Chinese medicine name
Cancer
Pathogenesis site
Related organs
Related western medicine diseases
Brain tumor, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, etc.
Main etiology
Positive qi internal deficiency, feeling of evil and poison, etc.
Other names
Tumor, accumulations
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Nomenclature Explanation
Cancer is a general term for many kinds of malignant tumors, and the abnormal proliferation of internal organs and tissues is the basic feature of the cancer. Clinical manifestations mainly include gradual enlargement of lumps, uneven surface, hard texture, pain and fever, often accompanied by systemic symptoms such as poor appetite, fatigue and weight loss.
History
1. There is a record of "tumor" in Yinxu Oracle.
2. "Shuowen Jiezi": "Tumor, swelling, from the disease, stay sound."
3. "Sheng Ji General Records" said: "Tumor for the meaning, stay stagnant not to go." A pithy explanation of the meaning of tumor.
4. "Cancer" was first mentioned in Wei Ji Bao Shu (1171 AD) written by Dong Xuan Jushi of Song Dynasty, and it was regarded as one of the five hairs of carbuncle and gangrene.
5. Naming: In Chinese medical writings, there are more clinical characteristics of various cancers and they are named accordingly, such as thyroid cancer belongs to "stone gall", liver cancer belongs to "liver accumulation", etc. There are also some modern cancers that were not found in ancient times. There are also some modern cancers that were not specifically named in ancient times, and they can be referred to according to the clinical manifestations of the cancers in the theory and practice of Chinese medicine.
6. Ancient Chinese medical texts have recorded the clinical manifestations, etiology, treatment, prognosis and prevention of some cancers, which still have important reference value.
(1) For example, Suwen-Yuji Zhenqi said, "The big bones are withered, the big flesh is sunk, the chest is full of gas, the gasping is inconvenient, the internal pain leads to the shoulder and neck, the body is hot, the flesh is taken off to break the rouge, and the real flesh is seen to be dead within 10 months." The symptoms described are similar to the clinical manifestations of advanced lung cancer and clearly indicate a poor prognosis.
(2) Qing - Qikun "Surgery Dacheng - on hemorrhoidal leakage" said: "Locked anus hemorrhoid, inside and outside the anus, such as bamboo joints locking, shaped like jellyfish, in the urgent and then heavy, stool and feces fine and with flat, and when the flow of stinking water, which has no cure." The description of the above symptoms is basically consistent with rectal cancer.
(3) The etiology and pathogenesis of cancer are mostly believed to be due to the imbalance of yin and yang, depression of seven emotions and damage of internal organs, which lead to stagnation of qi and blood stagnation, and in the long run, it will become "obstruction in the abdomen" and "accumulation". For example, "the source of all diseases - accumulation of disease Zhuhou" said: "the organs by the evil, the first failed to become Hoven, stagnation does not go, is to become the accumulation of".
(4) Regarding the treatment of cancer, there are more discussions in the works of Chinese medicine, including internal and external treatment, single and compound prescription, drugs and surgery and other colorful treatment methods. Ming Zhang Jingyue, "Jingyue Encyclopedia - Accumulation", said: "Where the treatment of accumulation, such as the cloud of the scriptures, is also both full. However, to total its key, but four methods, said attack, said eliminate, said scattered, said fill, four only." The treatment of accumulation of highly generalized. Tang Dynasty "Jin Shu" said: "The first emperor eye tumor disease, so that the doctor cut," for our country's earliest record of surgical treatment of cancer.
7 . Modern medicine: Cancer is a kind of intractable disease, which is the local manifestation of a kind of systemic disease, and it is difficult to be completely cured by any single means of local treatment. Chinese medicine treats cancer with the guiding principle of supporting the positive and dispelling the evil, and the combination of Chinese and western medicines can take advantage of their strengths and complement their weaknesses, give full play to the roles of various treatments in the various stages of cancer, and improve the curative effect or reduce the toxicity and increase the effect, improve the symptoms, improve the quality of life, and prolong the period of survival.