What are the traditional Chinese medicine formulas for treating pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is the most lethal malignant tumor in clinical practice. The cure rate of this disease is extremely low, the malignancy is high, the prognosis of general patients is relatively poor, and the recurrence rate is strong. At present, in addition to the commonly used surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine is also promoted in the clinical treatment of this disease. Let's take a look at the traditional Chinese medicine formulas for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Prescription 1: Codonopsis pilosula (or Pseudostellaria heterophylla), stir-fried Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Licorice root, Polyporus umbellatus, Alisma orientalis, Plantago seed, Cortex Moutan, Flos Lonicerae, roasted Scabra manis, roasted Trichosanthis, Eupolyphaga sinensis, Fructus Amaranthus, Caulis Scutellariae, Fructus Trichosanthis, and Capillaris, in appropriate amounts. Suitable for papillary adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head, decocted in water, 1 dose per day.

Prescription 2: 6g each of vinegar rhubarb, safflower, Corydalis yanhusuo, processed cyperus rotundus, and citron slices, 3g each of ginseng (swallow), jing sanleng, and peng ze shu, 4.5g each of qing pi, tangerine peel, tai wu yao, and guang mu xiang, and 12g of fenugreek seeds. Suitable for pancreatic cancer pain that extends to both flanks, poor appetite, fatigue, cord-like under the left flank that refuses to be pressed, and poor internal qi. Pulse is stringy, and the tongue is stagnant and purple. The syndrome is blood stasis and qi stagnation. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.

Prescription 3: Gentiana, Gardenia, Scutellaria, Coptis, Artemisia capillaris, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Bupleuri, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Rhubarb, Taraxacum, Hedyotis diffusa, Smilax glabra, Coix seeds, Poria, Curcuma, appropriate amounts. Suitable for middle and late stage pancreatic cancer. Fever, thirst, upper abdominal distension, stabbing pain under the hypochondrium, lumps palpable with deep pressure, dark jaundice, dark green, itchy skin, nausea and vomiting, dry and hard stools, or white stools, short and red urine, yellow and greasy dry tongue coating, stringy and rapid pulse. It is a syndrome of damp-heat toxicity.

Prescription 4: Raw earth, peach kernel, safflower, bitter orange, red peony root, liquorice, Achyranthes bidentata, Chuanxiong, Cyperus rotundus, Polygonum multiflorum, Curcuma zedoaria, and Tianlong in appropriate amounts. Suitable for middle and late stage pancreatic cancer. Upper abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, slow appetite, lower lumps, dark complexion, emaciation and fatigue; thick and greasy tongue coating, dark purple tongue, thin and astringent or stringy pulse, belongs to the patients with stagnation of qi and blood.

Prescription 5: Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Licorice root, Tangerine peel, Scorched hawthorn, Aucklandia lappa, Amomum villosum, Citrus aurantium, Citrus aurantium, Coix seed, appropriate amount. Suitable for middle and late stage pancreatic cancer. Fatigue, chest and abdominal distension, hypochondrium pain, poor appetite; greasy tongue coating, thin and stringy or thin and moist pulse, belong to the syndrome of spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction.

It can be seen from this that when we have pancreatic cancer, in addition to standardized Western medical treatment, the more critical and important thing is traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine can eliminate the soil and environment for the growth of cancer cells, maintain the balance of internal organs and yin and yang in the body, and turn the patient's cancer state into a healthy state, so that we can truly get rid of the trouble of "cancer".