Stomach Cancer ⁽³²⁾

China has long been a country with a heavy burden of esophageal cancer. According to the World Health Organization, China ranks first in the world in esophageal cancer incidence. This is closely related to two deeply ingrained dietary habits of the Chinese people: first, the…

Patients with advanced upper digestive tract cancer (esophageal cancer, cardiac carcinoma or gastric cancer) usually develop, as the disease progresses, symptoms such as gastric bloating, stomach pain, hiccups, vomiting, acid regurgitation and heartburn. By this stage most patients already have distant metastases, and cure by…

Chronic atrophic gastritis is a precancerous lesion of gastric cancer; it is protracted and difficult to cure, its treatment is thorny, and patients often suffer from gastric distension and pain. Zhongguo Minjian Liaofa (Chinese Folk Therapy, 2004, 12(9): 45) once published an experiential formula for…

Pinggan Shuluo Wan (Liver-Calming and Collaterals-Unblocking Pill) comes from the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China, Part I, 2005 edition. Its composition is: Chaihu (Bupleurum Root) 45 g, Qingpi (Green Tangerine Peel, vinegar-baked) 45 g, Chenpi (Tangerine Peel) 45 g, Foshou (Finger Citron) 45…

Wu Ji San is composed of Wuzeigu (cuttlebone, Sepiae Endoconcha) and Baiji (Bletilla) in a 1:2 ratio. The two are ground together into a fine powder; take 3 g three times daily, two hours after meals. This formula suppresses acid and stops bleeding. Its indications…

Wu Ye San (“Five-Block Powder”) comes from Jisheng Fang (in the Jingyue Quanshu it is also called Wu Ge San, “Five-Diaphragm Powder”). It treats “five types of Ye (dysphagia): food that will not go down, vomiting and reverse flow with profuse phlegm, obstruction in the…

The patient, Zhang, male, 45 years old, first consulted Professor Li Jiren on August 20, 1995. The patient stated that in January 1995, for acute abdominal pain, he had undergone exploratory laparotomy at a hospital in Nanjing, which showed a 2 cm x 1.5 cm…

Mr. Yang, male, a farmer from Dandong, Liaoning Province, born in 1946, first visited on March 5, 2019. He had long eaten pickled foods such as suan cai (pickled napa cabbage), and was Helicobacter pylori positive. On November 28, 2018, he went to Dandong Central…

When Professor Liu Duzhou lectured on the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage), he mentioned that Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) can harmonize the nutritive and defensive aspects externally, and harmonize qi and blood, and regulate the spleen and stomach internally. Master Liu said that…

Gastric bleeding is a common complication of gastric cancer. When the gastric tumor reaches a certain size, tumor ulceration or rupture of gastric vessels caused by the large tumor frequently leads to this complication. In most gastric cancer patients, gastric bleeding is a gradual process.