Try Chinese medicine to relieve these symptoms in cancer patients

2018-10-18 People's Daily online - health times

For some common diseases of cancer patients, try Chinese medicine, sometimes can achieve the purpose of treatment or relief.

Gastrointestinal dysfunction, such as gastrointestinal dysfunction, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and constipation, etc. after the operation of patients with digestive tract tumor due to anesthetic hemorrhage, surgical trauma, fasting, gastrointestinal decompression, etc. The proposal looks for professional Chinese medicine, open some to strengthen the spleen and stomach, the treatment qi stagnation Chinese medicine.

Hand and foot syndrome: during the oral administration of siroda chemotherapy, hands and feet tingling, skin swelling or peeling, chap, hard like blisters, severe pain, etc., can cause great pain to patients. Traditional Chinese medicine advocates the use of raw astragalus, angelica, raw ground and other herbal medicine fumigation wash both hands and feet, the effect is obvious.

Phlebitis (phlebitis) : chronic, repeated irritation of chemotherapy drugs that causes swelling and pain along the veins. Can be given the heat of the antidote poison topical application, the internal administration of drugs such as honeysuckle, forsythia, etc.

Menopausal syndrome: after the endocrine treatment of breast cancer, the patients often have menopausal syndrome such as hot flushes, night sweats and irritability. It is advisable to use a formula of nourishing the heart and soothing the mind and soothing the liver and regulating qi.

Radioactive enteritis: can be manifested as acute abdominal pain, diarrhea as the main disease, even mucous like stool, treatment with heat and humidity, spleen qi.

Radiation esophagitis: pain, burning sensation, dysphagia, etc. after sternal tumor in chest radiotherapy, commonly used in raw land, dendrobium, scutellariae, radix ophiopogonis, flos lonicerae, wild chrysanthemum, etc.

Radioactive pneumonia: if the appearance of irritating dry cough, no phlegm, short chest qi, the treatment to clear lung phlegm, nourishing Yin lung, detoxification and ventilation.

Targeted drug skin rash: it can be divided into wind-heat type, damp-heat type, blood-heat type and yinxu type.