TCM Principles and Formulas for Cancer ⁽²⁴⁾

Goethe called the "insight" of discussing art "able to enter, able to penetrate everywhere, able to go through." To penetrate everywhere is to be unbiassed; to go through is to be unobstructed; to enter and yet be able to exit, one may thus avoid being…

Review Humankind has a very long history of understanding cancer. In the Zhou Li (Rites of Zhou) from the pre-Qin period, there is already a record of the "yongyi" (ulcer physician), a doctor who specifically treats tumor-like ulcer diseases. The ulcer physician's duty was to…

The Principles, Methods, Formulae and Medicinals of TCM Cancer Treatment Part One: Principle (Li) 1. Starting with Dongba Culture In Lijiang, Yunnan, there lives a small ethnic group called the Naxi. Though few in number, the Naxi have their own culture, religion and medicine; people…

Umbilical therapy (qiliao) is one of the external treatments of TCM and has existed since ancient times. The navel, in TCM meridian theory, is called Shenque (Spirit Palace) acupoint, one of the most important points on the human body. Ancient TCM held that Shenque is…