Liver Cancer ⁽³¹⁾

In Yixue Rumen (Introduction to Medicine) there is a folk prescription called "Zhugan Wan" (Pig-Liver Pills), specifically for abdominal masses (zhengjia) with stabbing pain. The pills are prepared as follows: take one whole pig liver (i.e., one entire lobe) and 50 Ba Dou (croton) seeds;…

Antike Jiaonang (Antike Capsule) is a commonly used anti-cancer patent medicine whose ingredients include Chanpi (toad skin) and Danggui. It is commonly used for blood-stasis patterns of esophageal cancer and advanced primary liver cancer, as adjuvant therapy during chemotherapy for mid-to-late gastric cancer, or alone…

Li Dongyuan was one of the four great masters of the Jin-Yuan period, and many of his formulas are remarkably effective. This article introduces his experiential formula “Zhishi Xiaopi Wan” (Immature Bitter Orange Pill for Dissipating Fullness), which is recorded in Lanshi Micang (Secret Records…

Primary and secondary tumors of the liver are a major cause of death among cancer patients. Whether it is primary liver cancer or secondary hepatic metastasis, patients should prioritize treatment of the hepatic lesion. Because the liver is the second most important organ of the…

Chief physician Wan Wenmo, born in 1923 and a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province, worked at the Wuhan Ninth Hospital. He specialized in treating liver cancer and cirrhosis, and had a characteristic formula for liver cancer called "toad oil": one live toad, eviscerated and washed,…

The Zhu Chenyu Jinggyan Ji (Collected Experience of Zhu Chenyu) records Professor Zhu Chenyu experience in treating hepatolienomegaly and cirrhotic ascites caused by liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis; for details see the chapter Chronic Hepatitis and Cirrhosis in that book. Hepatolienomegaly and…

China is a country with a large hepatitis B burden and ranks first globally in liver-cancer incidence. Liver-cancer mortality is second among malignancies in China (after lung cancer), and worldwide it is the third most fatal malignancy. Four risk factors have been confirmed as the…

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 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 the conventional understanding of most people, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is usually associated with obesity. But this "common sense" is actually wrong: it is not only fat people who have fatty liver; fatty liver is also very common among non-obese people. A systematic…