TCM Anti-Cancer Cases ⁽⁴⁵⁾

A certain Mr. Sheng of Tianjin, around fifty years of age, developed dysphagia (ye ge). Cause: His circumstances had long been unfavorable, and he was by nature impatient and prone to liver-rage, whereupon he contracted this illness. Symptoms: At first he only felt food go…

The renowned Shaanxi TCM physician Jia Kun (1919-2005) was an early pioneer in TCM anti-cancer research. The widely used Chinese patent medicine Pingxiao Pian (Pingxiao Jiaonang) was developed from Jia Kun's empirical anti-cancer formula "Pingxiao Dan." Besides contributing the Pingxiao Dan formula, Professor Jia authored…

Zhang Jiapeng (1925–1992) was a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences). He studied under famous TCM physicians Ran Xuefeng, Yue Meizhong, and Zhao Xiwu. With over forty years of clinical practice, he excelled at…

Professor Feng Zhirong, former head of the Zigong Hospital of TCM, once treated a patient with a lateral gingival tumor. The patient, a 62-year-old married man surnamed Liu, first came to Professor Feng on April 16, 1999. The patient had had swelling and pain of…

Professor Liang Yijun was born in 1927 into a TCM family in Beijing. She served as director of the TCM Internal Medicine Department at China-Japan Friendship Hospital and was a national-level expert. In 1990 she was named by the two ministries and one bureau as…

This case is recorded on page 37 of Academician Tong Xiaolin's work Xin Bing Shi Jiu Tiao (Nineteen New Pathomechanisms). The patient, a 62-year-old man surnamed Wu, presented with dizziness and projectile vomiting for one month. Before onset he had repeatedly contracted cold pathogens; a…

Zou Xuexi, born in 1931, was a native of Xindu county, Sichuan. He studied medicine from childhood under the famous physician Liao Deming and was a TCM physician who grew up through the apprenticeship model. In 1991 he was named by the National Personnel Department,…

Professor Xiong Kuowu was a native of Tongcheng, Hubei. Born in 1919, he was a disciple of Xie Renzai, a famous physician of the Republican era. Professor Xiong once served as director of the Internal Medicine Teaching and Research Office of Hubei TCM College (now…

Wang Jiufeng was a physician of generations-renowned family in Dantu (within present-day Jiangsu) during the Qianlong-Jiaqing period of the Qing dynasty. He was skilled in treating various internal and surgical diseases, and the case records of his clinical practice were compiled as Wang Jiufeng Yi'an…

The patient was a man born in 1951, from Yichang, Hubei Province. Because a relative of his—an ovarian cancer patient I had treated long-term with reasonable results—had referred him, he came to me for help. The patient first came to me on September 29, 2020.