How does traditional Chinese medicine treat lung cancer? Three methods of treating lung cancer based on syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine

Nowadays, people are prone to lung cancer due to heavy smoking. As we all know, lung cancer is a malignant disease that has a great impact on the patient's health. Patients need to receive timely treatment to have hope of getting rid of the troubles of lung cancer. Clinically, for patients with early lung cancer, traditional Chinese medicine can be considered for treatment.

1. The principle of examining evidence and seeking the cause

TCM believes that the pathological mechanism of each lung cancer patient is different, and the manifestations of visceral qi and blood imbalance in different stages of the disease are also different, so it is necessary to understand the pathogenesis and cause of the disease through syndrome differentiation, that is, to distinguish the patient's yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, deficiency and excess properties, and then make a syndrome differentiation of the patient's syndrome type after comprehensive analysis based on the cause and pathogenesis of lung cancer and the manifestations of the patient's qi and blood, visceral organs, and meridians imbalance. This is what TCM calls "seeking the root of the disease to cure it."

2. The principle of combining syndrome differentiation with disease differentiation

According to modern medical research, each tumor disease has its biological characteristics, roughly the same laws of occurrence and development, common pathophysiology of morphological changes, and common laws of biochemical changes. But everyone has individual differences, such as age, gender, growth environment, physical condition, mental state, tumor location and size, etc. Only after understanding the differentiation of disease and syndrome can the correct prescription be made. The same non-small cell lung cancer can show different TCM syndromes due to individual differences among patients;

Even for the same lung cancer patient, the TCM syndrome differentiation is different at different stages of the disease, or as the disease develops or improves. Therefore, in clinical practice, it is necessary to combine disease differentiation with syndrome differentiation to correctly understand the imbalance in the body, grasp the changes in yin and yang, qi and blood, viscera, and meridian damage, and use the correct prescriptions and medicines for treatment.

3. Principles of treatment to strengthen the body and eliminate pathogens

Strengthening the body's health means using drugs and treatments that support the body's vital energy, combined with nutrition and functional exercise, to strengthen the body, regulate the spirit, and improve the body's ability to resist disease, so as to achieve the goal of defeating the disease and restoring health. This treatment method is mainly suitable for cancer patients with weak vital energy.

Eliminating evil means using anticancer and tumor-eliminating drugs and treatment methods to eliminate pathogenic factors, eliminate and shrink tumors, reduce or eliminate recurrence and metastasis, and achieve the goal of eliminating evil and restoring health. In the development of tumor diseases, health and evil mutually increase and decrease and change constantly. Therefore, in treatment, strengthening health and eliminating evil should be organically combined. According to the patient's condition and clinical manifestations, combined with a variety of modern medical treatment methods, it is possible to focus on eliminating evil, strengthening health, eliminating evil first and then strengthening health, or strengthening health first and then eliminating evil. Reasonable use of drugs can achieve better treatment effects.

It seems that TCM treatment of lung cancer has a certain epoch-making significance for the development of medical technology in today's society. It is hoped that patients with early lung cancer can choose TCM treatment methods for treatment. However, for patients with already serious lung cancer, in order to avoid worsening of the disease, chemotherapy is recommended for treatment.