Can Chinese medicine cure cancer, Zhihu?

Cancer is now recognized as the bane of mankind. Many people think it is a genetic disease and an incurable disease. Chinese medicine can't do anything, but it doesn't mean it doesn't work. Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from cancer. After suffering from cancer, people usually choose western medicine. The characteristic of western medicine is that it can help patients to relieve their pain quickly, but it is only temporary. The practice of western medicine is to directly remove the tumor from the diseased part, then carry out radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and take western medicine to inhibit the development of the tumor.

Western medicine can only solve this problem superficially, just like a tree is sick, mainly because there is something wrong with the soil below it. It is unrealistic to replace the soil where trees grow. The practice of western medicine is to cut off all the diseased parts of the tree, thus prolonging the life of the tree. But the root of the problem is that the soil is not in the trees. After cutting off the diseased part of the tree, other parts of the tree will soon become ill and eventually die. Sometimes cutting off the diseased part of the tree may accelerate the death of the tree.

As one of the four quintessences of China, TCM has a history of 5000 years. Although its effect in treating cancer is not obvious, it does not mean that it is useless. Clinical practice has proved that the survival time of patients with advanced cancer treated by integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine will be twice as long as that treated by western medicine alone. Traditional Chinese medicine is slow to take effect because the dominant idea of traditional Chinese medicine is to treat all organs of the human body as a whole, unlike western medicine, which only treats headaches. If a person has stomach cancer, taking traditional Chinese medicine is not only to regulate the stomach, but also to regulate the five internal organs related to the stomach.

Traditional Chinese medicine has a special function, which is to help patients dredge qi and blood, which will naturally prolong the life span of cancer patients and alleviate their pain. Pancreatic cancer is called the king of cancer, and patients with pancreatic cancer usually live less than two years. A large number of clinical practices show that some patients with pancreatic cancer can even live for another 20 years after taking traditional Chinese medicine combined with treatment. I am firmly opposed to the useless theory of traditional Chinese medicine. Some people even say that taking Chinese medicine will accelerate the death of cancer patients, which is completely nonsense. Existence is reasonable. Traditional Chinese medicine, as the quintessence of Chinese medicine, can exist so far, and naturally has its irreplaceable role in western medicine.