As one of the malignant tumors, liver cancer is difficult to be detected at early stage, develops rapidly and is difficult to be cured, which has aroused widespread concern in the medical field. Although TCM treatment for liver cancer is not as miraculous as what the charlatans claim, it is by no means futile. As a major adjuvant therapy, although its role in eliminating local lesions and destroying cancer cells is not strong, it has its own characteristics and advantages in the treatment of liver cancer. Patients who blindly believe in charlatan doctors may also delay the disease. Chinese medicine’s understanding of hepatocellular carcinoma Primary hepatocellular carcinoma belongs to “liver accumulation”, “dropsy”, “fetish yellow”, “liver congestion”, and “obstruction” in Chinese medicine. “, “obstruction” and “jaundice”. The symptoms that manifest are mostly: intermittent or persistent pain in the liver area, epigastric mass, loss of appetite, general weakness, jaundice, lumpiness, abdominal distention, bleeding, and fever. These symptoms are similar to the symptoms of “spleen and stomach damage” in Chinese medicine. Therefore, Professor Yu Erxin, a famous Chinese and Western medical oncologist, believes that liver cancer patients are mostly suffering from “liver depression and spleen deficiency” in Chinese medicine. “The final result of “phlegm and silt” is liver cancer. The role of Chinese medicine in liver cancer treatment 1. Defending liver The liver is the largest metabolic plant in human body, which can synthesize, decompose and store all kinds of nutrients ingested by the body; degrade and excrete poisons and wastes, produce proteins and synthesize various enzymes. However, most domestic liver cancer patients have a background of hepatitis B cirrhosis and poor liver function, which is further damaged by surgery and radiotherapy and other treatments. Once the liver function is irreversibly damaged, patients will soon develop symptoms such as loss of appetite, general weakness, jaundice and ascites. In contrast, Chinese medicine, when used on a dialectical basis, can maximize the protection of the liver and promote the repair of liver cells. Many of the liver-protecting and enzyme-lowering drugs commonly used in clinical practice, such as glycine and biphenyldiphospholipid, are extracts from Chinese medicine. 2.Promote early recovery after surgery Surgery is an important means to treat early stage liver cancer. For patients with liver cancer who have the chance of surgery, they must undergo surgical resection, which may achieve the effect of radical cure. After surgery, Chinese medicine conditioning can not only promote the healing of surgical wound, the recovery of body and the improvement of immune function, but also prevent the metastasis recurrence after surgery. After surgery, the tumor has been mostly removed, but the vital energy is damaged and the internal organs are weak. At this time, Chinese medicine should start from cultivating the vital energy and consolidating the root, combined with detoxifying and anti-cancer herbs, moving Qi and invigorating Blood. Radiotherapy is an important part of liver cancer treatment. However, the adverse toxic side effects of chemotherapy drugs often make patients suffer a lot and terminate the treatment, causing the whole treatment to be abandoned halfway, and some patients even commit suicide because of despair. The so-called “chemotherapy” uses chemical drugs to kill cancer cells and “poison” them to death, but due to the lack of selectivity, it will also cause certain damage to normal tissues of human body, and often results in side effects such as bone marrow suppression, immune function suppression, liver and kidney toxicity, resulting in patients’ extremely poor quality of life. The quality of life is extremely poor. For these side effects after chemotherapy, TCM can effectively reduce the toxic side effects of various chemotherapy drugs by tonifying the spleen and stomach and nourishing the spleen and kidneys. Chinese herbs that strengthen the spleen and stomach can improve nausea and vomiting and other digestive discomforts caused by chemotherapy; while herbs that nourish the spleen and kidney and nourish Yin and blood can protect the hematopoietic function of bone marrow and prevent excessive decline of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets after chemotherapy. Radiotherapy is the direct irradiation of local tumors with high-energy rays to “burn” the cancer cells. With the continuous development of radiotherapy technology, three-dimensional radiation therapy has also been used for localized treatment of liver cancer. Radiotherapy can also cause various toxic side effects on the human body, such as local mucosal damage, bone marrow suppression, and white blood cell reduction. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the damage caused by radiotherapy is mostly identified as “heat and toxicity accumulation, qi and yin injury”, therefore, the dialectical treatment of “nourishing yin and clearing heat, strengthening spleen and benefiting qi” is indispensable after radiotherapy, which can help the body recover after radiotherapy. Ginseng, Astragalus, Acanthopanax, Fructus Lycii, longan, jujube, yellow essence, bone marrow, dendrobium, etc. can be added to the diet to nourish yin and nourish blood, strengthen spleen and kidney. 4. Chinese medicine palliative treatment for advanced liver cancer patients For advanced liver cancer patients who have lost surgery, radiotherapy and interventional chemotherapy, at this time, the focus of Chinese medicine palliative treatment is not on the size of the tumor, but on the improvement of symptoms, so as to improve the quality of life of advanced patients. If the patient has poor liver function, general weakness and loss of appetite, the patient is mostly diagnosed as “liver depression and spleen deficiency” in TCM, and the main treatment method is “strengthening the spleen and regulating the qi”, and the prescription is mostly “Ginseng Ling Bai Zhu San plus reduction”. For those with dry mouth and bitterness, sleeplessness and dreaminess, headache and redness of eyes, add Dan Pi, Gardenia, Scutellaria, etc. to dredge the liver and remove the fire. Therefore, TCM treatment should accompany the preoperative and postoperative period, radiotherapy and palliative treatment of liver cancer. While receiving standardized Western medical treatment, choose a TCM oncologist in a regular hospital and let TCM take the field when it should, in order to add bricks to liver cancer treatment.