Professor ZHANG Hong's experience in treating colorectal cancer from spleen
The incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer in the world are among the top few,and are on the rise,which seriously threatens human health.Western medicine mainly adopts surgery,radiotherapy and chemotherapy.Although it can solve some cancers,it has caused trauma to patients'body and mind.TCM medicine treatment gives full play to its characteristics of holistic treatment,multi-target and small side effects,and promotes the recovery of patients with colorectal cancer.Professor ZHANG Hong believes that the occurrence and development of colorectal cancer are related to the dysfunction of spleen,liver,lung and kidney.The excess of positive Qi(气)and evil,the metabolic disorder of Qi,blood and body fluid,the adhesion of water,dampness,phlegm and heat toxin to the intestine,and the accumulation over time,among which spleen deficiency syndrome is closely related to the whole process of the occurrence and development of colorectal cancer.According to syndrome differentiation and treatment,colorectal cancer can be divided into spleen-Qi deficiency syndrome,spleen deficiency and liver depression syndrome,spleen deficiency and phlegm-dampness syndrome,damp-heat accumulation syndrome and spleen-kidney deficiency syndrome.In the treatment,it is proposed that strengthening the body resistance should focus on strengthening the spleen,soothing the liver and tonifying the kidney.Eliminating pathogenic factors is mainly based on eliminating dampness,resolving phlegm,clearing heat,detoxifying and removing blood stasis.The combination of strengthening the body resistance and eliminating pathogenic factors has a good effect on slowing down drug toxicity,improving patients'physical fitness,improving clinical symptoms and quality of life.Professor ZHANG Hong's rich clinical experience has helped many patients achieve long-term survival with tumors.Therefore,the idea of treating colorectal cancer from spleen is worth popularizing,which provides some ideas for enriching the treatment of TCM.