Chinese Medicine for Tumors

Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are still the three major methods to treat tumors. However, surgery can damage internal organs and tissues and cause trauma and bleeding; radiotherapy and chemotherapy lack selectivity, have great toxic side effects on normal tissues and damage the immune function of the body. Combined with Chinese medicine treatment, it can reduce the side effects, strengthen the anti-cancer effect, enhance the immune function, prevent recurrence and metastasis, improve the quality of life and increase the survival rate. Therefore, the active application of traditional Chinese medicine combined with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy is very necessary and an important method to improve the therapeutic effect. 1. Combination of traditional Chinese medicine and surgery (1) Before surgery, the use of traditional Chinese medicine can increase the rate of surgical resection and reduce surgical complications, such as the use of traditional Chinese medicine that replenishes qi and nourishes blood, strengthens the spleen and replenishes the kidneys. In addition, the use of anticancer Chinese medicines before surgery can also control the development of cancer. (2) After surgery, the use of traditional Chinese medicine conditioning treatment is conducive to post-surgical recovery and creates conditions for subsequent radiotherapy and chemotherapy as soon as possible. Generally speaking, conditioning treatment includes regulating the spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and consolidating the surface, and nourishing yin and generating body fluid. 2, Chinese medicine and radiotherapy (1) prevention and treatment of toxic side effects and sequelae: Chinese medicine believes that radioactivity is a heat and poisonous evil, which is easy to injure the yin and consume the qi, and to nourish the yin and qi, clear the heat and detoxify the toxin, cool and replenish the qi and blood of the traditional Chinese medicine, which can alleviate the oropharyngitis, nasal inflammation, pneumonia, esophagitis, gastroenteritis and cystitis caused by radiotherapy as well as the radioactive hepatitis, radioactive brain reaction and bone marrow inhibition. Do not take these radiological side effects lightly, they affect the quality of life, affect the successful completion of radiotherapy, or endanger the patient’s life. (2) Sensitization to radiation therapy: Chinese medicine has a certain synergistic effect of sensitization and efficacy when combined with radiation therapy. This has been confirmed by a large number of experiments. (3) Consolidation of therapeutic effect by traditional Chinese medicine after radiotherapy: radiotherapy belongs to local irradiation, which only has killing power within the irradiation range. Cancer cells tend to metastasize, therefore, it is inevitable that there are residual cancer cells after radiotherapy. Traditional Chinese medicine is a kind of continuous relay treatment after radiotherapy. Adhering to long-term medication can improve long-term therapeutic effect and reduce tumor recurrence. Combination of traditional Chinese medicine and chemotherapy (1) Prevention and treatment of toxic side effects: Chinese medicine believes that chemotherapy damages qi and blood. If Chinese medicine is used to replenish qi and nourish blood, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the liver and kidney, etc., it has better therapeutic effect on the bone marrow suppression, gastrointestinal reaction, toxic myocarditis, hepatitis and renal function damage caused by chemotherapy. Western medicine, on the other hand, is often at its wits’ end in these areas. (2) The synergistic effect on chemotherapy drugs: many Chinese medicines that support the right side of the body, in conjunction with chemotherapy drugs, can enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy. 4. Anti-cancer treatment based on traditional Chinese medicine For advanced tumor patients who have lost the opportunity of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the use of traditional Chinese medicine is undoubtedly the best strategy. Combining with the patients’ physical condition and different kinds of diseases, on the basis of strengthening the body and cultivating the root, large dosage of anticancer traditional Chinese medicines can be used, so as to achieve the goal of strengthening the body to get rid of the evil, getting rid of the evil without hurting the body, improving the quality of patients’ life and prolonging the survival period.