In the bedside table of some tumor patients, there are piles of anti-cancer Chinese medicines. Some of them are dispensed in the hospital, some are bought in pharmacies by themselves after listening to people’s introduction, and some are given for free after attending lectures. If you are a Chinese cancer patient, you will definitely have to deal with Chinese herbal medicines, so is it better to have more anti-cancer herbal medicines? Does anti-cancer herbal medicine have to be used to fight poison with poison? The answer from oncologists is “No”, and they point out the misconceptions of cancer patients about anti-cancer herbal medicines one by one. Mine 1: More anti-cancer herbal medicines are better. Cancer patients often have piles of anti-cancer herbal medicines at home. This one is introduced by the third aunt, that one is recommended by the sixth mother-in-law, there are regular drugs from big hospitals, and there are many health care products as life-saving miracle drugs, and patients and families are happy to talk about them. Are there more anti-cancer herbal medicines? According to the introduction, it is understandable to use anti-cancer herbal medicines to help fight against cancer and regulate the body, but Chinese medicine needs to be targeted in the treatment of tumors, and it is not good for more than one, and it is better to use it under the guidance of professional doctors according to the condition. Many cancer patients and their families often have misunderstanding about anti-cancer Chinese medicine. The most common one is that “fighting poison with poison is the anti-cancer medicine”. They require that the prescription of Chinese medicine should not only include such herbal medicines as half-root lotus, white flowered snake tongue herb and rhubarb to clear heat and detoxify the body, but also such herbal medicines as centipede, whole scorpion and toad skin to attack poison with poison, which can cause great reaction in the digestive tract after being taken by patients, but patients and family members are still convinced. Once these drugs are not available, they are questioned by the patients and their families. Although the lump of tumor patients grows locally, it is a local manifestation of the overall disease, which will bring many discomforts to the patients and the etiology and pathogenesis are often complicated. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that tumor is a case of positive deficiency, and the principle of treatment should be “regulating yin and yang, supporting positive and dispelling evil”, and it is difficult to solve the pathological condition of positive deficiency and evil by using heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs, or using ginseng, American ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum to support positive. Many people think that all kinds of expensive herbs are the most effective means of tonic for tumor patients. Once the body is weak, those who are a little better off have to use Korean ginseng, northeastern deer antler, Tibetan cordyceps; those who are a little worse off also have to drink some wild lingzhi and tortoise. A drink, a tonic, before resting. Another important principle of Chinese medicine in treating tumors is to “identify the symptoms and prescribe the right medicine”. The symptoms are mostly evil, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, there are manifestations of silt, phlegm, dampness, fire and heat. The essence refers to the positive qi, which can be divided into qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, yang deficiency and so on, each of which has its own symptoms. The majority of tumor patients have both positive deficiency and evil prevalence, but the preference between evil and positive differs from patient to patient. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the evidence and understand the preference of the patient’s evil and positive before increasing or decreasing the medicine to support the positive and dispel the evil. Expensive tonic herbs may not be suitable for you, and if you use them blindly without a doctor’s diagnosis, they may even have the opposite effect on your body, which would be more than worth the loss. The more expensive the medicine is, the better it is. The more expensive the medicine is, the better. Chinese medicine prescriptions are about compatibility, too many flavors of medicine may not increase the effectiveness. Mine 4: secret prescription is the remedy for cancer Some tumor patients or their family members try every possible means to find biased and secret prescriptions to fight cancer. This recipe is introduced by the left neighbor, that recipe is recommended by the right house; this recipe has been used for many years, that recipe has cured many tumor patients; this recipe is from Yunnan, that recipe is from Tibet, the more mysterious it is, the more it can arouse the interest of patients and families, regardless of the actual effect, they have to try it to die. Chinese medicine treatment for tumor is about “different treatment for the same disease and different treatment for different disease”. The same disease means the same disease, such as liver cancer, western medicine treatment and medicine can be the same, but not Chinese medicine. In the same case of breast cancer, the prescription of Chinese medicine is completely different due to the difference in age and physical condition, and whether there are comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Therefore, in order to use Chinese medicine, one must look, ask, smell and cut, see the tongue and take the pulse before prescribing the medicine. It is inappropriate to use one prescription or secret prescription for more than one person, even for the same disease. Special reminder: tell your doctor your western medical treatment plan when you see a Chinese doctor Many people think that when you see a Chinese doctor, you do not need to tell his or her doctor is using western medical treatment; some people think that Chinese doctors do not need to know western medicine, or even think that the Chinese doctor who knows western medicine is not a good Chinese doctor. In fact, all these are wrong. When using TCM to fight against cancer, it is also necessary to inform the doctor of the Western medicine anti-cancer methods used. The stage of tumor is different, the patient’s constitution is different, and the methods used by western doctors are different, so the TCM treatment should also change with it. For example, if the patient is treated with chemotherapy, he or she mostly shows symptoms of weakness of spleen and stomach, such as fatigue and decrease of white blood cells, so the focus of TCM treatment is mainly on strengthening the spleen and stomach to reduce the adverse effects of chemotherapy.
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