Thyroid Cancer ⁽⁶⁾

The location of thyroid cancer is generally relatively superficial, making it suitable for transdermal drug delivery with external medications. Hence, TCM has long had a tradition of using external plasters to treat thyroid cancer. This article introduces three external formulas for thyroid cancer for readers'…

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…

Tu Kuixian (1916–2003) was, before his death, head of internal medicine at the Changzhou Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He once treated a patient with bone metastasis from follicular adenocarcinoma of the thyroid. The patient first came to Dr. Tu on August 25, 1981.

In classical Chinese, "ying" (goiter) is a tumor growing on the neck. Around the year 100 AD, Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters) explained this term. Zhang Hua, the naturalist of the Western Jin dynasty, further pointed out in his Bowu Zhi…

Goiter is a common condition. In mild cases, only an enlargement of the thyroid gland in the neck is noticed; the swelling is soft rather than hard, and may be accompanied by nodules. When the goiter is very large, symptoms such as a sensation of…

Thyroid tumors are benign or malignant growths occurring in the thyroid. Benign tumors are generally thyroid adenomas; malignant ones are thyroid carcinomas. On palpation, the physician can feel thyroid nodules; some patients also have hoarseness and dysphagia. In TCM, thyroid tumors belong to the category…