Clinically, Chinese medicine often divides lung cancer into five types: internal heat due to yin deficiency, deficiency of both qi and yin, deficiency of both lung and spleen, deficiency of both yin and yang, and qi stagnation and blood stasis. Among them, yin deficiency with internal heat and deficiency of both qi and yin are more common.
1. Yin deficiency with internal heat type: cough without phlegm, shortness of breath, dry mouth, upset, insomnia, night sweats, thready pulse, red or crimson tongue, thin coating or shedding.
Treatment: nourishing yin and clearing heat, detoxifying and fighting cancer.
Commonly used drugs: Radix Adenophorae, Radix Glehniae, Radix Asparagi, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Rehmanniae, Dendrobium, Radix Scrophulariae, Carapax Trionycis, Herba Scutellariae Barbatae, Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Radix Peucedani, Semen Persicae, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae, Fructus Trichosanthis, etc.
2. Deficiency of both qi and yin: cough, scanty phlegm, blood in phlegm, shortness of breath, listlessness, pallor, bad wind, spontaneous sweating or night sweats, dry mouth, short pulse, red tongue and thin white fur.
Treatment: benefiting qi and nourishing yin, moistening lung and resolving phlegm.
Commonly used drugs: Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Pseudostellariae, Radix Glehniae, Radix Asparagi, Radix Ophiopogonis, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis, Carapax Trionycis, Cordyceps, lotus root charcoal, Notoginseng Radix, Rhizoma Bletillae, Stemonae Radix, Lily, etc.
On the basis of syndrome differentiation and disease differentiation, according to the clinical symptoms, pulse and tongue manifestations of patients, different prescriptions are used to treat lung cancer.