When it comes to hematological diseases and tumors, everyone is scared. As a patient of hematological disease and tumor, if the treatment is not right, you will pay a heavy and painful price. Faced with the treatment options in hospitals, how to choose? What effect can western medical treatment achieve? What problems can be solved by TCM treatment? How to take less detours in the treatment process and achieve significant results? These are all questions that patients and families are very concerned about.
According to Chinese medicine, tumor is the local manifestation of systemic disease, so local treatment should focus on the adjustment of systemic function. “Tumor is also a retention. If it stays but does not leave, tumor is formed. The most common clinical phenomenon is “qi stagnation and blood stasis” or “qi deficiency and blood stasis”, which are the intrinsic causes of tumor diseases. “Qi stagnation and blood stasis” is related to emotion, usually easily angry, sullen and irritable, which is called “cancer personality”; “Qi deficiency and blood stasis” is related to the lack of innate endowment and reduced exercise afterwards. It is related to the external causes such as air pollution, blood stagnation, and blood stagnation. The external causes are related to air pollution, water pollution, excessive pesticide residues in food, fruits and vegetables, housing renovation, unreasonable use of drugs, etc., causing a state of poisoning in the human body, so that the external causes develop through the internal causes. From the above causes, it can appear many results, that is, recurrence and metastasis. Understanding this “cause” and “effect” relationship is of great significance to the treatment and prevention of tumor recurrence and metastasis. At the early stage of the disease, the tumor is large and serious, so there is no time to lose. If surgery is needed, surgery must be resolutely carried out, radiotherapy and chemotherapy must be carried out, and do not hesitate. Modern medicine has also proved that chemotherapy only kills tumor cells logarithmically, and even good chemotherapy drugs cannot achieve the effect of eradicating the root of the disease, even after complete remission after treatment, there will still be a certain number of tumor cells in the body, and these tumor cells can only be completely removed by the body’s own immunity. Some quick-acting drugs such as hormones damage the body’s precious immunity to get temporary improvement and symptom relief, which will recur after stopping the drugs, so it is not worth the loss. Chinese medicine is to improve the immunity of the human body to reduce symptoms and improve the number, the effect is real, the condition will rarely relapse after improvement, this is the main reason why Chinese medicine can hold the position. This is the main reason why TCM is able to hold its position. Nowadays, the nationally accepted treatment for cancer is a combination of Western medicine, Chinese medicine, and Chinese and Western medicine, and on this premise, we put forward the principle of “Western medicine for emergency, Chinese medicine for slow, and combination of Chinese and Western medicine”, and summed up “four treatments”, “four preventions”, and “patient as a patient”. We have refined and summarized specific methods such as “four treatments”, “four preventions”, and “patient’s schedule” to standardize and systematize the prevention and treatment of tumors. In general, we emphasize the use of preventive measures in the treatment, and focus on the overall improvement of systemic functions in the local treatment, and only through the combination of prevention and treatment, we can have the hope of complete recovery.
