Patent Chinese Medicine ⁽⁹³⁾

Pianzaihuang is a precious Chinese patent medicine that can address many problems of tumor patients, but it is expensive. For ordinary families, the price of Pianzaihuang is a threshold that is hard to cross. At current prices, one pill of Pianzaihuang costs 500–600 yuan (and,…

When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, the side effects of nausea and vomiting often occur. There are three Chinese patent medicines with fairly good efficacy against this side effect, offered here for readers' reference. The first is Erchen Wan (Two-Aged Pill). Erchen Wan comes from the…

Xiaojin Dan is a formula from Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji (Complete Compendium on the Diagnosis and Treatment of External Diseases). Like Xihuang Wan, it is a secret ancestral formula of Wang Hongxu, a famous Qing-dynasty TCM external-medicine physician, and a famous TCM formula still widely…

The Chinese patent medicine Shugan Hewei Wan (Liver-Soothing Stomach-Harmonizing Pill) is a commonly used patent medicine for acute and chronic gastritis; as long as it is used appropriately, its efficacy is very definite.

Shenqi Wan (Kidney-Qi Pill) first appears in the Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet), hence its alternative names Jinkui Shenqi Wan or Cui's Eight-Ingredient Pill. It is a formula of excellent clinical efficacy. Later generations derived several modified formulas from it,…

Xiaoyao Wan is a famous TCM formula. Because its greatest effect is treating the various diseases caused by depression—patients who are gloomy and morose become cheerful after taking it—it is named Xiaoyao Wan (“Free-and-Unrestrained Pill”). In modern times it is mostly used for depression or…

Baohe Pills (Baohe Wan) are a very common patent Chinese medicine and are the foremost formula among the digesting and guiding agents in TCM formula studies. They are extremely widely used and can treat various pediatric conditions, gastrointestinal diseases such as gastritis and esophagitis, respiratory…

Those who choose TCM to treat cancer must not overlook the role of decoctions (tangyao). Modern pharmaceuticals are highly developed, and a great many patent anti-cancer Chinese medicines (zhongcheng yao) have appeared. Many patients, when they accept TCM treatment, take only patent medicines, and after…

"Fighting poison with poison" is one of the major principles of TCM cancer treatment; in virtually every TCM anti-tumor prescription, there are more or less some poisonous herbs. Practice has proved that fighting poison with poison is also one of the TCM anti-cancer means with…

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…