For thousands of years, there has been a rich variety of prescriptions, experimental prescriptions and miraculous prescriptions passed down among the people to treat difficult and miscellaneous diseases. The “partial prescriptions”, i.e., single prescriptions, refer to the prescriptions with few flavors and unique curative effects on certain diseases; “experimental prescriptions”, not the ones handed down in ancient medical books, but the ones that have not been proven but have clinical efficacy, are generally folk prescriptions; experimental prescriptions and partial prescriptions Some similarities. “Odd prescriptions” refer to prescriptions with a single medicine or medicine flavors combined in a single number. These related prescription books and works are as vast as a sea, and among them, there are many partial, strange and experimental prescriptions for cancer treatment. Do these prescriptions work or not? In clinical practice, patients often ask me about small prescriptions for cancer treatment such as red dates, iron tree leaves, half-branch lily and white flowered snake-tongue herbs that are widely spread on the Internet, or strange prescriptions such as eating toad skin, or using Chinese herbal medicine Huang Yao Zi to treat thyroid tumors, or using Chinese herbal medicine Mu Bei Zi to treat advanced liver cancer, all of which may have certain effects, but in the end, they cannot be generalized, and most of them end up being counterproductive. Why? The first two prescriptions are cold in nature, and although animal experiments have proven their anti-tumor efficacy, they will harm the spleen and stomach if they are used to clear heat and detoxify the toxins over time, so that the tumor will not be removed, but will damage the body’s vital energy and make the body even weaker. Huang Yao Zi and Mu Bei Zi may shrink the tumor lesions in a short time, but if they are left under the guidance of doctors, or if they are applied for a long time, they will have toxic side effects such as liver function damage. I once met a patient with prostate cancer who took toad skin (not the herbal drink supplied by the hospital) by himself and developed allergic laryngeal edema, but fortunately the treatment was timely and did not have serious consequences. Why would a cancer patient try a partial, strange or experimental prescription? The reasons: 1. Although the survival period of cancer patients has been extended with the development of science and technology, and cancer has become a chronic disease, cancer is still a major disease that has not yet been conquered and ranks second among various causes of death. 2. When conventional treatment is not particularly effective, patients are tempted to try out “biased and miraculous prescriptions” once they hear about them. Thirdly, Chinese herbal medicine is taken from the treasure house of nature, and natural herbal medicine has emerged on the international stage due to its high efficiency and low toxicity, especially in tumor treatment, Chinese medicine has become one of the multidisciplinary integrated treatment methods, and its advantageous position is becoming more and more obvious. The discovery of “partial, miraculous and experimental prescriptions” from TCM has become the life-saving straw for cancer patients. In Chinese medicine, the four diagnoses of “looking, smelling, asking and cutting” are used to determine the disease mechanism and symptoms. If patients do not identify the evidence and do not consult a Chinese medicine practitioner, but try “partial, strange and experimental prescriptions” on their own, then some people will take them effectively, some will take them ineffectively, and some will take them to aggravate their disease. In the jargon of Chinese medicine, “the prescription is not the right evidence”. In layman’s terms, Chinese medicine is “a key to open a lock”, not “a key to open all the locks”. The “partial, strange and experimental prescriptions” may cause the patients to miss the time of treatment and even aggravate the disease. In addition to the so-called herbal remedies and prescriptions for cancer treatment, some patients believe that dieting can cure cancer, which is a big disappointment to our doctors. Some people believe in the so-called “starving tumor to death”. By reducing the intake of high sugar and high protein food to reduce the nutrition of tumor cells, they think they can “starve the cancer cells” and end up with skin and bones. The blog details how Ms. Liu and Yu, accompanied by her family, rushed to the rural area of Huangshan to receive treatment, as did another patient, Mr. Jin, from Hefei, Anhui province, who lived in a farmhouse rented by Dr. Yang. According to Dr. Yang’s arrangement, the three people could only eat alkaline taro and grapes and take Chinese medicine prepared by Dr. Yang three times a day while receiving treatment. Among them, Ms. Liu was the first to vomit white foam and cough up blood. By mid-October 2010, Ms. Liu’s tumor had already deteriorated, and she was taken to the hospital by her family on October 17 and died on October 21. Upon receiving the news of Ms. Liu’s death, the two remaining patients and their families quickly left the mountain village, and the two patients later died one after another. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has been talking about “nourishing the right product to remove itself”. The human body does not get balanced food nutrition, only to make the body’s positive energy further decay and unable to resist the evil, the disease will not improve, as the so-called “positive energy within, the evil can not dry”. For example, paclitaxel, an anti-tumor chemical drug, is extracted from red bean fir, and huachanin injection is the active ingredient of toad, etc. These drugs have achieved good curative effects in clinical application. For some of the prescriptions and test prescriptions that do have curative effects, further development and research are expected to provide evidence-based medical evidence for their suitability for patients and symptoms. However, prescriptions are after all prescriptions, there are “gold” and “garbage”, and some are even toxic products. Some people “hit the right road”, and others “lost their lives”. Because of their folk origins and incomplete interpretation of Chinese medical theory, prescriptions and tests are often spread in the form of stories or passed down in the family, which are legendary and may exaggerate their efficacy. Therefore, it is more important to screen and use them carefully with a critical eye when treating biased, strange and experimental prescriptions for cancer treatment. Even for the same disease, there are many types of Chinese medicine, and each type of treatment is different in terms of medicine, which is called “different treatment for the same disease”. Therefore, it is best to choose the right prescription under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, according to the clinical manifestations of symptoms, such as appearance, heat and cold, deficiency and actuality, and according to the suitability of the individual, and to follow up regularly to adjust the prescription according to the changes in the symptoms.