Before and after cancer surgery, Chinese medicine can strengthen the foundation, enhance immunity and effectively help patients recover. Wang Zhixing, a Chinese medicine practitioner in Renai Hospital of Northern United Hospital, pointed out that cancer treatment should be a combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine, in which Chinese medicine should strengthen the foundation and enhance physical strength before operation; Postoperative complications such as gastrointestinal problems and low immunity can also be alleviated, and the quality of life can be improved. Accordingly, the treatment strategy of Chinese medicine for cancer is based on clinical staging and syndrome differentiation, and different prescriptions are prescribed according to patients' physique, which are divided into four principles.
Four principles of TCM cancer treatment strategy conditioning
Traditional Chinese medicine treatment before surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy is mainly to improve patients' resistance, inhibit tumors, strengthen the foundation and cultivate the yuan, and create good conditions for surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
In the process of surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, combined with Chinese medicine treatment, help patients to enhance their physical strength and overcome gastrointestinal problems (nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, indigestion, dry mouth, diarrhea, constipation, etc.). ) and low immunity (listlessness, weakness, susceptibility to colds, leukopenia, hair loss, etc. ) caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and relieve pain and anxiety, insomnia, panic and other emotions during treatment.
After surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and discharge, Chinese medicine conditioning can increase patients' resistance, improve their physique, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate pathogens, and continuously inhibit the regeneration of cancer cells in the body.
For patients who can't undergo surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Chinese medicine treatment is helpful to inhibit the growth of tumor cells, relieve various discomforts caused by tumors, improve the quality of life, prolong the survival time and prolong the survival with diseases.
For example, Dr. Wang Zhixing said that after receiving the fifth chemotherapy and targeted treatment, a patient with stage III colorectal cancer suffered from diarrhea 10 times a day, loss of appetite, general weakness and inability to walk. According to TCM syndrome differentiation, he has a weak temper and insufficient sources of qi and blood, which leads to fatigue, thus conditioning his spleen and stomach and helping patients solve problems such as diarrhea and loss of appetite.
In addition, after oral targeted drug therapy, cancer outpatients often have symptoms such as bad mood, anxiety, depression, and difficulty sleeping. Through the continuous outpatient diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, the prescription of relieving depression and regulating qi can reduce the side effects of oral targeted drugs, on the other hand, it can alleviate the depression of patients and improve sleep disorders.
Dr. Wang Zhixing added that cancer treatment can be said to be a long and arduous road. Basically, it is very important for Chinese medicine to intervene in cancer treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine must have a good background in western medicine and understand the course of treatment and the nature of various radiotherapy and chemotherapy in order to adjust appropriately according to the patient's condition. It is suggested that patients can seek outpatient consultation of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine.