Traditional Chinese Medicine in Cancer Treatment: What are Supporting the Right Qi, Eliminating Pathogenic Factors, and Regulating the Organs?

Traditional Chinese Medicine in Cancer Treatment: What are Supporting the Right Qi, Eliminating Pathogenic Factors, and Regulating the Organs?

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) emphasizes 扶正 (fuzheng, Supporting the Right Qi), 祛邪 (quxie, Eliminating Pathogenic Factors), and 调脏腑 (tiaozangfu, Regulating the Organs) in cancer treatment. What do these terms mean? What are their respective therapeutic effects? 扶正 (fuzheng) means supporting 1. Helping patients restore their own 正气 (zhengqi, Right Qi) to enhance their constitution and … Read more