Methods of treating throat cancer with traditional Chinese medicine

The magic of herbal medicine has never stopped from ancient times to the present, because it is deeply trusted by people for its ability to cure the root cause. Laryngeal cancer is a malignant tumor and can also be treated with traditional Chinese medicine. How to treat laryngeal cancer with traditional Chinese medicine? Let us learn about it through the introduction of the following article.

According to the clinical manifestations of laryngeal cancer and its syndrome differentiation and treatment, the disease is mostly characterized by deficiency of the root and excess of the superficial symptoms. The root is weak in vital energy and deficiency of liver and kidney yin, while the superficial symptoms are mostly caused by toxic evil, phlegm and heat accumulating in the collaterals and blood stasis.

1. Wind-cold attacking the lungs

Symptoms: hoarseness, aversion to wind and cold, tightness in the throat, sudden onset, white tongue coating, floating and tight pulse

Treatment method: Dispel wind and relieve exterior symptoms, warm the lungs and dispel cold.

Prescription: Ma Pu Tang with modifications. Ephedra 6g, Apricot kernel 15g, Raw licorice 3g, Platycodon grandiflorum, Magnolia officinalis, Qinglanxia 10g each, Citrus aurantium 12g.

If the patient has wind-cold and fire, hoarseness, cough, fever, chest pain, dry and sore throat, yellow tongue coating, and stringy pulse, the patient should be treated with lung-clearing and throat-relief treatment. The prescription is Jiawei Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang. Medicinal ingredients: 6g of ephedra, 20g of raw gypsum, 15g of bitter almond, 15g of Radix Trichosanthis, 10g of Platycodon grandiflorum, and 3g of raw licorice.

2. Qi and Yin deficiency type

Symptoms: hoarseness, sore throat, shortness of breath, low voice, sweating and dry mouth, red tongue with little coating, and deep and fine pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish the deficiency and replenish Qi, moisten dryness and clear the voice.

Prescription: Dongshen Decoction. 10g ginseng, 15g each of Yunfuling, whole angelica, donkey-hide gelatin (melted), 30g of raw rehmannia root, 20g each of ophiopogon and asparagus, 12g of terminalia chebula pulp, 30ml of pear juice.

3. Lung deficiency with heat (heat accumulation in the lungs and stomach) type

Symptoms: hoarseness, dry throat and mouth, fever in the five parts of the body, hot flashes and night sweats, sore throat, foreign body sensation in the throat, difficulty swallowing, coughing and spitting, blood in sputum, nausea and loss of appetite, yellow and red urine, hard and dry stools, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid and stringy pulse.

Treatment method: Clear away heat and reduce fire, disperse stagnation and relieve sore throat.

Prescription: Qingyan Lige Decoction with modifications. 20g each of Saposhnikovia divaricata, Nepeta tenuifolia, Gardenia jasminoides, Forsythia suspensa, 6g each of Mentha suspensa, Platycodon grandiflorum, 12g each of Scrophularia ningpoensis, Honeysuckle, Bamboo leaves, 15g each of Burdock fruit, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Schisandrae Chinensis, 5g of Licorice.

These Chinese herbal prescriptions are of certain help to patients with laryngeal cancer and can have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects. I hope they can be used for the right symptoms.