When choosing traditional Chinese medicine to treat cancer, you must first understand these misunderstandings

With the changes in people’s lifestyles and living environment, the incidence of cancer is increasing. Traditional Chinese medicine plays an important role in tumor treatment. However, in the long-term clinical process, we have also found that many patients have many misunderstandings in medication, missing the best treatment opportunities and affecting the treatment effect.

When choosing traditional Chinese medicine to treat cancer, you must first recognize these misunderstandings:

Misunderstanding 1: Treating Chinese medicine as the last straw

In the process of treating tumors, it is best for traditional Chinese medicine to intervene early and participate in the entire process. During tumor surgery, traditional Chinese medicine can improve the body's immunity and promote the body's recovery. At the same time, traditional Chinese medicine treatment can reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and protect the patient from radiotherapy and chemotherapy. During the recovery period, traditional Chinese medicine should also be used continuously for conditioning. However, many patients seek traditional Chinese medicine only when they experience late-stage recurrence and metastasis after multiple treatments with Western medicine and are unable to do anything. At this time, the patient's systemic function has collapsed. Although traditional Chinese medicine can relieve pain to a certain extent, the best treatment opportunity has been lost. Therefore, if the disease develops to the final stage and then uses traditional Chinese medicine as the "last life-saving grass", it will not have a good effect. Only early treatment with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine can regulate the patient's immune function, maintain stable body function, and solve problems such as damage and insufficient immunity caused by patients during surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.

Misunderstanding 2: Prescriptions should be large, comprehensive, and powerful

There was once a lung cancer patient who developed pleural effusion after catching a cold, so he took Chinese medicine on his own initiative. As a result, he vomited and had diarrhea, and his spleen and stomach function was completely disordered. He took 3 months of stomach-nourishing Chinese medicine to recover. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the kidneys are the foundation of innateness, and the spleen and stomach are the foundation of acquired diseases. However, "when stomach qi is defeated, hundreds of medicines will be difficult to cure." Nowadays, when treating tumors, many Chinese medicine practitioners blindly emphasize generosity, comprehensive prescriptions, and emphasis on prescriptions, ignoring the spleen and stomach of the patients. Little do they know that this is not only unhelpful to the patients, but may also cause harm to the patients. Therefore, when treating tumors with traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen and stomach must first be considered.

Misunderstanding 3: “Fighting poison with poison” to treat tumors

Some patients prefer the treatment method of "fighting poison with poison" and superstitious folk remedies such as scorpions, centipedes, and toads, which are highly toxic, and use a large amount of poisons to fight cancer. As a result, not only does the treatment not work, but the condition worsens, and even life-threatening. There was once a cancer patient whose condition became stable after treatment. Later, he was recommended by others to use folk remedies. The folk remedies contained a lot of poisons. After taking the medicine for a month, the patient's face turned yellow. When he went to the hospital for examination, it was found that his jaundice index was very high, his liver and kidney functions were severely damaged, and he also developed a large amount of pleural effusion, which worsened the disease. It can be seen from this that the approach of "fighting poison with poison" is not advisable. The traditional Chinese medicine treatment method that blindly focuses on "attack" is not suitable for tumor treatment, but will damage the patient's integrity.

Misunderstanding 4: Using ginseng, snow lotus and other tonics to fight cancer

When it comes to “strengthening and strengthening the body”, many people simply think of “taking tonics”. Patients with good financial conditions will choose to eat precious medicinal materials such as ginseng, snow lotus, and cordyceps to replenish their bodies, thinking that the more precious they are, the better the effect will be. As everyone knows, this concept is also wrong. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment pays attention to nature and flavor and "syndrome differentiation and treatment", and it is matched according to each person's different condition and constitution. Blindly using expensive drugs to supplement may worsen the condition of patients with confirmed tumors such as congestion, polyps, masses, etc., and "leave behind closed doors". The more supplements you take, the worse the consequences will be. For example, ginseng is warm in nature, and wild ginseng is a hot product. Radiation therapy patients already have heat poison, and taking supplements at this time is just adding fuel to the fire and aggravating the condition.

Misunderstanding 5: Traditional Chinese medicine feet wear Western medicine shoes

"The effectiveness of tumor treatment depends on the degree of tumor shrinkage" - many people use this to evaluate the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Some people even give up on traditional Chinese medicine treatment because the tumor mass shrinkage or elimination is not as good as western medicine treatment. This understanding is also wrong. Medical treatment is based on the principle of doing no harm. The focus of traditional Chinese and Western medicine is different. Traditional Chinese medicine pays more attention to improving the patient's quality of life and prolonging survival. The evaluation criteria for the efficacy of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in treating tumors should not be the same. Therefore, cancer patients and their families should not only judge the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine treatment based on whether the mass shrinks, but should consider the patient's overall physical condition.

Misunderstanding 6: Taboo when taking traditional Chinese medicine

"Taboo foods when taking traditional Chinese medicine" is probably the consensus of many cancer patients, but in fact, there is no need to excessively avoid foods during cancer treatment. On the contrary, because tumors are consumptive diseases, patients should pay more attention to supplementing foods rich in high-quality protein, vitamins and other nutrients, such as beef and mutton, milk, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables, etc. Of course, there should be appropriate taboos for foods that are clearly related to cancer. For example, breast cancer patients should eat less fatty meat and other high-fat foods; gastric cancer patients should eat less salt; esophageal cancer patients should eat less sauerkraut, etc.