Methods of treating colorectal cancer with traditional Chinese medicine

This disease belongs to the categories of "visceral poison", "intestinal cyst", "anal hemorrhoids", "syndrome masses", and "dysentery" in clinical Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that worry and depression, disharmony of the spleen and stomach, endogenous dampness and turbidity, depression and heat; or improper diet, eating unclean food by mistake, damaging the spleen and stomach, and causing dampness and heat, can all lead to dampness and heat, soaking the intestines, poor circulation of intestinal qi and blood, and evaporation over time to become heat toxins, and corruption of blood and flesh, so there is abdominal pain and diarrhea, mucus, pus and blood in the stool or blood in the stool, dampness, toxins, phlegm, stasis, condensation into lumps, the lumps are getting bigger and bigger, the adventitious stenosis, difficulty in defecation, prolonged illness, weak spleen and stomach, lack of biochemical sources, qi and blood deficiency, or from the spleen and kidney, there can also be changes such as spleen and kidney yang deficiency, mixed deficiency and excess, and even yin and yang separation. China Health Network provides the following effective Chinese medicine secret recipes for reference:

(1) Haishe Ruanjian Decoction: It has the functions of regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, clearing away heat and detoxifying, softening and relieving symptoms. It is mainly used to treat rectal cancer.

The main pathogenesis of rectal cancer is qi stagnation and blood stasis, phlegm and toxicity, so this prescription uses a large number of blood stasis-removing and hard-hard-softening drugs such as Prunella Vulgaris and Salvia Miltiorrhiza to eliminate stagnation, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, detoxify and relieve pain, clear away heat and detoxify, making the whole prescription a hard-hard-softening, detoxifying and blood stasis-removing agent, thus achieving a good effect in the treatment of rectal cancer. This prescription treated 460 patients with rectal cancer, 210 of whom survived for more than 1 year, and 40 survived for more than 3 years.

(2) Huangbai Jiedu Decoction: It replenishes Qi and blood, clears away heat and detoxifies. It is mainly used to treat colorectal cancer.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that surgery damages the vital energy, and chemotherapy uses poison to fight poison, which not only consumes qi and damages yin, but also increases heat and toxicity. This prescription uses astragalus, white safflower, and agrimony to replenish qi and blood, clear away heat and detoxify, and cool blood and stop bleeding. It combines the functions of strengthening the body and eliminating evil in one prescription, so 92 patients who received chemotherapy after colorectal cancer surgery were treated with this prescription and achieved satisfactory results.