TCM Anti-Cancer (79)

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The Perils of Reckless Tonic Supplementation for Cancer Patients

Many cancer patients are indeed very deficient, and families, frantic with worry, tonify recklessly: renshen (ginseng), dongchongxiacao (cordyceps), lurong (pilose antler), lingzhi (reishi mushroom)—especially the deceptive broken-wall reishi powder, reishi spore powder, and ginsenoside extracts; merchants spare no means, and despite repeated expert debunking that…

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Many Cancer Patients Are Not Suitable for Heat-Clearing and Detoxifying Herbs

When treating cancer, contemporary academic clinicians habitually prescribe heat-clearing and detoxifying, blood-activating and stasis-resolving, hardness-scattering and nodule-dispersing, qi-supplementing and blood-enriching, and vital-qi-supporting and pathogen-expelling formulas. Having seen many cancer patients, the great majority of TCM prescriptions I encounter are built on large doses of heat-clearing…

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