Methods of treating liver cancer with traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine is now a highly recommended method for treating liver cancer, but in order to achieve such an effect, you should also pay attention to the correct combination of prescriptions. Moreover, through the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, you can also reduce the side effects caused by long-term use of Western medicine.

1. Liver cancer of liver qi stagnation type: The patient's symptoms include distension and pain in the right hypochondrium, chest tightness and discomfort, sighing, poor appetite, occasional diarrhea, a lump under the right hypochondrium, a thin white tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.

Treatment principle: Soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen, regulating qi and activating blood circulation are the main themes.

Prescription: Chaihu Shugan Powder with modifications: Bupleurum, Chuanxiong, Peony Root, Tangerine Peel, Green Peel, Cyperus Root, Curcuma, Atractylodes Macrocephala, Coix Seed, Amomum Villosum, Rose, Millet Sprout, and Licorice.

2. Liver cancer of Qi stagnation and blood stasis type: Symptoms include huge lumps under the ribs, pain in the ribs radiating to the back, which is resistant to pressure and worse at night, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, loose and irregular stools, fatigue, dark purple tongue with ecchymosis and petechiae, and deep, thin or stringy and astringent pulse.

Treatment principle: Mainly focus on promoting qi and blood circulation, removing blood stasis and eliminating accumulation.

Prescription: Fuyuan Huoxue Decoction. Modifications: Bupleurum, Chinese angelica, peach kernel, pangolin, Trillium, Atractylodes, Corydalis, Leech, Earthworm, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Curcuma, Trillium, Oldenlandia diffusa, Lithospermum officinale, Scolopendra subspinipes, and Snake.

3. Damp-heat toxicity type liver cancer: patients show symptoms such as irritability, yellow body and eyes, dry and bitter mouth, decreased appetite, abdominal distension, stabbing pain in the ribs, red urine and dry stools, dark purple tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a stringy or slippery pulse.

Treatment principle: Clearing away heat and promoting bile secretion, purging fire and detoxifying are the main themes.

Prescription: Artemisia selengensis decoction with modifications: Artemisia selengensis, rhubarb, gardenia, moneywort, fleabane, coix seed, beehive, cycad leaves, rubescens, barbata, red safflower seeds, and sheep's foot root.

4. Liver Yin Deficiency Type Liver Cancer: Symptoms include pain in the ribs, fever in the five parts of the heart, dizziness, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, exposed blue veins, and even vomiting blood, bloody stools, ecchymoses and petechiae on the skin, a red tongue with little coating, and a thin and rapid pulse.

Treatment principle: Nourish yin and soften the liver, cool blood and detoxify.

Prescription: Yi Guan Jian combined with Xijiao Dihuang Decoction with modifications: raw rehmannia, adenophora, ophiopogon, angelica, wolfberry, toosendan fruit, turtle shell, moutan bark, Panax notoginseng, Eclipta prostrata, buffalo horn, bihua, lithospermum officinale, centipede.