Miscellaneous thoughts on TCM treatment for loss of appetite

It is different from vomiting and not caused by obstruction. At present, the effect of medications such as megestrol acetate and medroxyprogesterone acetate used in modern medicine is not satisfactory, so it is necessary for us to study the improvement of this symptom and the quality of life of patients. First of all, the causes of loss of appetite are related to the disease itself, such as gastric cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer and other digestion-related diseases, after the major resection of gastric cancer, the stomach has little capacity and poor decomposition function; liver cancer portal hypertension, which props up the gastric mucosa, and does not want to eat and food returns upward, will also lose appetite; pancreatic cancer part of the pancreatic enzyme deficiency, poor digestive function. 2.The side effects of chemotherapy can produce loss of appetite. 3.Thoracoabdominal fluid can also cause loss of appetite. It is well understood that ascites can cause loss of appetite, but when the amount of pleural fluid is large, it can also cause loss of appetite, which should not be ignored. 4, low sodium can also cause loss of appetite and mental changes. 5. Anemia can also cause loss of appetite. Sixth, cachexia can cause loss of appetite. The first treatment for loss of appetite is symptomatic treatment, such as sodium supplementation for low sodium, blood supplementation for anemia, thoraco-abdominal fluid drainage for thoraco-abdominal fluid, growth inhibitor for portal hypertension, intravenous supplementation for cachexia, etc. However, there are still many patients whose appetite cannot be improved. For this reason, I have been thinking hard about this matter, and have consulted no less than 40 Chinese and Western medical oncologists, but unfortunately, they did not get a more satisfactory answer, so I had no choice but to figure it out by myself, and finally came up with these five methods. This is a formula for treating water vomiting in tumor patients, but later it was also used to improve appetite with good effect. I once had a patient with squamous lung cancer coughing up blood frequently, and all medicines were ineffective. The patient was able to eat a bean bag, a small bowl of porridge and an egg, and from then on he also figured out the formula to improve appetite. This formula is for loss of spleen health, deficiency of liver and kidney, and loss of appetite. When to use this formula? 1. for those with more gastric cutting and poorer gastric peristaltic function. 2. for those with wasting, no phlegm or less phlegm of this consumption type, this formula is often effective with a single dose. 2.Treatment of phlegm with loss of appetite formula Consists of 60g of raw ochre, 15g of spineflower, 6g of leech, 8 of centipede, 60g of raw oyster, 30g of sea floating stone, 20g of codonopsis, 15g of henbane, 15g of raw malt, 10g of soursop, 15g of bamboo rhizome, 30g of white foxglove, 1 dose per day with water decoction. Originally this formula is a folk formula for treating gastric cancer and esophageal cancer. In clinical use, this formula was found to be effective in treating loss of appetite caused by esophageal cancer, and then later it was found to be effective for loss of appetite due to phlegm, but the effect of this formula is slowed down, and at least 7 doses should be taken before it is effective. 3.Blood cupping on subcutaneous nodules in the back of the lower back. Blood cupping on subcutaneous nodules around the points of Liver Yu, Gall Bladder Yu, Spleen Yu, Stomach Yu and Kidney Yu is usually effective once every 3 days. This method has the strongest effect in treating loss of appetite, and is not the fastest method. 4, mango needles along the stomach around the stab This incorporates the knowledge of Western medicine anatomy, according to the anatomical structure of the stomach around the stab, needles into the body, the stomach itself will avoid the needles of the milli needle, around the stomach mango needle needles will make the stomach surrounded by frequent peristalsis up and down, can empty the stomach contents quickly, generating a sense of hunger. This is the fastest solution to improve appetite, most patients have hunger in less than a minute of needling, I describe it as “killing appetite loss in seconds”. 5, the base of the tongue vein bloodletting the base of the tongue vein with a syringe needle prick blood can improve appetite, bloodletting to treat what kind of loss of appetite it is the treatment of patients with loss of appetite whether eating or drinking, drinking medicine choking cough, after pricking blood symptoms will be relieved.