"His condition hasn't reached the point where softening and firming dications are necessary. Activating blood flow and resolving stasis should suffice."
Lu Xuan directly expressed his thoughts.
Zhang Jingcai nodded slightly and asked, "There's another question I want to understand. So people believe that the thod of activating blood flow and resolving stasis in treating primary liver cancer might promote its tastasis.
So authoritative studies have found that these dications can lead to the dispersion of blood stasis in localized rat liver cancer, which might facilitate the spread of cancer toxins to other areas, thus promoting tumor tastasis;
Additionally, blood circulation dications improve the local microcirculation, providing a richer blood supply for tumor growth.
There are also studies showing that low to moderate doses of alcohol extracts of Panax notoginseng have significant tumor-suppressing and anti-liver tastasis effects, improving the overall condition of mice with tumor-induced liver tastases. But larger doses might increase the chances of bleeding and tastasis. What's your view on this?"
After thinking for a mont, Lu Xuan replied, "With primary liver cancer, if treated with Western dicine, few patients survive beyond a year. However, with adjustnts based on Chinese dical concepts, while cancer might not disappear, patients often live like normal people; this is what we refer to as living with the cancer.
And with Western dicine?
Patients go through various chemotherapy and radiotherapy thods, not to ntion the pain they endure, which can't even save their lives. So, what's the use?"
Zhang Jingcai fell into silence.
For cancer, Western dicine primarily aims to eliminate it, removing it wherever it's found.
For areas that can't be removed, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are used to deal with them, harming the enemy by eight hundred and harming oneself by a thousand. In the end, patients spend money but their lives aren't saved.
Many patients die within a short six months from diagnosis to treatnt.
Whereas, if treated with Chinese dicine, regardless of the cost, patients will at least suffer less and can live with cancer. So may live three to five years, others possibly five to ten years, or even have a quality of life similar to normal individuals.
Apart from needing to take herbal dicine regularly.
Lu Xuan glanced at the silent Zhang Jingcai and continued, "The blood stasis theory for primary liver cancer originated from the 'Inner Canon,' was established by Zhang Zhongjing, and has been continuously supplented and improved by successive generations, forming a comprehensive Chinese dical theoretical system combining principles, thods, prescriptions, and dications.
Physiologically, the liver governs spreading and storing of blood. The liver's spreading reflects its role as a firm organ, characterized by ascending and active physiological traits, which is crucial for regulating qi movent and promoting the flow of blood and body fluids. Blood flow depends on the rise and fall and inward and outward movent of qi.
Therefore, if the liver fails to spread, qi becos congested, leading to blood circulation obstruction, forming blood stasis, resulting in masses and ultimately developing into primary liver cancer.
Pathologically, the cancer body in primary liver cancer is due to blood stasis. During the disease's evolution, liver depression causes qi stagnation, qi stagnation leads to blood stasis;
Spleen deficiency ans the generation of qi and blood has no source, and qi deficiency also causes blood stasis.
In terms of clinical progression, from the onset and developnt of primary liver cancer to the appearance of clinical manifestations, it is a lengthy pathological process. 'Chronic illness must lead to stasis,' and blood stasis runs throughout the progression of liver cancer.
I acknowledge that the surgical level of Western dicine is unparalleled by Chinese dicine, but when it cos to cancer treatnt, I find Chinese dicine to be more humane.
In the treatnt of primary liver cancer, I still believe the application of prescriptions focusing on 'stasis' is essential; it not only alleviates clinical symptoms and improves the quality of life but also regulates the immune chanism to inhibit tumor growth.
However, Old Zhang, the point you just ntioned indeed needs careful consideration. The impact of activating blood flow and resolving stasis on liver cancer is extrely complex. Sensible clinical application, understanding indications, dosage, and administration routes of these dications, are key areas for further detailed research and discussion."
Lu Xuan's understanding of Chinese dical concepts was enough to once again impress Zhang Jingcai.
When Zhou Jiande ntioned this earlier, neither he nor Huang Beishan and Ye Haishen really believed in it. After all, there are so many ancient dical texts, and mastering them all to the point of reciting them seed impossible.
Even so, Zhang Jingcai could accept it.
After all, this world is not short of geniuses.
So people indeed possess extraordinary talents in mory, and being able to morize all dical texts backward is not unusual.
However, to truly integrate all the contents of dical texts and derive one's insights and understanding is not sothing ordinary people can achieve. Without solid skills and abilities, it's utterly impossible.
While Lu Xuan discussed these things, Zhang Jingcai kept looking down at the prescription Lu Xuan had written, gently nodding, "Old Zhou was right, talking with Dr. Lu about these things is indeed deeply beneficial.
Although in the concept of treating primary liver cancer, my thoughts are quite similar to yours, when it cos to writing prescriptions, my precision isn't quite like yours. I need to try once or twice, adjusting the prescription according to the patient's condition, only then might I arrive at a prescription similar to the one you've written this mont."
"Old Zhang, I respectfully disagree with your view on this."
Lu Xuan shook his head and confidently elaborated, "The prescriptions I write aren't necessarily more effective than yours. To be honest, after graduating I interned in Yong City, where I frequently heard about the United South Chinese dicine Association, and was most impressed by Old Zhang and Old Huang. At that ti, I thought that if I could ever reach your level, it would be a blessing to my ancestors.
Different prescriptions don't matter as long as the concepts are the sa and the treatnt thods are consistent, the results won't dramatically differ.
Moreover, such conditions aren't resolved in a single step. Patients need to take the dicine, then modify the prescription based on their changing conditions to achieve the best effect.
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