Yanghe Tang ⁽¹⁰⁾

When yang harmony spreads its transformation, yin qi follows; the generative qi is rich and transforming, and all things flourish. —Huangdi Neijing Suwen, Wuchang Zheng Dalun (Plain Questions, Treatise on the Constant Responsive Energies) Personality disorders are social maladjustment caused by stable, distorted cognition. In…

The patient, Li, female, age 51, from Dongying, Shandong, was a circle friend of the Sina cancer patients' circle. First seen October 19, 2015. Before the visit, B-ultrasound at a local hospital showed that the patient's leiomyosarcoma had metastasized to multiple sites distributed within the…

Wang Hongxu (1669–1749), given name Weide, literary name Linwu Sanren and also Dingdingzi, was a native of Wu County, Jiangsu. His family had practiced medicine for generations; his great-grandfather Wang Ruogu was renowned as an ulcer physician and compiled Jingyan Yanfang (Proven Effective Formulas), treasured…

This is the treatment record of one of my patients. In 2013, after repeated Western treatments failed, he turned to TCM. He first sought treatment from a famous anti-cancer professor; when that failed, he decided to come to me. He then received my treatment on…

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,…

The origin and composition of Xihuang Wan Xihuang Wan is a very famous Chinese patent medicine for treating cancer. It is made from a secret ancestral formula of Wang Hongxu, the Qing-dynasty physician and founder of the Quansheng school of Chinese external medicine. According to…

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…

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…

In clinical practice, I have again used modified Yanghe Tang to treat cancer with marked short-term effects: one patient with small-cell lung cancer and one with peritoneal mesothelioma. Judging from signs of yang deficiency such as aversion to cold, cold limbs, and anemia, I used…

Yanghe Tang (Yang-Warming Decoction) is a prescription I particularly love; I have used it widely to treat cancers of the yin pattern, benign tumors, asthma, rhinitis, body deficiency, purpura, bone hyperplasia, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, and many other conditions, and have repeatedly obtained good…