Whether it is a hematological disease or a tumor, the diagnosis of these diseases is made in a larger hospital, and once the diagnosis is confirmed, timely surgery and radiotherapy are given, which we believe is right. For this reason, we have proposed the principle of “treating the symptoms in an emergency and focusing on the West”. In the case of leukemia, once the disease is in remission, we believe that the duration of chemotherapy can be extended appropriately, and the main treatment is Chinese medicine. We believe that as long as the blood and marrow images are good and the patient feels good, the duration of chemotherapy can be extended at the appropriate time. The specific approach is to have the patient’s blood tested weekly, paying special attention to the presence of infantile cells, as well as observing the ratio of neutrophils to lymphocytes and whether the white blood cells and platelets are normal. If there are infantile cells in the blood picture, it should be noticed, but do not be alarmed. It depends on the number, some patients have less than 10%, but after we increase the dose of Chinese medicine, they are back to normal again. It is especially emphasized here that the normalcy that appears after the adjustment of Chinese medicine lays the foundation for curing the disease in the future. This is because Chinese medicine is considered from various aspects such as expelling the evil and adjusting the constitution. If the infantile cells in the blood picture are higher than 10%, the patient is advised to have a bone aspiration to understand the marrow picture in order to control the progression of the disease with chemotherapy in time. If the ratio of neutrophil to lymph is inverted, it is mostly a cold and fever. Such a situation tends to make the disease relapse, so proper situational guidance is crucial. If there is a bipolar progression of leukocytes and platelets in the blood picture, i.e. the higher the leukocytes, the lower the platelets, it indicates the possibility of relapse. In general, once the disease is stable, Chinese medicine treatment can be given priority, and the principle of “slow is the cure, and Chinese is the mainstay” is proposed for this purpose. It is generally believed that Chinese medicine has a supportive role, but ignores the therapeutic role. Through our clinical practice, Chinese medicine has not only auxiliary but also curative effects. Specifically, in the treatment, we should not abolish medicine and keep medicine, that is, we should select prescriptions and use medicine under the guidance of the theory of Chinese medicine, and at the same time combine the research results of modern medicine on Chinese medicine, so as to improve the therapeutic effect. To sum up the above content, it is summarized in sixteen words, namely, “treat the symptoms in an urgent manner, with Western medicine as the mainstay, and treat the root cause in a slow manner, with Chinese medicine as the mainstay”.
Four treatment food therapy, food therapy refers to what to eat, from the clinical observation of this disease is mostly suffering from heat poison Yong Sheng, Qi and Yin two deficiency and appear fever bleeding, irritable heart, mouth and tongue sores, hands and feet heart heat, sweating and weakness and other symptoms. Therefore, we basically avoid using warm tonic in our prescriptions; instead, we use cooling and detoxifying drugs. Then, in the diet, we should try not to use hot foods such as mutton, cigarettes, alcohol, chili, etc., but more fresh fruits and vegetables, soy products, eggs, lean pork, etc. In short, the main focus is on vegetarian, to keep the two bowel movements smooth, in order to facilitate the excretion of toxins.
To summarize a general direction, avoid smoking, alcohol, spicy, less fried fatty, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. There are special cases in this, some patients have suggested that I can’t eat anything without chili. We believe that the issue of avoiding food is only a general direction. In addition, there is a theory in Chinese medicine that joy is a tonic, especially in the case of a patient in critical condition, no appetite, poor diet, in this case the appropriate relaxation of the avoidance of food, do not avoid everything, do not look at this problem very mechanically.
Heart treatment, relaxed and relaxed mood, because after the disease is very anxious and anxious, from the Chinese medicine point of view, affect the operation of qi and blood. From the medical point of view, it is recommended to study Buddhism to purify the mind and cooperate with the treatment, starting with copying the Heart Sutra, listening to the sutra and reading the sutra.
From a therapeutic point of view, after suffering from this disease, the spirit of struggle for work and career should be removed and replaced by cultivation of the body and mind. In the strategy to be contempt, in the tactics should pay attention to, that is to say, in the long run to consider the spirit of relaxation, maintain an optimistic attitude, as if the water in the river, smooth flow, so that the blood in the process of running to maintain a steady state, with drugs, to static brake, so that the blood image stable. Never be impatient or pessimistic and disappointed, the blood is like the water in the river stirring up waves and malfunction.
Physical therapy.
Physical therapy means the method of exercise, summarized two sets of methods more suitable for a wide range of patients. One set is Guo Lin Qigong, calling it a moving gong. Because it has to move, this method of exercise is suitable for patients with stable conditions and requires persistent exercise. The second set advocates the true qi running method created by Prof. Li Shaobo of Gansu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, because the true qi running method can lie, sit or stand during the exercise, so it is stationary and is called static gong. These two methods can choose one. In the choice of exercise, in addition to the exercise itself to the body, or a kind of emotional and mental transfer. Think about it, when you are ill, your mind is burdened with nothing to do every day, always thinking about your illness, illness, illness, and always thinking in such a narrow way. We suggest the patient to arrange the program, half an hour to a small advance in the morning and one in the afternoon, so that he has something to do every day, which is much more fulfilling, and this is a transfer of emotion and will. Turn his mind to other places, which in itself is a kind of relaxation. We can try, we normal people in a very stressful time at work, to a quiet place, closed eyes, meditation for 10 minutes, you can achieve a very comfortable feeling.
