Can TCM cure cancer? Asking this question can definitely lead to a big debate.
"It's hard to say whether Chinese medicine can treat cancer, but I haven't seen Western medicine treat cancer well."
"I have been using TCM for thousands of years, what is the average life expectancy?" How much has the average life expectancy increased since Western medicine came in? No contrast, no harm! ”
"Western medicine destroys the human ecology, Chinese medicine maintains the human ecology, and Chinese medicine heals the root of cancer."
"For cancer patients, Chinese medicine is a dead horse as a live horse doctor, or even a placebo."
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For the treatment of cancer by traditional Chinese medicine, many people have different views, chinese medicine is china's traditional medicine, circulated for thousands of years, in ancient times to play a huge role in people's health, and there are really records of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of tumors.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > Sima Shi - China's first eye tumor surgery patient</h1>
"Emperor Jing" Sima Shi was the eldest son of the great general Sima Yi during the Wei Dynasty, after Sima Yi's death, Sima Shi, who was both wise and courageous, inherited the position of his father's general and took over the military and political power, and there are many records in the history books about Sima Shi suffering from eye tumors, Sima Shi had a black tumor under his left eye when he was very young, and it was Hua Tuo, the god doctor of the State of Wei who treated him.
In the book "Taiping Imperial Records", it is recorded that Hua Tuo did the surgery for Sima Shi's eye tumor, and it is written that at that time, Hua Tuo used the treatment method of "out of the pupil of the eye, cutting off the disease and the internal medicine", that is, after cutting off the eye tumor, applying medicine, this treatment method was very advanced at that time, hua Tuo was worthy of being a divine doctor.
However, Sima Shi's eye tumor was not completely eradicated, 40 years later, when Sima Shi was fighting with Wen Duan fiercely, he was frightened by Wen Duan's ferocious momentum and his condition recurred, the wound was cracked, and the blood was direct, but in order to stabilize the military's heart, Sima Shi covered his face with a quilt, and the pain was unbearable, Sima Shi bit the quilt, unfortunately, because his condition deteriorated too quickly, Sima Shi died soon after.
It can be seen that in ancient China, there was a matter of traditional Chinese medicine treating tumors, during the Han Wendi period, Chun Yuyi also recorded a case of stomach cancer, but interestingly, cancer was not called cancer in ancient times, there were various names.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > what was cancer called in ancient times? </h1>
The word cancer first came from the Greek "father of medicine" Hippocrates, he used "carcinos" and "carcionoma" when describing tumors, in Greek, both words are the meaning of "crab", the appearance of crabs is not difficult to think of the spreadability of cancer, which coincides with the infinite growth of cancer cells and the consumption of nutrients in the body. In China, tumors were already described as "swollen" in the Western Zhou Dynasty, although it was not possible to distinguish between benign tumors and malignant tumors at that time, but the death reports and medical records that deserve attention were also valued.
The emergence of "cancer" appeared in the early twelfth century, appearing in the wei jibao book on breast cancer, recording that some women suffered from "milk rock", festering for three years and died, and then Yang Shiying recorded the description of certain cancer characteristics in Ren Ji's direct pointing to the fang theory.
With the recording of more and more cancer cases, China's traditional Chinese medicine has also deepened its understanding of the cause and pathology of tumors, and gradually explored treatment methods, such as the treatment theory of Wang Kentang and Zhang Jingyue in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Kentang's book "The Criterion of Evidence and Treatment" recorded: "Treatment is the first, middle and last three methods of disease", and Zhang Jingyue wrote in detail in the "Jingyue Quanshu": "The cure of all accumulation ... But the four laws, the attack, the elimination, the dispersion, the supplement, the four are just."
These treatment theories have a very important guiding significance for modern Chinese medicine in the treatment of tumors, so how does today's Chinese medicine treat cancer?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" >How does TCM treat cancer in modern times? </h1>
At present, according to the condition of cancer patients, there are four main methods of TCM treatment of cancer. Dr. Feng Ni of the Oncology Department of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine said that there are obvious differences in different treatment methods.
1. Combination of traditional Chinese medicine and surgery
It is undeniable that the main treatment method for malignant tumors is surgery, however, for patients with middle and advanced cancer, while treating cancer with surgery, it will also cause great harm, and even postoperative cancer recurrence and metastasis will occur, when Chinese medicine treats cancer, the emphasis is on "correcting and suppressing cancer", through the function of conditioning the internal organs, not only can reduce the damage caused by surgery, it is conducive to the recovery of the patient's condition, but also effectively prevent the recurrence and metastasis of postoperative cancer.
2. Traditional Chinese medicine combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy
In fact, when radiotherapy and chemotherapy kill cancer cells, it will also kill normal cell tissues, and patients will also have different degrees of adverse reactions, the quality of life is greatly reduced, there are a large number of trials to confirm that traditional Chinese medicine can reduce the adverse reactions brought about by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and at the same time can also increase the effect of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, such as Mai Dong, Dendrobium can alleviate the head and neck cancer radiation therapy caused by dry mouth, dry tongue, sore throat, and then such as qi and blood vitality of astragalus, safflower and other Traditional Chinese medicine can increase the effect of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
3. Survival with tumors
In the middle and late stages of malignant tumors, in order to ensure the quality of life of patients, Chinese medicine advocates patients to "survive with tumors", especially incurable tumors, to pay attention to the subjective feelings of patients and improve the quality of life as the premise of survival with tumors.
In this regard, some people have asked whether if we only rely on traditional Chinese medicine to cure cancer.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > can only rely on Chinese medicine to cure cancer? </h1>
Advanced metastatic cancer, surgery is difficult to solve, radiotherapy costs are also high, it is recommended to take a variety of methods within the economically affordable range, including traditional Chinese medicine and human systemic conditioning comprehensive treatment, Chinese Academy of Engineering academician Cheng Shujun on whether Chinese medicine can cure cancer expressed his views, he believes that although there is no scientific report there is a large number of clinical evidence-based medical observations, proving that Chinese medicine can cure what tumor, the cure rate is what, but Chinese medicine does play a good role in adjusting the overall function of people.
Therefore, "combination fist" is the best way to treat cancer, Professor Zhang Bei, director of comprehensive traditional Chinese medicine at the Cancer Prevention and Control Center of Sun Yat-sen University, also said that only traditional Chinese medicine can not cure cancer, in other words, no matter what kind of treatment method, there are long and short boards, only the comprehensive condition and the patient's tolerance, the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, in order to achieve the best treatment effect, for patients, it is also the best choice. #Health Star Program ##谣零零计划 #
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