Chinese Medical Ethics in Some Diseases

Cancer and Traditional Chinese Medicine

lymph nodes in lymphoma or cancer metastasis. Damp is related to fluid discharge, in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, an accumulation of damp which may be the cause of turbid nasal discharge. Toxic heat is usually encountered in the advanced stages or in cancer with secondary infection, manifested by fever, constipation and yellow tongue coating. Accumulation of stagnated blood or blood stasis is a common pathogenic factor of tumors in the abdomen. This includes gynecological tumors, particularly if the mass is painful, palpable and tender. Another clinical feature of blood stasis is a purple tongue or purple dots or spots on the tongue. Since this phenomenon occurs so often, blood stasis is now considered

a general pathogenic mechanism of the growth of many kinds of cancer.

Among all the pathogenic factors, lowered body resistance comes first. Compared with Western medicine, the above brief tastelessness in the mouth. White, thick and greasy tongue coating, wiry and thready pulse. Therapeutic method: Warming yang and strengthening the spleen to expel the damp.

b. Deficiency of the Liver Yin

Main Manifestations : Dull pain in the hypochondrium, dryness of eyes, dizziness, blurred vision, hot sensation in the palms and soles, soreness and weakness in the loins and knees. Dry and red tongue with little or no coating, wiry and thready pulse. Therapeutic method: Nourishing the liver yin.