TCM's understanding of colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive system. It is currently generally believed that the onset of colorectal cancer is related to the combined effects of multiple factors such as genetics, environment, and diet, which lead to atypical hyperplasia and carcinoma of the intestinal mucosal epithelium, seriously affecting the patient's quality of life, with a high mortality rate and poor prognosis.

There is no term for colon cancer in traditional Chinese medicine. Current research has found that colon cancer is similar to disease descriptions in traditional Chinese medicine such as "syndrome", "accumulation", "visceral poison", "intestinal polyps", and "anal hemorrhoids".

TCM's knowledge of colorectal cancer can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago, when its etiology and pathogenesis were described in detail. Since then, successive medical schools have further explored and supplemented the understanding and treatment of this disease from different perspectives. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, TCM had a fairly comprehensive understanding of this disease. Combining the discussions of various doctors, it is unanimously believed that the cause of this disease is caused by factors such as improper diet, worry and depression, long-term diarrhea and dysentery, fatigue and physical weakness, exposure to external pathogens, and accumulation of dampness and toxicity. These factors damage the spleen and stomach, and the essence of water and grain cannot be transported and transformed, and the distribution is not good, resulting in the internal generation of dampness and turbidity.

According to Mongolian medical theory, colorectal cancer occurs because the bad blood flow produced by the essence that has not been transformed by the liver is retained in a weak part of the intestine and then mixed with the Hei. Furthermore, the Hei and blood heat cause damage to the intestine. It is a polymeric chronic disease.

Tips- Heyi is a term used in Mongolian medical theory. Mongolian medicine uses the relationship between the three roots of "Heyi", "Xila" and "Bada Gan" to explain the physiological and pathological phenomena of the human body. The so-called "Heyi" refers to the power of various physiological functions.