What are the traditional Chinese medicines for liver cancer pain relief

What are the traditional Chinese medicines for pain relief in liver cancer? In clinical practice, almost all patients with middle and late stage liver cancer may experience varying degrees of pain in the liver area. Experience has shown that traditional Chinese medicines for external or internal use not only have a significant analgesic effect on liver cancer patients who have already experienced pain, but also have a long-lasting and mild effect with few side effects. Commonly used analgesic traditional Chinese medicines include Corydalis yanhusuo, asarum, rice husk, celandine, etc., as well as frankincense, myrrh, dragon's blood, safflower, turmeric, borneol, etc. that are easily soluble in alcohol.

Here are some proven recipes that can relieve pain in patients with liver cancer:

1. Oral prescription of woodlice: Woodlice are also known as woodlice and wet insects. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, woodlice are sweet, flat, non-toxic, and can treat toothache, amenorrhea, blood clots and other pains. Usage: Grind the dried woodlice into fine powder, take 3 grams each time with warm water, 3 times a day. Or take 60 grams of dried woodlice, add appropriate amount of water and boil twice, and take a total of 240 ml of juice. Take 60 ml each time, 4 times a day. Patients should avoid eating sour and spicy food during medication.

2. Turtle Gallbladder Pain Recipe: Wash a live turtle (male or female), put it into a casserole or aluminum pot, add boiling water and boil for 5 to 10 minutes, then cut the turtle open, take out the gallbladder, squeeze out the bile, and take it on an empty stomach once a day. If the turtle weighs more than 250 grams, divide the bile into two portions for two days.

3. Toad garlic external application recipe: peel the skin of 3 live toads, take a garlic, crush the garlic and apply it on the toad skin, and then apply the toad skin to the painful area. This recipe is suitable for those who suffer from severe pain caused by liver cancer and dolutegratin is ineffective.

4. External application of Axiong ointment: Take 60g of asafoetida, saltpeter, 30g of realgar, strychnine, 3g of musk, and appropriate amount of scallion. First grind the first four herbs into fine powder, and mash them with scallion into a paste. Then apply musk to the obvious painful area of ​​the liver, and then apply the paste, bandage with gauze, and change the dressing once a week.

5. External application of realgar powder: Take 60g each of realgar, alum, indigo, saltpeter, frankincense, and myrrh, 30g of dragon's blood, 10g of borneol, and appropriate amounts of vinegar and pig bile. Grind the first 8 herbs into fine powder and divide them into 7 packets. Take one packet each time and mix them into a paste with equal amounts of vinegar and pig bile. Apply externally for 8 hours a day. When the paste is dry, use vinegar and pig bile to moisten it. This recipe is especially suitable for patients with severe pain caused by advanced liver cancer.

In addition, the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and painkillers in Western medicine can not only enhance the efficacy, but also reduce the side effects of Western medicine. For example, if the patient takes the analgesic dihydroetorphine hydrochloride, adding rice husk to the peony and licorice soup can have a good effect on the pain of liver cancer and other abdominal cancers. For patients with severe pain caused by liver cancer who often use pethidine for pain relief, if they boil toad venom, corydalis, pangolin and green peel together to make a concentrated juice and apply it to the painful area, the pain relief effect can be enhanced.