(By Medical Research Center News Service, 09/05/2007) TCM Advisory -- On May 8, 2007, a group about 29 members from Israel visited Medical Research Center of TCM Department of Guilin Sino-western Joint Hospital, our Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) specialist Dr. Guo reviewed them at the reception hall, and also talked about TCM development in China, including history, status in quo and future.
In the 1 hour visiting, Dr. Guo took some examples to show the benefits from using TCM methods to cure illnesses or diseases, and especially mentioned Chinese herbal medicine to cure cancer. He said that there are two advantages of using Chinese herbal medicine to treatment cancer.
Aside from whether or not a cancer survivor is presently "cancer-free", also of consideration is the
general state of health of the individual, which oncology tends to disregard. Of primary concern to the oncologist is whether malignancies have redeveloped, not whether conditions exist which may portend the derangement of cellular processes which could ultimately lead to loss of differentiation. This is one of the most appropriate and effective roles the TCM doctor/herbalist can fulfill - to help reestablish an underlying balance in the individual, and to unravel the complex patterns inherent in the body which can, if left untreated, lead to the development of cancer.
Another advantage for TCM doctors and advanced herbalists is in the use of herbs as an adjunct to ongoing biomedical treatment for existing cancer. This can be addressed using any or all of three main approaches:
1) To offset the damaging side-effects of radiation and chemotherapy;
2) To benefit the patient's immune system, which biomedicine overwhelms and supplants with its powerful agents;
3) To aid in tumor reduction itself, potentially shortening the length of time the patient needs to receive radiation and/or chemotherapy.
(tcmadvisory.com)
