Advanced esophageal cancer can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine, but it cannot be used as the main treatment, and traditional Chinese medicine cannot completely cure the disease.
When choosing traditional Chinese medicine for patients with advanced esophageal cancer, it should be determined according to the actual condition and individual physique. For example, for those with qi deficiency and weak yang, qi tonifying and spleen-carrying soup can be added and reduced to nourish the spleen and kidneys. For those with deficiency of fluid and heat, Sha Shen Maidong Tang can be added and reduced to nourish Yin and moisten dryness (to nourish Yin essence and remove heat), generate fluid and clear heat.
Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of esophageal cancer is related to the dysfunction of liver, spleen and kidney, stagnation of qi, blood stasis, phlegm and turbidity, and dryness of fluid and blood, etc. Traditional Chinese medicines can alleviate the symptoms of patients with advanced esophageal cancer to a certain degree, but they cannot cure the disease completely, and traditional Chinese medicines can only be used as a supplemental method, not as the main treatment means for advanced esophageal cancer.
The specific use of traditional Chinese medicine should be based on the patient’s own condition and the diagnosis and treatment of the patient by professional Chinese medicine practitioners.