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Seek help from traditional Chinese medicine to treat esophageal cancer

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the functions of syndrome differentiation and treatment, Chinese herbal medicine treatment and strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil include

1. gas stagnation type

The main symptoms: Early esophageal cancer has no obvious dysphagia, but only a feeling of choking, foreign body sensation or esophageal burning, chest tightness, tightness in the back and dysphagia. X

X-ray examination is mainly aimed at early esophageal cancer lesions. The tongue is pale and dark, with a thin white coating and a thin pulse.

Treatment: soothing liver and regulating qi, warming yang and benefiting qi, strengthening body resistance and inhibiting tumor.

2. Choke type

Main symptoms: simple symptoms, mild cough or dysphagia. X-ray examination mostly belongs to medullary esophageal cancer and mushroom umbrella esophageal cancer in the early and middle stage. The tongue is dark blue with yellowish white fur and thin pulse.

Treatment: anti-cancer, resolving stagnation, regulating qi and descending adverse, warming yang and strengthening body resistance.

3. Yin declines and Yang declines

Main symptoms: late onset, dysphagia, near obstruction, nausea and vomiting, emaciation, shortness of breath, listlessness, dry lips, dry stool like feces, dark red tongue, thin and thin, with little or no coating, yellow and black coating, chapped and thready pulse.

Treatment: prolong life, nourish yin and strengthen yang, benefit qi and nourish blood.

Chinese herbal medicine can treat different symptoms caused by esophageal cancer, cardiac cancer and gastric cancer, such as choking cough, reflux, dysphagia, emaciation, hoarseness, chest tightness, fatigue and focal reflex pain.