Treatment methods for advanced rectal cancer

The early symptoms of rectal cancer are not very obvious and it is easy to be misdiagnosed. By the time it is confirmed, it is already in the late stage. Many people have lost their lives due to rectal cancer. The choice of treatment method for late-stage rectal cancer is very critical. Let’s take a look at the introduction below.

For the treatment of advanced rectal cancer, Chinese medicine treatment combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy is often used clinically to control advanced symptoms and stabilize the condition. Moreover, Chinese medicine treatment for advanced rectal cancer can be applied to the entire treatment process.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rectal cancer mostly belongs to the category of "intestinal cysts" and "intestinal cysts". The causes are mostly improper diet, eating fatty, dry, hot or unclean things, which leads to poor spleen function, damp heat and toxicity, which presses down the large intestine, damages the intestinal network, and toxic evils become carbuncle and gradually develop into cancer. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of late-stage rectal cancer advocates dialectical classification. Clinically, traditional Chinese medicine divides late-stage rectal cancer into three common types: spleen deficiency and dampness toxicity type, blood stasis and toxicity type, and cancer toxicity type, and the treatment methods are also different.

The TCM treatment of advanced rectal cancer mainly focuses on the following pathological differentiation:

1. Treatment of spleen deficiency and dampness toxicity type with traditional Chinese medicine in advanced rectal cancer

Symptoms: sallow complexion, loss of appetite, weight loss, abdominal pain or anal soreness, stool with thick bloody mucus, frequent bowel movements, thin or flat stools, or tenesmus, pale tongue, thin and greasy tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, detoxify and fight cancer.

2. Treatment of late-stage and mid-stage rectal cancer: internal accumulation of toxic stasis

Symptoms: Dull complexion, abdominal distension and pain, pain in a fixed location or radiating downward, a mass can be felt in the abdomen, defecation is difficult, intestinal obstruction or diarrhea with purple and black pus and blood gradually develops, stool becomes thin or flat, purple tongue or with petechiae, thin yellow tongue coating, and stringy or wiry pulse.

Treatment method: Removing blood stasis and attacking accumulation, detoxifying and relieving pain.

3. Cancer toxin flooding type also belongs to the category of TCM treatment for late stage rectal cancer

Symptoms: Weak spirit, pale complexion, emaciation, or cachexia, cold limbs, abdominal distension and pain, or multiple swellings in the abdomen, or soreness and pain in the anus, diarrhea with pus and blood, feeling better after diarrhea, pale or shiny tongue, and weak pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish Qi and Yin, inhibit cancer and detoxify.

Treatment of advanced colorectal cancer with folk remedies:

1. Hawthorn and Panax notoginseng porridge: 20 grams of hawthorn, 5 grams of Panax notoginseng (ground into powder), 60 grams of polished rice, 1 spoon of honey, add appropriate amount of clean water, cook into porridge and take it twice a day.

2. Sea cucumber, black fungus and pork intestine soup: 60 grams of soaked sea cucumber, 15 grams of black fungus (soaked in water), 1 section of pork large intestine about 50 cm (washed and cut into small sections), add water and cook until soft, season and eat.

3. Stewed pig large intestine with Coptis chinensis: 10 grams of costus root, 6 grams of Coptis chinensis, 1 section of pig large intestine about 30 cm (washed), 5 grams of Panax notoginseng powder. Put the costus root, Coptis chinensis powder and Panax notoginseng powder into the pig large intestine, tie the two ends tightly, add water and stew the intestine until it is rotten, remove the medicine, drink the soup and eat the pig large intestine.

4. Pig blood and crucian carp porridge: 200g pig blood, 100g crucian carp, 100g rice. Remove the scales, intestines and gills of the crucian carp, cut into small pieces, and cook porridge with pig blood and rice. Eat 1-2 times a day.

5. Water chestnut, coix seed, Panax notoginseng and lean pork soup: 15 water chestnuts, 20 grams of coix seed, 5 grams of Panax notoginseng, 60 grams of lean pork (chopped), add water and boil until cooked, add appropriate amount of salt and drink.

Advanced rectal cancer often spreads and metastasizes, and the tumor is not single, so surgical treatment is not suitable. Conservative treatment can achieve good results.