Melanoma ⁽⁷⁾

The author first published this patient's case on March 1, 2023. At that time, after the author's purely TCM treatment, the patient's metastatic tumors were shrinking. Thereafter, the patient's tumors continued to shrink slowly but steadily. Because the patient had previously undergone various Western treatments…

Recently, a melanoma patient in Shaanxi — probably after contracting influenza A, which lowered his immunity — developed another kind of bacterial infection that was very hard to detect. Although blood tests confirmed a bacterial infection, his local hospital could not identify the exact source;…

The Zhongguo Pifubing Jianbian (A Concise Account of TCM Skin Diseases) records Wuhu Dan (Five-Tiger Elixir), a contemporary TCM empirical external formula for skin diseases. Its composition is: shuiyin (mercury) 62 g, mingfan (alum) 62 g, qingfan (chalcanthite/blue vitriol) 62 g, puxiao (mirabilite/Glauber's salt) 62…

Patient Zhang, female, 65 years old. In 2021 the patient herself noticed a black line on the nail of her right great toe, along with elevation of the nail surface; she filed it down with a file, and the result was uncontrollable bleeding. On August…

In his work Linzhen Yide Lu (Records of Clinical Experience, People's Medical Publishing House, 2006, 1st ed., p. 15), the senior physician Ling Yunpeng recorded a small empirical formula he used for a melanoma patient: Huangyaozi (Discorea bulbifera bulb), Xiakucao (Prunella spike), and Huainiuxi (Achyranthes…

Exploring TCM Approaches to Treating Malignant Melanoma Malignant melanoma was called "black nodule" (heizi), "gangrene" (tuoju), or "malignant sore" (echuang) in ancient TCM texts, and was generally considered to have a poor prognosis. For example, Waike Zhengzong records of black nodules: "A black nodule is…

Moles are on nearly everyone's body, but few know that this seemingly harmless thing can one day imperceptibly undergo malignant transformation and develop into malignant melanoma, which has an extremely high mortality rate.