There is no clinical statistics on how long patients can take traditional Chinese medicine after surgery for early-stage lung cancer, and it is generally recommended that patients should start taking traditional Chinese medicine after their condition is stabilized as prescribed by doctors.
Generally speaking, the specific time for early-stage cancer patients to take traditional Chinese medicine after surgery should be based on the stable condition of patients and reasonable reference. At present, the basic treatment principle for cancer is to support the positive and dispel the evil (support the positive qi in the body and get rid of the evil qi in the body), and to apply both attacking and tonifying methods, which should be combined with the medical history, symptoms, laboratory examination, and the different phases before and after the surgery or radiochemotherapy to comprehensively analyze and discriminate the evidence.
Supporting the positive can be done by replenishing qi, nourishing blood, nourishing yin, and warming the patient’s positive qi at all times.
Dispelling evil can be done by regulating qi, removing dampness, dissolving phlegm, eliminating blood stasis, detoxifying, softening and dispersing hard lumps, etc. Combined with the location of the disease and the nature of the tumor, Chinese traditional medicines with anti-tumor effects can be appropriately formulated for comprehensive treatment, removing the evil in the body of the patient, which can effectively alleviate the patient’s symptoms of the disease.
Post-operative lung cancer patients should carry out standardized treatment under the guidance of doctors, and should not use medicines on their own.