TCM Principles and Formulas for Cancer ⁽²⁴⁾

Drug resistance is a common phenomenon in cancer treatment. Because cancer cells are constantly proliferating and evolving, they mutate during proliferation; daughter cancer cells are not genetically identical to parent cells. Therefore, drugs effective against the parent cells may not remain effective against some daughter…

Cancer patients easily develop complications such as pleural and ascitic effusion, pericardial effusion, and pelvic effusion. Some patients, after teaching themselves a little TCM, learn that Shizao Tang in the Shanghan Lun and Jingui Yaolue treats 'suspended fluid' (xuan yin), and so take Shizao Tang…

Recently, building on my earlier work, I have further refined the formula, combining more than a hundred Chinese herbs to treat adult cancer, with modest results. I now write this article to introduce my experience in prescribing.The Chinese herbs I use include the following: mao-zhao-cao…

During radiotherapy and chemotherapy, childhood tumor patients develop nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, hair loss and other symptoms; without appropriate adjuvant treatment, the child's quality of life is seriously affected. I respectfully publish here the adjuvant formulas I commonly use for childhood tumor patients undergoing radiotherapy…

Starting in October 2018, I began trying my own self-created approach of multi-target, broad-spectrum anti-cancer therapy using large traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) compound formulas on some cancer patients for whom other conventional Chinese and Western treatments had failed. It has achieved certain results, and I…

1 The bamboo hut is bare, the birds chatter; content with the view, I lie in the cold village. Only the art of raising the dying back to life is in mind; how could I seek the gates of fur coats and fat horses. The…

There is a folk saying, "If the drug matches the pattern, a single bowlful cures." Many TCM classics also describe effects like "recovery as soon as the cup is turned upside down" or "effect as immediate as a drum to a drumstick." "Recovery on turning…

Using a single herb to treat disease is an ideal state, but it is not easily attained. So the common situation is that a single TCM prescription contains multiple herbs. When various herbs are combined and used together according to certain rules, that is the…

For a physician who treats disease with oral formulas and herbs, the basis on which he selects formulas and herbs is crucial. According to traditional TCM theory, treating disease follows the sequence of "principle, method, formula, and herb" (li-fa-fang-yao). After observing, listening-questioning, and palpating a…

1. The greatest way is the simplest Truth is half a sheet of paper; idle talk fills ten thousand books. I intend to use only one article, rather than a thick book, to set out my core philosophy of treating cancer—in truth, this philosophy is…