Liver Cancer ⁽³¹⁾

Professor Jiang Chunhua was a renowned late TCM physician of Shanghai and a master of the Yun Tieqiao school of integrated Chinese-Western medicine. His created empirical formula Baqi Wan has a certain efficacy in treating cirrhotic ascites. According to Academician Shen Ziyi, Jiang Chunhua's student,…

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…

Biejia Jian Wan is a classic famous formula from the Han-dynasty Zhang Zhongjing's "Jingui Yaolue" (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet). Modern pharmaceutical versions are sometimes called Renshen Biejia Jian Wan (Ginseng Soft-Shelled Turtle Shell Decoction Pill). Its ingredients include soft-shelled turtle shell glue (Biejiajiao),…

The patient, Yang YL, had suspected multiple postoperative recurrences of liver cancer along with cirrhosis and many years of hepatitis B. On November 3, 2015, she underwent a postoperative B-ultrasound at Lianyungang First People's Hospital. She came to Beijing for her first consultation on November…

What should you do if you have hepatitis B? Should hepatitis B be treated? Can hepatitis B be cured? How many hepatitis B patients eventually progress to cirrhosis or liver cancer? If hepatitis B is cured, will it not progress to cirrhosis or liver cancer?…

This is a prescription taken by a liver cancer patient. After developing liver cancer, the patient still often drank himself into a stupor, yet by taking this prescription he miraculously lived more than five years. The patient's daughter came to me for gynecological treatment for…

Arsenic (pi shuang) has, since ancient times, been a toxin-attacking-with-toxin drug used in TCM clinical practice. The contemporary clinician Zhang Tingdong introduced it into the treatment of leukemia. Professor Zhang Tingdong is the founder of using arsenic to treat leukemia, and his achievement is one…

During my college-entrance physical examination, out of a class of more than fifty students, nearly ten were found to have hepatitis B; unfortunately I was one of them. Fortunately I had only the "small three positive" (minor HBV carrier state), and over more than ten…

Serene Remaining Years (QQ nickname Bin) has passed away. In the eleventh year after his liver cancer diagnosis, he left this world peacefully. I have known Brother Bin for nearly four years, beginning when he started following my blog. Brother Bin also wrote a blog…

This is an empirical formula often used by the late celebrated TCM physician Duan Fengwu. I tried it out recently myself and it is indeed effective. The Xionghuang (realgar) and other herbs in it I have used myself; applied externally they are very safe and…