Chinese Medical Ethics in Some Diseases

Acute Leukemia and Traditional Herbal Medicine

Causes of this disease:

This disease results from body deficiencies. Due to the lack of correct 'qi', the invasion of epidemic poison from the exterior into the interior, damaging Yin and Yin of the body. When the damages reach the marrow, the interior heat steams up, hurting the blood and meridian systems. In some cases, the everlasting poison consumes 'qi' and blood, and consequently 'qi' cannot contain the blood, and the spleens cannot control the blood. The overflow of blood manifests itself in the upper part as nose bleeding, tooth bleeding, coughing blood, or vomiting blood, while in the lower part it is manifest as blood in the urine, and uterine bleeding in women. Leukemia is a disease characterized as deficiency in the correct 'qi', excess in the pathogens, and moreover the mixture of the two. The deficiency in Jinqi is the interior factor whereas the epidemic poison is the extraneous factor. The whole process of this disease is complicated in that the correct 'qi' fights with the epidemic poison, with the presence of both deficiency and excess.

Treatment of the disease

So far, the treatment of acute leukemia via the combination of modern medicine and traditional medicine is far better along than that of the treatment via chemotherapy of modern medicine and traditional herbal medicine. Traditional herbal medicine can alleviate the symptoms, treat complications, reduce the side effects of chemo- and/or radio- therapies. Meanwhile, herbal medicine can also improve the body resistance, restore the normal counts of red cells & white cells, and even eliminate the leukemic cells.