Can Chinese medicine treat cancer?

Chinese medicine can treat cancer with a long history. After a long period of experience, the treatment plan is more mature. Especially after modern western medicine surgery combined with chemotherapy, Chinese medicine treatment can improve the overall quality of life and five-year survival rate of patients. However, under the current medical level, some cancers are difficult to be completely cured and can only be cured clinically, that is, patients can get a five-year survival rate. Chinese medicine treatment is no exception, although it can treat cancer, but it can not achieve the effect of radical cure.

Cancer is a kind of rock disease in traditional Chinese medicine, which is mostly caused by stagnation of qi and blood, blood stasis, endogenous phlegm and turbidity, and finally turns into caking. According to the different parts of the disease, it can be divided into hepatolithiasis and kidney calculi. Traditional Chinese medicine adheres to the method of holistic treatment and four diagnosis and syndrome differentiation in the treatment of cancer, and can only choose drugs after defining the symptoms and signs of cancer.

If there is blood stasis syndrome, traditional Chinese medicines such as Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Sanguis Draxonis, Semen Persicae, Flos Carthami, Fructus Aurantii, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, etc. Chinese angelica, American ginseng, Achyranthes bidentata, Radix Rehmanniae and other drugs for promoting blood circulation and tonifying kidney are often used. For those with phlegm-dampness and blood stasis, tangerine peel, orange peel, Pinellia tuber and other phlegm-resolving drugs are commonly used, supplemented by Prunella vulgaris, Poria, Atractylodes macrocephala and Atractylodes lancea.