Thinking and Methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Diagnosing and Treating Digestive Tract Early Cancer
This paper summarized the traditional Chinese medicine understanding,treatment methods and medication strate-gies for early gastrointestinal cancer.It believes that the early digestive tract cancer is located in spleen and stomach,closely re-lated to liver and kidney.Traditional Chinese medicine considers it mainly as spleen and stomach weakness,ascension and de-scent disorder,liver failure,kidney Qi transformation failure,water and dampness metabolism transportation disorder,Qi obstruc-tion,blood stasis in meridians,evil retention;or heat depression due to dampness obstruction,or insufficient Yang Qi causing Yin Qi coagulation,phlegm,blood stasis,cold and heat and toxic evil accumulation.When diagnosing,it is necessary to distinguish cold and heat as well as deficiency and excess,and the treatment should be based on regulating spleen and stomach,restoring as-cending and descending,clearing heat as the standard,and warming Yang as the basis,with the auxiliary of dispelling liver and regulating Qi movement,eliminating dampness,resolving phlegm,dispelling blood stasis and dissipating mass,and adding detoxifi-cation drugs.At the same time,it emphasizes stage-by-stage treatment.When there are symptoms,the diagnosis and treatment should be focused on the symptoms,and when the symptoms are relieved,the three-cause treatment should be based on the root cause.At the same time,it emphasizes timely screening,paying attention to diet and life conditioning,and has regular follow-up.
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