TCM Anti-Cancer ⁽⁷⁹⁾

The clearing method is a very important therapeutic principle in Chinese medicine. It is the mainstream school among contemporary Chinese practitioners treating cancer. Gao Bingjun, author of Yangke Xinde Ji and the representative figure of the "Xinde school"—one of the three great schools of Chinese…

While reading the Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji (Treatise on Surgical Patterns of the Quansheng School), I came across the author Wang Hongxu's entry on "ruyan" (breast rock, i.e., today's breast cancer), in which he mentions that treating ruyan with Xihuang Wan often brought about a…

Sal ammoniac (naosha) is one of the Chinese herbal medicines that genuinely works against esophageal cancer; purple sal ammoniac (zi naosha) is especially effective. Recently I observed several patients treated with purple sal ammoniac products for esophageal carcinoma, and all achieved very obvious short-term results—results…

Today a cancer patient from Shandong, treated by me for nearly a year, came for follow-up. Compared with his first visit last year, his complexion and general condition are much better; his scans show ascites and tumor markers also markedly improved. He came to me…

I have seen three cancer patients with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis in clinic; two are patients I am currently treating, and the third was one I observed under the care of a well-known professor. Pulmonary tuberculosis is called feilao (lung consumption) in TCM, one of the…

In treating cancer, I have found that oncology knowledge alone is not enough; many cancer patients have a great number of complications. The most complicated case I have seen carried seventeen major conditions, including cancer, diabetes and pulmonary tuberculosis, and was dying, bedridden; the complexity…

Some patients, once diagnosed with cancer, think of nothing else day and night. When taking Chinese herbs for cancer, they want to drink them all 365 days a year; missing even one dose leaves them uneasy. This belief is wrong. Even in treating cancer with…

This is part of a case I treated for a long-time reader of this blog; the patient is still doing well. The patient, a 43-year-old man, had peritoneal mesothelioma. When he first came to me, his CA125 was 66.47 (normal reference 0–35), with multiple hepatic…

I have personally encountered several cancer patients treated by an elderly TCM physician surnamed Wei in Beijing, who has since disappeared from the profession. The therapeutic results were quite satisfactory; some patients survived for a very long time after his treatment and maintained a good…

If it hurts, it is not free-flowing; if it is free-flowing, it does not hurt. This saying is often quoted, and in TCM tumor treatment many physicians make blood-activating and stasis-resolving an important treatment principle. But applying this method to cancer has many hidden dangers.