Lung Cancer ⁽⁴³⁾

Since the pandemic last year, I have remotely admitted four patients with lung cancer or pulmonary nodules who had received no Western medical treatment, and whose patients and families were unwilling to pursue Western treatment. In all four cases I did not perform the traditional…

Zhou, female, 73, mother of Dr. Liu, a chief physician at a Grade-A tertiary hospital in Yueyang, Hunan. On December 18, 2020, Dr. Liu for the first time invited me to a video consultation for his mother. The patient had advanced schistosomiasis, liver cirrhosis with…

Pleural effusion is a common complication of lung cancer and many other chronic lung diseases. Once fluid accumulates in the pleural cavity, patients often develop cough, profuse sputum, chest tightness, chest pain, and frequent or scanty urination; severe cases may show edema of the legs…

Gaohuang (BL43) is one of the common points of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder meridian. It lies below the spinous process of the 4th thoracic vertebra, 3 cun lateral (here "cun" refers to the acupuncture "body-inch"). This point is now commonly used to treat bronchial asthma, bronchitis,…

Because the case record of every patient I treat is very long, and because a single patient's case record can easily mislead readers into thinking that the plan for every patient is something that can be copied onto other patients. So in this article, from…

The patient, Ren, female, aged 74, presented for treatment of lung adenocarcinoma. First visit, February 24, 2016. She had undergone targeted therapy for lung cancer. Findings: teeth-marked tongue; chest pain radiating through to the back; dry mouth; bitter taste in the mouth; bone-steaming sensation and…

Xiben Wan (Qi-Rush Pill) [Composition] Magnolia bark (Houpo, ginger-processed) 8 qian; Coptis (Huanglian, removed of tops, stir-fried) 1 liang 3 qian; dried Ginger (Ganjiang, roasted) 1 qian half; Cinnamon (Gui, peeled) 1 qian; Croton cream (Baidou shuang) 4 fen; white Poria (Bai Fuling, peeled) 1…

Single-herb remedies are the wisdom of folk treatment of disease, and their value deserves to be tapped. The following proven formulas suit some lung cancer patients; I reprint them here with brief commentary from a professional standpoint. Proven Formula 1: Adenophora (Nanshashen) 30 g, Glehnia…

This article introduces some Chinese patent medicines commonly used by lung cancer patients. Many of these medicines are hard to dose accurately in clinical use and are inconvenient to prepare as decoctions; making them into patent medicines is more scientific and can serve as a…

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…