Medical Case ⁽¹⁶³⁾

Ma, female, from Shaanxi. Initial visit on the morning of May 10, 2019. Right pulse deep, faint, rough and weak; chi position deep and hidden; left pulse deep and faint. Tongue pale with scant coating. Pain in the left lower abdomen and left lower back;…

Professor Liu Fangbo believes that the most effective way to raise the clinical efficacy of physicians is to start from "formula-pattern" (fangzheng); I agree with this view. The key to TCM pattern differentiation and treatment is "for this pattern, use this medicine" and "treat according…

Patient Feng, female, 71, from Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Acute myeloid leukemia, AML-M4E0. First visit January 1, 2020. White blood cells, platelets and red blood cells were all low; C-reactive protein was high. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate: 31 (reference range 0–20). Pulse was deep, fine, soft and…

Although in Western medicine cancers are named variously according to their primary site, in the TCM theoretical system of syndrome differentiation and disease differentiation, one does not necessarily care which type of cancer the patient has. TCM judges which syndrome a cancer patient belongs to…

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…

Sanhuang Xiexin Tang (Three-Yellow Heart-Draining Decoction) is a classical, famous formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage). Many scholars believe that the Dahuang Huanglian Xiexin Tang in the Shanghan Lun should consist of three herbs—Huanglian (Coptis), Dahuang (Rhubarb), and Huangqin (Scutellaria)—rather than…

On December 25, 2016, a patient surnamed Chen with stage 4C ovarian cancer from Lanzhou came to me together with a fellow patient to seek treatment for her stage 4C ovarian cancer. From then on she received my TCM treatment continuously. On October 8, 2019,…

I began researching the TCM treatment of gastric cancer because my own mother suffered from it. Over the years I have put enormous effort into studying its treatment; it could be said that gastric cancer is the cancer I have studied most. Because the immediate…

After a tumor undergoes needle biopsy for pathology, it sometimes grows rapidly as a result of the biopsy's irritation; this is not uncommon in clinical practice, and I myself have encountered such a patient. This is a female lymphoma patient. I had previously published part…

Stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma is extremely difficult to treat. At present, when Western methods combining surgery with radiotherapy and chemotherapy are used to treat children with stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma, the success rate is close to zero, so many doctors give up on such children.