Esophageal cancer and pancreatic cancer belong to the category of “choking and diaphragm” in Chinese medicine.
Familiarity with early symptoms is important for early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment. Due to esophageal or cardia stenosis, it is difficult to pass food and drink, resulting in “erratic” or “belching”, and if the patient is allowed to eat a small amount of food, it can be seen that this symptom is different from both belching of stomach gas and diaphragm spasm. When the stenosis is reduced, the symptoms are also lightened accordingly.
For the problem of spitting mucus froth, it used to be considered as “spleen deficiency, phlegm and dampness”, but in practice it was proved that it was mainly related to esophageal or cardia obstruction. Therefore, the treatment of “erratic”, “belching” and mucous froth should focus on shrinking the tumor or making the cancer tumor necrotic and fall off.
In addition, pancreatic cancer presents later and to a lesser extent than esophageal cancer with dysphagia.
For treatment, 60-120g of Dongling Cao, 30-60g of Shijiazhuang, 30g of Shidanwei, 30-60g of Vine’s Pear root, 30-60g of White Flowering Serpent’s Tongue and Tongue, 60-90g of Half Branch Lotus are commonly used to fight against cancer, and Astragalus, Radix Codonopsis and Rhizoma Atractylodis are added as appropriate to support positive.
Those eligible for chemotherapy were added with chemotherapy, and Chinese herbs were used to prevent and alleviate chemotherapy reactions. Continue to use Chinese herbal medicine in the interval of chemotherapy to support and fight against cancer without interruption.
It is more effective for early stage patients and less effective for middle and late stage patients, but it can relieve symptoms, prolong life span and improve survival quality. The efficacy is better for those who have normal blood sedimentation or change from fast to slow during the treatment period, while the efficacy is mostly poor for those who change from slow to fast.
For those who have severe choking, or even dripping difficulty, and whose X-ray examination is of myxomatous (xùn) umbrella type or medullary type, use freshly pounded Semen, 2g each time, make a mass or put it in a capsule, put it on the root of the tongue and swallow it three times a day, most of them have the effect of reducing obstruction. However, it is not suitable for those with obvious pain in the cardia of the esophagus, or those with ulcerated type on X-ray, and it is not effective for the constricted type.