I will talk about the four precautions, which are also of great concern to us. Some patients come to us and say how our disease does not recur, how to cure, how long it takes to cure, how sure they are? This raises very sensitive questions for us. I think whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, once you say how sure, in the current situation is very difficult to answer, but through a lot of work with, to improve the effectiveness of the prevention of relapse will have a very good effect.
The first point is to prevent exertion. Patients with the disease have huge economic expenses and heavy family burdens, so they are eager to work after the disease is stabilized in the hope of reducing the pressure on the family. But at this time, the patient is in the initial recovery period, the body has not yet fully recovered, once tired, physical and mental exhaustion, the positive energy decreases, the ability to resist disease is weakened, the disease evil will take advantage of the weakness and come back. Not only physical exertion, but also mental exertion.
The second point to prevent colds, colds are the most common factors that lead to the recurrence of leukemia, therefore, in daily life must pay attention to prevention. Pay attention to weather changes, increase and decrease clothing in a timely manner, and avoid rain. Some people have this reference, saying that if the cold is prevented, it is equal to half of the leukemia is cured. This is a bit too much, but it also shows that colds are very important in the treatment of leukemia. A cold is likely to cause fever and changes in the blood picture and the activity of infantile cells. According to Chinese medicine, a cold is an illness caused by an external disease that attacks the body and causes abnormalities in the function of the internal organs. There are many types of colds such as wind-cold, wind-heat, summer-damp and deficiency colds. As leukemia patients themselves are weak, low resistance to disease, the most vulnerable to external attack, once the evil offended the body, it is easy to take advantage of the weakness into the induced internal heat poisoning, resulting in the recurrence of poisonous evil and relapse of the disease; once induced, more lingering difficult to heal.
1, wind-cold cold: mainly manifested as fear of cold, fever light, headache, nasal congestion or runny nose, mouth is not thirsty, thin white tongue coating, tight or floating tight pulse and other symptoms. In the north, especially in winter, if you catch a cold outside, if the symptoms are not very heavy, take 3 grams of ginger, wash and chop it, put it in a tea cup, brew 200-300 ml of boiling water, cover and soak for 10 minutes, then put in 15 grams of brown sugar and stir well, drink it while it is hot. When you feel your body sweat slightly, the cold in your body will be dispersed and your cold symptoms will be improved. If you don’t have ginger, you can also take a 3-inch decoction of white onion with water to achieve this effect. This type of cold can be taken with Tong Xuan Li Lung Pills, doubling the dosage according to the instructions, and drinking more boiled water, then cover with a quilt and sweat slightly, so that the wind and cold evils felt by the body will be dispersed from the muscle surface couples.
2, wind-heat cold: this kind of cold is rare in winter, but more in spring, should also pay attention to the identification of medicine. The main manifestation of this kind of cold is heavy fever, light fear of cold, nasal congestion, sneezing, etc., of which sore throat is the main point of diagnosis. Small experimental formula: 30 grams of silver flower, 10 grams of peppermint, 60 grams of fresh rutabaga. First, add silver flower and rutabaga to 500 ml of water, boil for 15 minutes, then boil mint for 3 minutes, strain and add sugar, take warm, 3 to 4 times a day. This type of cold can be taken with silver forsythia pills, doubling the dosage, which can pungently cool the surface, promote the lung and clear heat, with reliable efficacy. If the patient’s body temperature is around 39℃～40℃, he can take “Qingkailing Oral Liquid”; if the fever does not subside, he can take “Zixue San”, and the dosage should follow the doctor’s instruction. If the patient’s body temperature is around 38℃～39℃, you can take “Antelope horn powder” under the guidance of doctor, and reduce the dosage for children. If the patient’s body temperature is around 37℃～38℃, and there is sore throat and yellow nasal discharge, you should take “West antelope antidote pill” and “Antelope antidote tablet”. If the patient’s temperature is around 37℃～38℃ and there is sore throat and yellow nose, it is recommended to take “Xicailiao Detoxification Pills”, “Antelope Relief Tablets”, “Cold and Flu Clear Fever Punch”, “Banlangen Punch”. If there is yellow runny nose, yellow phlegm and cough, it is advisable to take “Oral Liquid for Clearing Heat and Relieving Poison”. If you have cough with phlegm, you should take “Fresh Bamboo Li Oral Liquid”.
