Chinese herbal treatment after tumor surgery

How to carry out traditional Chinese medicine treatment after tumor surgery has a very important relevance to the recovery of patient’s body and the establishment of their own resistance to disease as soon as possible. However, there are many misunderstandings in the application of TCM after tumor surgery for most patients. Most patients need to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy after surgery, and the adjuvant treatment of TCM should be carried out at the same time. In the clinical encounter, many patients told me that Dr. XX said that they should take TCM only after chemotherapy and radiotherapy are finished. There is a huge difference in the health status of patients during chemotherapy, many of them have to stop chemotherapy even in the middle of the treatment without TCM, and some of them rely on injections of leukocyte-raising drugs to keep chemotherapy going. In contrast, patients who underwent simultaneous adjuvant treatment with Chinese herbal medicine completed all chemotherapy safely. Since TCM is to improve the patient’s own resistance to disease, there is no need for a large amount of anti-tumor drugs to be applied to the patient, because the tumor in the patient’s body has been surgically removed, and since there is no substantial evil, what are those drugs going to attack? The anti-cancer effect of a big sack of anti-tumor herbs is far less than the efficacy of one chemical drug; however, a big sack of regulatory TCM herbs can not compare with any chemical drug in terms of immune capacity enhancement and recovery of body functions. Some breast cancer patients have to undergo endocrine therapy for several years after radiotherapy, which is not as reasonable as the effect of TCM in terms of expected efficacy level. Chinese medicine is a systemic regulator, while endocrine therapy should be considered as a whole, which is not comprehensive from the current approach. The side effects of drugs endured by endocrine therapists are hard to be experienced by those who are not. Most of the tumor patients are no longer the same after the surgery, so from the principle of “deficiency is tonic” in Chinese medicine, those patients who are still taking several bowls of anti-cancer herbal juice every day should calmly think about their treatment methods.