With the change of lifestyle and living environment, the incidence of cancer is increasing. Chinese medicine plays an important role in tumor treatment, however, in the long-term clinical process we also found that many patients have many misunderstandings in medication, which miss the best treatment time and affect the treatment effect. Below I summarize several common misconceptions of tumor patients about Chinese medicine for tumor treatment, hoping to draw the attention of patients so as to better use Chinese medicine for treatment. Misconception 1: treating traditional Chinese medicine as “the last life-saving grass” In the process of treating tumor, traditional Chinese medicine is best to intervene early and participate in the whole process. In the process of tumor surgery, traditional Chinese medicine can improve the immune ability of the body and promote the recovery of the body. At the same time, traditional Chinese medicine treatment can reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, enhance its sensitivity and escort radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, many patients seek Chinese medicine only when they have advanced recurrence and metastasis after multiple treatments by Western medicine, when the patient’s systemic functional status has already failed, and although Chinese medicine can alleviate the pain to a certain extent, the best treatment opportunity is also lost. Therefore, if the patient has already reached the last stage of the disease and then seizes Chinese medicine as the “last straw”, it will not be effective. Only by combining Chinese and Western medicine early can we regulate the patient’s immune function, maintain the stability of the body function, and solve the problems of damage and lack of immunity brought about by surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. There was a lung cancer patient who had pleural fluid after catching a cold, so he took it upon himself to go to a so-called “famous Chinese medicine practitioner” to take Chinese medicine, which resulted in vomiting and leaking, almost deflated, and completely disturbed the function of spleen and stomach, which took 3 months to be adjusted by Chinese medicine for stomach. In fact, Chinese medicine says that the kidney is the foundation of the first day, and the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the second day, and “once the stomach is defeated, it is difficult to administer a hundred medicines”. Nowadays, many Chinese medicine practitioners, when treating tumors, emphasize on generous, full and heavy prescriptions and ignore the spleen and stomach of patients, not knowing that this is not beneficial to patients but may also bring harm to them. Therefore, when treating tumors with Chinese medicine, we should first consider taking into account the spleen and stomach. Moreover, not all herbalists have experience in treating cancer, so patients must choose herbalists from regular oncology hospitals with qualifications to carry out Chinese medicine treatment, instead of trusting in some “famous doctors”. Some doctors and patients believe in the treatment method of “attacking poison with poison”, superstitiously believe in scorpions, centipedes, toads and other toxic prescriptions, and use a lot of toxic drugs to fight against cancer, which not only fails to have a therapeutic effect, but also causes As a result, not only can the treatment not be effective, but also the disease is aggravated and even life-threatening. This phenomenon is not uncommon. Once a patient with lung cancer had a stable condition after treatment, but he heard that a prescription could cure his disease, so he went to take his prescription, which turned out to contain a lot of toxic drugs. A month later the patient’s face was yellow and he returned to the hospital for a re-examination, which revealed that his jaundice index was high, his liver and kidney functions were severely impaired, and he also had a large amount of pleural effusion, which led to the deterioration of his disease. With the development of medicine and the use of Chinese medicine in tumor, it has been found that the blindly “attack” based Chinese medicine treatment is not suitable for tumor treatment, but will damage the patient’s vital energy. Instead, it will damage the patient’s vital energy. Chinese medicine treatment should be more “people-oriented”. At present, most of the mainstream Chinese medicine anti-cancer treatments in China recommend the academic view of supporting and cultivating the root, so that patients can achieve the goal of long-term “survival with tumor”. Misconception 4: Using ginseng, snow lotus and other tonic drugs to fight cancer When it comes to “supporting and cultivating the root”, many people will simply think “taking tonic drugs”. Those with good economic condition will choose to take precious herbs such as ginseng, snow lotus and wormwood to supplement their body, thinking that the more precious they eat, the better the effect will be. This concept is also wrong, because Chinese medicine treatment is about the nature and taste and “diagnosis and treatment”, according to the different conditions and constitution of each person to match. The use of expensive drugs may aggravate the condition of patients with actual tumors such as bruises, polyps and masses, which will lead to “closed doors”, and the more you supplement, the worse it will be. In the past, a patient who was treated for nasopharyngeal carcinoma radiotherapy heard from a family relative that ginseng can fight cancer, so he bought expensive wild ginseng from northeast China. Ginseng is warm and hot, and wild ginseng is even more hot and dry. Radiotherapy patients already have heat toxicity, so taking tonic at this time is like pouring oil on the fire and aggravating the disease. Myth 5: Chinese medicine foot wears western medicine shoes “The key to the effectiveness of tumor treatment depends on the degree of lump shrinkage” – many people use this to evaluate the effectiveness of Chinese medicine and western medicine. Some people even give up Chinese medicine treatment because the degree of mass shrinkage or elimination is not as good as western medicine treatment when Chinese medicine treats tumor. This kind of understanding is also wrong. Medical treatment is based on the principle of no harm, and the focus of Chinese and Western medicine is different. Chinese medicine focuses more on improving patients’ quality of life and prolonging survival. The evaluation standard of efficacy of Chinese and western medicine in treating tumors should not be the same. Therefore, tumor patients and their families should not focus only on whether the mass is shrinking to judge the effect of Chinese medicine treatment, but should consider more from the overall health condition of the patient. Therefore, patients and their family members should not only focus on whether the mass is shrinking or not to judge the effect of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, but should consider the overall health condition of patients. Myth 6: Chinese medicine is a taboo. It is the consensus of many tumor patients that “eating Chinese medicine is taboo”, but in fact, it is not necessary to be excessively taboo during tumor treatment. On the contrary, because tumor is a consuming disease, patients should pay more attention to supplement foods rich in high quality protein, vitamins and other nutrients, such as beef and mutton, milk, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables. For example, breast cancer patients should eat less fatty meat and other foods with high fat content; stomach cancer patients should eat less salt; esophageal cancer patients should eat less sauerkraut and so on.