How to treat small cell lung cancer with TCM

How does Traditional Chinese Medicine treat small cell lung cancer?

1. It can also reduce the side effects of chemotherapy, so TCM can be used in conjunction with the treatment of small cell lung cancer, but it is not recommended to simply use TCM to treat small cell lung cancer. The use of TCM to treat small cell lung cancer can be divided into several main types of evidence under the syndrome differentiation treatment of experienced TCM: Qi-yin, phlegm-heat in the lungs, lung-kidney qi deficiency, and lung-spleen qi deficiency. Different drugs can be selected for treatment of each different type of evidence.

2. For the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of small cell lung cancer, syndrome differentiation treatment is carried out first. If the patient coughs up sputum, some cough and sputum drug treatment can be carried out for these patients. Commonly used ones are two kinds of Chen decoctions and three kinds of Qin decoctions with additions and subtractions, such as tangerine peel, pinellia, poria, mulberry, radish, and mulberry.

3. Traditional Chinese medicine will also adopt disease differentiation treatment methods to treat lung cancer. Common Chinese medicines such as ginseng, asparagus root, snake tongue grass, half lotus, and white peony have certain therapeutic effects on any type of lung cancer.

The best treatment options for advanced lung cancer:

There are many treatments for advanced lung cancer, such as intravenous chemotherapy, arterial chemotherapy, radiotherapy, argon-helium knife cryoablation, radioactive particle therapy, microwave knife ablation, traditional Chinese medicine and targeted drug therapy.

Lung adenocarcinoma belongs to the category of non-small cell lung cancer, and the main treatments include: surgery, radiotherapy, systemic therapy, chemotherapy, molecular targeted therapy, etc.

Generally speaking, stage 3B or 4 lung cancer is called advanced lung cancer.