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Xiao Mi, female, 45 years old, a resident of Meihekou City, Jilin Province, a patient with leiomyosarcoma; first visit on November 22, 2015. The patient had already undergone multiple surgeries for leiomyosarcoma and had received three years of Western surgical treatment, but her condition could…

Xuanfuhua (Inula Flower) is an important Chinese medicinal for treating hiccups, regurgitation, dysphagia (esophageal obstruction), and cough. In Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolue (Essentials from the Golden Cabinet), Xuanfuhua Daizheshi Tang (Inula and Haematitum Decoction) is a famous formula for hiccups, regurgitation, and dysphagia; its chief…

Opinions on the choice of cancer treatment regimens are divided, and it is hard to reach a consensus. Personally, I lean toward combined Chinese-Western treatment, because the probability of success is highest with combined therapy. But there is a subset of cancer patients for whom…

Old Physician Pu Fuzhou, from the passage on Guizhi Tang in the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage)—"cover warmly for about one period, until the whole body is gently, slightly sweating; it is best not to let sweat pour like water, or the disease will…

Many tumor patients eventually come to Beijing to try their luck. In fact, Beijing doctors are also helpless against tumors; some Beijing physicians talk grandly, with brilliance on the surface and rubbish underneath, yet many patients come to Beijing precisely for these 'famous doctors.' I…

"Fighting poison with poison" is one of the major principles of TCM cancer treatment; in virtually every TCM anti-tumor prescription, there are more or less some poisonous herbs. Practice has proved that fighting poison with poison is also one of the TCM anti-cancer means with…

Li Zhongzi (style name Shicai, hao Nian'e), a TCM physician of the Ming dynasty, showed unusual talent from youth and was exceptionally bright. Born into a scholarly family—his father was a jinshi of the Wanli era, 17th year—Li Zhongzi received a good education from childhood.

If I had not listened to doctors I would not be alive; if I had listened entirely to doctors I would not be alive either. ——Veteran cancer fighter Brother Bin Brother Bin was a veteran liver-cancer fighter I once wrote about, who fought liver cancer…

In the book Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji (Complete Collection of Surgery Patterns and Treatment), Wang Hongxu, in treating yong-ju (the swellings and abscesses of old surgery—i.e., what are today called tumors, both benign and malignant), states a principle: "dispersion is esteemed, support-drainage is feared." Previously,…

Originally written June 4, 2013. For more than a year after my late mother passed away, I kept reflecting on the reasons her treatment failed. At the same time I was groping for experience in dealing with liver metastases and massive solid tumors. Gradually I…