies TCM, had her take Baihe Gujin pills for three months and cured her menopausal hyperhidrosis. Her result gave me an idea: an elderly leukemia patient of mine, Ms. Feng, was also troubled…

Meihua Dianshe Dan comes from Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji (Complete Records on the Pattern and Treatment of External Disorders). It was a secret family formula of the famous Qing-dynasty physician Wang Weide (style name Hongxu, 1669–1749), who made it public in that book. After Waike…

Danggui Longhui Wan (Angelica, Aloe, Gentian Pill) is a Chinese patent medicine. Its composition is: Danggui (Angelica sinensis), Longdancao (Gentiana), Zhizi (Gardenia), Huanglian (Coptis), Huangbo (Phellodendron) and Huangqin (Scutellaria) each 30 g; Shu Dahuang (prepared rhubarb), Luhui (aloe) and Qingdai (indigo naturalis) each 15 g;…

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…

Leukemia and neuroblastoma are regarded as two different diseases in Western medicine, but their clinical syndromes overlap: in the acute phase both present fever, anemia, bleeding and pain. In the spirit of TCM pattern differentiation, such symptoms represent alternating or concurrent occurrences of excess evil-qi…

Cancer patients frequently develop bleeding complications, such as gastric bleeding in gastric cancer patients, bloody stools in colorectal cancer patients or those with radiation enteritis, vaginal bleeding in cervical and vaginal cancer patients, hemoptysis in lung or laryngeal cancer patients, hematuria in kidney and bladder…

Except for God, everyone else can only win our trust through data. —Dr. Bernie Fisher Modern medical textbooks are updated very quickly, with a new edition appearing every few years, and each edition differs considerably from the previous one. As times develop and more epidemiological…

Some leukemia patients have a low white blood cell count, which falls even lower after chemotherapy. In practice I have found that, for such patients, simply fortifying the spleen and kidney and supplementing qi and blood not only fails to raise the white cells, but…

Liuying Wan is a commonly used TCM remedy for acute tonsillitis, epiglottitis, and other throat diseases, but it can also be used to treat cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma. For cancer, Liuying Wan may be taken orally, or crushed, steeped in yellow rice wine,…