Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment Methods for Tongue Cancer

Eat while it’s hot is deeply rooted in people’s minds. Although food ensures the normal functioning of our body, we are overly concerned about the temperature of the food. If it is too hot, it may burn the tongue and cause disease from the mouth. Frequent high-temperature consumption can easily lead to tongue cancer. Today, let’s take a look at the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of tongue cancer:

The fundamental pathogenesis of tongue cancer is congenital deficiency, acquired disorder of daily life, emotional distress, improper diet, etc., leading to deficiency of vital energy, low function of internal organs, weak qi transport, inability to transform phlegm and water, qi stagnation, blood stasis and phlegm coagulation, which block the tongue and cause cancer. Looking at the course of the disease, it is due to deficiency leading to excess, and due to excess leading to more deficiency, resulting in a mixture of deficiency and excess, and deficiency in the beginning and excess in the symptoms. In the early stage of tongue cancer, the main feature is evil and excess, showing the symptoms of fire poison accumulation, followed by a mixture of deficiency and excess, and in the late stage, the evil is strong and the vital energy is weak, showing a state of both qi and blood deficiency. Clinically, it can be treated according to the course of the disease, and the treatment can be added or subtracted according to the symptoms. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment - syndrome differentiation and treatment.

1. Initial stage

Symptoms: A small hard lump grows on the tongue, shaped like a bean, often on the edge of the tongue, hard to the touch, or grows like a fungus. Or there may be erosion or ulceration, which does not heal after long-term treatment, pain and discomfort, fishy saliva, dry mouth, less yellow urine, red tongue, thin yellow fur, and stringy pulse.

Treatment method: Clear the heart and relieve heat, detoxify and resolve stagnation.

2. Mid-term

Symptoms: Tongue cancer nodules increase in size, and may cause erosion, ulceration, and easy bleeding. The pain is unbearable, and the cheeks and ears also hurt. The tongue is difficult to move, which interferes with eating and speaking. There is a lot of foul-smelling saliva. The tongue is red, with a thick or greasy yellow coating, and a stringy and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Clear away heat and detoxify, disperse nodules and relieve pain.

3. Late stage

Symptoms: Swollen tongue or obvious ulcers in the mouth, easy to bleed, inability to stretch and retract the tongue, difficulty opening the mouth and eating, foul breath, lumps on the neck and under the jaw, or swelling through the tongue and cheeks, soup leaking out, emaciation, shortness of breath and fatigue, mental fatigue, pale tongue with greasy coating, and thin and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish blood and replenish qi, detoxify and resolve stagnation.

The above stages are an overview of the evolution of tongue cancer. There is no strict boundary between the three stages. The main treatment is to clear away heat and toxic substances, disperse nodules and attack solidity, especially in the early and middle stages when the evil is strong and the body is strong. However, the occurrence of this disease is related to the deficiency of the body. Bitter and cold products can easily damage the spleen, and the course of the disease can easily damage the body. Therefore, we must pay attention to protecting the body's health and eliminating the evil without damaging the body.