Stomach Cancer ⁽³²⁾

Mr. Wang, a 67-year-old farmer from Shanxi province, was a patient with early gastric cancer. On May 28, 2021, the patient’s daughter first sought my help via video, telling me that her father had suffered from painful swallowing and fatigue for more than three months.

The patient, Qi, male, 50, a forest ranger in Huanan County, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang. Gastric cancer diagnosed April 2018; before diagnosis 174 cm, 80 kg, normal BP and glucose. First online consult May 26, 2020, weighing 61 kg, normal BP and glucose. Diagnosed with gastric cancer…

In Professor Zhao Shaoqin's work Zhao Shaoqin's Inner-Canon Heart Methods there is an experience formula for treating "jiju" (accumulation, i.e., late-stage pelvo-abdominal tumors) in patients with qi-and-blood deficiency and long-standing stasis. It is a pill formula, a combination of "Gongji Wan" (Accumulation-Attacking Pill) and "Bazhen…

The disease caused by excessive contact of the gastroesophageal lumen with (or exposure to) gastric juice, producing clinical gastroesophageal reflux and injury to the esophageal mucosa, is called gastroesophageal reflux; ancient TCM called this disease "ye ge" (dysphagia) or "ge shi" (dysphagia due to obstruction).

Qige San (Obstruction-Opening Powder) comes from Yixue Xinwu (Medical Insights) by the Qing-dynasty physician Cheng Guopeng (courtesy name Zhongling). In the "dysphagia and choking" (ye ge) section of Yixue Xinwu, Qige San is described as a formula that "opens dysphagia and obstruction, and has repeatedly…

The late Dr. Duan Fengwu was the son of Duan Futing, a famous TCM external-medicine specialist in China, and one of the founding experts of Guang'anmen Hospital of TCM. In his lifetime, Dr. Duan was known for his skill in treating external conditions; in his…

Tongyou Tang is a classic formula by the Jin-Yuan physician Li Dongyuan. It moistens dryness and unblocks obstruction, nourishes yin and blood, resolves stasis and breaks concretions. It is indicated for gastrointestinal dryness-heat with damaged yin fluids and failure of downbearing, presenting as dysphagia, constipation,…

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…

Professor Zhao Shaoqin is a famous Chinese medical scholar, a descendant of three generations of imperial physicians and a renowned professor of the Warm-Disease (wenbing) school. His father Zhao Wenkuang was head of the Imperial Medical Academy in the Qing Dynasty (ranked first grade, the…

Professor Zhao Shaoqin (deceased) was a lifelong professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, a famous contemporary TCM physician and educator, and a master of warm-disease studies. Professor Zhao was born into a family of three generations of imperial physicians; his father Zhao Wenkui was…