What are the special treatments of traditional Chinese medicine for lung cancer? What are the non-drug treatments for lung cancer pain?

What are the special treatments of lung cancer in traditional Chinese medicine?

Lung cancer is a highly prevalent malignant tumor of the respiratory tract. Due to various bad living habits such as long-term smoking and alcoholism, the incidence of lung cancer in my country has continued to rise in recent years. There are various treatments for lung cancer. Among them, Chinese medicine, as a traditional treatment, has the advantages of being natural, free of side effects, safe and reliable. Lung cancer patients can choose appropriate Chinese medicine treatments.

Chinese herbal tea recipes

Chinese medicine: 200 grams of Panax notoginseng, 100 grams of dried tangerine peel, 100 grams of Stemona japonica, 100 grams of Cyperus rotundus, 100 grams of Fritillaria thunbergii, 100 grams of costus root, and 100 grams of licorice.

Preparation: Grind the above medicines into coarse powder, boil them in water and drink them as tea throughout the day. The daily dose varies from patient to patient.

Efficacy: Regulates Qi and eliminates abdominal distension, relieves cough and asthma.

Oral Chinese medicine prescription

Chinese medicine: 200 grams of millet, 200 grams of Cyperus rotundus, 60 grams of peach kernel, 50 grams of verbena, 90 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum, and 100 grams of licorice.

Preparation: Make the above medicines into powder or pills and take 3 to 5 times a day with warm water or Chinese herbal tea.

Efficacy: It can promote blood circulation and resolve stagnation, regulate qi and relieve cough. It can improve symptoms such as cough, sputum, and chest tightness in patients with lung cancer.

Acupuncture therapy

Acupoints: focus on Tiantu, Yutang, Zhongting, Shangpi, Zhongwan, Xiawan, Shenque, Dazhui, Fengmen, Feishu, Xinshu, Geshu, Ganshu, Pishu, Feishu, Shenshu and other acupoints.

Operation: Professional doctors select acupoints appropriately according to the patient's specific condition, and use the method of equal supplementation and equal drainage to perform lifting, insertion and twisting, and the needles can be left in for 20 minutes.

Efficacy: Nourish lung qi and improve adverse respiratory symptoms.

What are the non-drug treatments for lung cancer pain?

Non-drug treatments for lung cancer pain include the following:

(1) Psychological suggestion therapy

This method is mainly to enhance the patient's confidence in overcoming the disease. It can be combined with various lung cancer treatment methods to suggest to patients how to adjust themselves, tell them that they will definitely be able to overcome the disease if they cooperate with the treatment, and make them more courageous in life. Let the patient eat three meals a day and do necessary rehabilitation training to fully mobilize their own anti-tumor ability, so as to achieve the purpose of pain relief.

(2) Relaxation and pain relief

Relaxation of the whole body can produce a sense of lightness, and muscle relaxation can block pain reactions. Ask the patient to close his eyes, sigh, yawn, and then bend his hips and knees to lie flat, relax his abdominal muscles and back muscles, and do abdominal breathing slowly. You can also ask the patient to close his eyes in a quiet environment and take deep and slow inhalations and exhalations to allow fresh air to enter the lungs, thereby achieving the purpose of pain relief.

(3) Physical analgesia

The purpose of pain relief can be achieved by stimulating the skin around the painful area or the corresponding healthy side. The stimulation method can be massage, applying cooling analgesics, etc., or temperature stimulation, or placing a hot water bottle on a wet towel for local hot compress, each time for 20 minutes, which can achieve a certain pain relief effect.

(4) Transfer analgesia

Let the patient sit in a comfortable chair, close his eyes, and think about interesting things in his childhood, or think about anything he wants to think about, for 15 minutes each time, usually 2 hours after eating, and then sit quietly for 2 minutes with eyes closed. You can also choose some fast-paced music according to the patient's hobbies, and let the patient enjoy it while clapping and clapping to the rhythm. You can also let the patient read some jokes, humorous novels, or tell a crosstalk for fun, all of which can achieve the purpose of diverting pain.