3, summer damp cold: this type of cold mostly occurs in the summer, the patient manifested as chills, fever, light and tasteless mouth, headache, head swelling, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. Treatment should be based on clearing summer heat, dispelling dampness and relieving the surface. Patients can use Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Pills and other drugs to treat.
4, “deficiency cold” that is, the body deficiency cold: this type of cold should be worthy of in-depth study, because the individual differences in the human body, some of the gas deficiency, some of the Yin deficiency, some of the Yang deficiency, some of the Yin and Yang deficiency, the treatment is divided into the corresponding complementary gas, nourishing Yin, help Yang, Yin and Yang double tonic.
The third point of anger, emotional instability. Anger and depression will make the qi and blood in the body run out of order, the circulation is not smooth, resulting in internal organs dysfunction, the disease relapse. We also have such patients in the clinic, after the anger caused disorders of qi and blood function, and finally the disease relapsed.
The fourth point is overeating. Some patients are carefree in terms of diet and believe that it is more beneficial for recovery to be able to eat and drink. Therefore, large fish and meat, overeating, appearing to overload the spleen and stomach function, some patients should be treated well, often participate in some parties, birthday parties, classmates, overeating, and finally spleen and stomach dysfunction, some caused obvious diarrhea dehydration, spleen and stomach dysfunction, causing the body fluid consumption, although it seems to be a spleen and stomach disease, can actually trigger the relapse of leukemia.
Relaxation treatment in the clinic often encountered some patients in treatment to achieve complete remission, think that everything is fine, thus relaxing the treatment, no longer on time medication, review, and contact with the doctor also reduced or even no longer contact, until the relapse is often too late to regret. Appropriate relaxation from the mind and not too nervous pessimism is conducive to the recovery of the disease, but this relaxation is not relaxed treatment. Even if you achieve complete remission, you should actively contact your doctor, actively go to the hospital for review and take medication on time.
The way to maintain good health is to “go to bed early and get up early, get up and live regularly”, which advocates that people should have a regular life, which is good for health. In today’s society, the world is full of flowers, lights, and nightlife, and many young patients indulge in them, forgetting to rest and living irregularly. Excessive comfort Some patients in remission seldom go out and reduce their activities in order to maintain their bodies. Although the test index is normal, the immune function of the body is not fully restored, which is very common in the clinic. In addition to drug treatment, appropriate exercise has a significant role in promoting the recovery of the body’s immune function and is one of the important measures to prevent relapse towards eventual recovery.
In addition to the above factors, there are other factors that are still unclear. Therefore, the recovery of leukemia is related to multiple factors. The importance of medication is undeniable, but care is also crucial. It should be done with the concerted efforts of the doctor, the patient and the family, in close cooperation, to lay a good foundation for recovery Patient schedule.
Morning.
Get up, wash up and exercise appropriately (walk or practice taijiquan or qigong); eat, take medication after 20 minutes; go to the park and practice Guo Lin qigong or taijiquan, etc.; go home, take a break and do simple housework, prepare to eat dinner for dinner, clean up the dishes after dinner, do a small amount of activity.
In the afternoon after taking medication get up from lunch break, recite the sutra, go out and exercise go home, use the rest time to read and write calligraphy.
Evening.
Eat, a little activity after meals; take medication and watch TV for a walk or self-care massage; sleep Once a patient said that it is unfortunate to have a tumor or blood disease, but in China it is fortunate again. Because we not only have modern western medicine surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment, but we also have Chinese medicine treatment which has been inherited by our motherland for 5,000 years. In addition to the individualized diagnosis and treatment of patients, we also have our own proprietary Chinese medicine, all of which have certain therapeutic effects.