Glioma belongs to the category of headache and dizziness in traditional Chinese medicine, after surgery, Chinese medicine needs to be used to identify the symptoms, and can be treated with the medicines such as Cleansing Phlegm Soup combined with Wu Ling San, Tianma Hook Teng Drink, Hematopoietic Blood Stasis Soup, Dihuang Drink, Longdian Diarrhea Liver Soup and other medicines.
1. Phlegm-dampness accumulation: manifested as heavy body, tiredness, strong tongue, vomiting, unfavorable speech, headache and dizziness. The treatment needs to remove phlegm and open the orifices (to clear the orifices and clear the mind by removing phlegm), and to promote diuresis and dispel dampness, and may use the combination of Phlegm-cleansing Tang and Wu Ling San with additions and subtractions.
2. Internal movement of liver wind: manifested as headache and dizziness, convulsions and tremors, strong tongue and aphasia, numbness of limbs and irritability. The treatment needs to calm the liver and extinguish the wind, and can use Tianma Hook Teng Drink for treatment.
3. Qi stagnation and blood stasis: manifested as dark color, blurred vision, nausea and vomiting, headache and distension, dry mouth and shortness of breath, and dry stools. The treatment needs to activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, and can use the addition and subtraction of Hematophagus and Blood Stasis Tang.
4. Kidney Yin deficiency: manifested as tinnitus and deafness, five heart-heat (heat in the heart of the hands and feet, and self-consciousness of the heart and chest irritability and stuffiness), dizziness, depression, lumbar and knee soreness and weakness. Treatment needs to tonify the kidney and generate marrow, and can be used to add subtractions of Di Huang Drink.
5. Excessive fire in the liver and gallbladder: manifested as dry mouth and bitterness, dry throat and vomiting, such as spraying and shooting, headache and distension, and unfavorable limbs. The treatment needs to clear the liver and eliminate the fire, and can use gentian diarrhea liver soup plus subtractions.
In addition, Zhen Liver and Wind Extinguishing Soup and Tongjiao and Blood Activating Soup can also be used to take after glioma surgery.
Glioma patients should seek medical treatment in time, follow the doctor’s instructions for examination and treatment, traditional Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicines need to be used under the guidance of a Chinese doctor to identify the evidence, and individuals should not use them blindly, so as not to cause adverse consequences.