Is it too late to think of TCM when cancer is in the advanced stage? Recommended TCM nursing plan for confirmed lung cancer

Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Program for Lung Cancer

Currently, more and more people are paying attention to nasopharyngeal cancer, a type of cancer that affects the patient's health. Symptoms of nasal congestion appear after the onset of the disease. Moreover, the mortality rate of the disease is particularly high, causing a lot of harm to patients. So what are the relevant health care knowledge about nasopharyngeal cancer? Let's learn about it together.

Lifestyle

People with nasopharyngeal cancer should avoid physical overwork: heavy physical labor, staying up late, excessive physical exercise, etc., which can cause the body's internal environment to become unbalanced, reduce resistance, and promote cancer recurrence or metastasis. During treatment, attention should be paid to local hygiene, gargle several times a day, and perform nasopharyngeal irrigation when necessary. Avoid tooth extraction within one year.

Diet

The diet should be balanced, with more vegetables and fruits, less or no salted fish, pickles, smoked meat, cured meat and other foods containing nitrosamines. Spicy and dry foods and excessive drinking are not suitable. Especially for patients with nasopharyngeal cancer during radiotherapy and chemotherapy, dry mouth and throat, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting are common. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is due to deficiency of qi and yin, and excessive heat and toxicity. Spicy and dry foods should be avoided. The diet should be light, and foods that are easy to digest, nutritious and delicious should be selected.

Eating salted fish frequently may lead to nasopharyngeal cancer

According to scientific research, rotten salted fish is a food that can directly cause cancer, especially nasopharyngeal cancer. Among people aged 15 to 40 in southern China, nasopharyngeal cancer is more common.

Salted fish and nasopharyngeal cancer are actually closely related. Hong Kong biochemists have isolated nitrosamines from salted fish. According to modern scientific research, nitrosamines have been proven to be serious carcinogens. Nitrosamines, a carcinogen in rotten salted fish, are produced before or during the process of salting and drying. If you often eat this kind of rotten salted fish, you are prone to nasopharyngeal cancer and other cancers.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma has become the most serious disease that endangers society and human health, and has brought great pain and trouble to society and mankind. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is actually a malignant tumor of nasopharyngeal mucosal lesions. It is generally caused by mental and emotional changes, bad mood, internal organ damage, insufficient vital energy, inability to adapt to external climate and environmental changes, nasopharyngeal diseases (including residual gland infection in the nasopharynx, mucosal erosion, mucosal ulcers, nasopharyngeal hyperplasia nodules) and other reasons.

This is all the health care knowledge about nasopharyngeal cancer. Nasopharyngeal cancer is a disease that should not be underestimated. It is relatively common in otolaryngology and poses a serious threat to our nasal health. Therefore, when we are diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, we must keep a calm mind and cooperate with the doctor's treatment.

Is it too late to think of traditional Chinese medicine when cancer is in the advanced stage?

"Seeking medical treatment at random" reflects the urgency of patients and their families. Most patients are eager to remove the tumor after discovering it. Surgery is of course the first choice for an immediate solution. As long as it can be removed, they will not hesitate to remove part of the liver or lung; or they can take the method of surgery-chemotherapy-radiotherapy to treat one by one. In short, they try every possible way to remove the tumor as soon as possible. For the vast majority of patients, only when the disease is in the late stage and Western medicine treatment can hardly achieve the ideal effect, do patients and their families think of trying Chinese medicine treatment. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of Chinese medicine treatment of tumors. In tumor treatment, Chinese medicine should be used throughout and participate in the whole process. Don't wait until the late stage of the tumor, when the patient's body and organs have been severely damaged, to seek Chinese medicine treatment. The sooner the tumor is treated with Chinese medicine, the better.

Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy can easily damage your vitality

Surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other treatment methods are all aimed at eliminating tumors or reducing tumor load. Although they can alleviate the condition to a certain extent, the toxic side effects cannot be ignored. Surgery and radiotherapy will damage the body's vitality. Chemotherapy is even more "fighting" and kills both tumor cells and normal cells of the human body. In many cases, even if the tumor is controlled and reduced in the near term, it is difficult to achieve satisfactory long-term efficacy because the treatment itself has greatly damaged the body's resistance (positive energy).

Western medicine radiotherapy, Chinese medicine improvement

Radiation damage is considered by traditional Chinese medicine to be caused by heat toxicity and yin fluid depletion. The application of Chinese medicines that clear away heat and detoxify, nourish yin and promote the production of body fluids, such as American ginseng, raw earth, white flower snake tongue grass, and Scutellaria barbata, can reduce the damage caused by radiotherapy, that is, play a detoxification role; and the addition of Chinese medicines that invigorate the spleen and regulate qi can also enhance the efficacy of radiotherapy, that is, play a sensitizing or synergistic role in radiotherapy. Similarly, Chinese medicine has a significant synergistic and detoxifying effect on chemotherapy, and can significantly prolong survival compared with chemotherapy alone. Taking Chinese medicine during chemotherapy can reduce the adverse reactions of chemotherapy. For example, digestive tract reactions are often treated with drugs that mainly invigorate the spleen and stomach, invigorate qi and strengthen the body; during the interval of chemotherapy, by nourishing the spleen and stomach, the patient's physical condition can be improved, the bone marrow hematopoietic function can be improved, and preparations can be made for the next chemotherapy; taking Chinese medicine after chemotherapy is mainly to improve the long-term efficacy and reduce recurrence and metastasis.

Combination of Chinese and Western Medicine

For cancer patients who are not suitable for surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy, Chinese medicine is used as the main treatment method. Its purpose is to control the tumor as much as possible, while improving symptoms and improving the quality of life. For some terminal cancer patients, the main purpose of using Chinese medicine is to relieve symptoms. In addition, Chinese medicine can also be combined with immunotherapy. Many Chinese medicines themselves have the function of improving immunity. When used in combination with immune preparations, it can significantly improve the efficacy.