Tumor ⁽³¹⁾

For patients with advanced abdominal tumors, Zhao Shaoqin advocated slow treatment with pills. Below is a pill formula he left for such patients, from Zhao Shaoqin Linzheng 400 Fa (400 Clinical Methods of Zhao Shaoqin), p. 54. Xuanfuhua (Inula) 15 g, Danggui 30 g, Chishao…

Malignant tumors growing in the chest cavity, abdominal cavity, and pelvic cavity should be treated first with the purgative (gongxia) method. Today's patients are soft and spoiled; they rejoice at tonics and fear warming attack. Worse, various so-called leading experts in TCM blindly emphasize supporting…

Xiaoluo Wan (Scrofula-Dispersing Pill) is a famous formula from Yixue Xinwu (Medical Mind-Awakening) for treating phlegm-nodules and scrofula (various benign and malignant tumors and tuberculous lesions). It consists of three herbs—Xuanshen (Scrophularia), Zhebeimu (Zhejiang Fritillary), and Shengmuli (raw Oyster shell)—and treats scrofula and phlegm-nodules due…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Lately I have seen so many cervical cancer patients that I cannot answer everyone's inquiries individually. I therefore write an article on cervical cancer treatment, hoping it may help cervical cancer patients. Among cancers, cervical cancer is relatively speaking not the most fearsome; most cervical…

The five zang and six fu should be free-flowing; the exterior and interior, and the nutritive and defensive qi, should be harmonized. When zang-fu are free, there are no accumulations; when exterior-interior and nutritive-defensive are harmonized, phlegm-dampness is scant. Tangible cancer, in TCM view, mostly…