Xu died shouldn't be blamed on traditional Chinese medicine

Feng Li

Sep 14, 2016, they

Source: People's Daily online - health channel

Recently, the young actress xu lymphoma was news of the death cause attention. The tragedy of this let a person feel sorry, also makes some people blame the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine: "cupping therapy scrapping missed the best treatment time" "is xu died in traditional Chinese medicine?" That argument and ask at that time to the traditional Chinese medicine treatment to the forefront.

In xu microblog, still put her to accept the back cupping, abdominal acupuncture needles, fingers bleed healing process such as photographs. According to the text, she because fear after cancer chemotherapy, worry "was beyond recognition with chemotherapy again the goods", so give up diagnosis and treatment of western medicine, to help the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine therapy, try cupping therapy, acupuncture needles, bleeding, was, the better instead of more and more serious.

Is in the bad cure cancer? In fact, both western medicine and TCM, malignant tumor is not rely on a single method can solve, need to cooperate with Chinese and western medicine, a variety of means of comprehensive treatment. Western medicine is good at through surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy tumors had narrowed. The advantage of TCM is embodied in two aspects, one is in the western medicine treatment, Chinese medicine can reduce chemotherapy of adverse reactions such as nausea, vomiting, edema, pain. 2 it is to effectively control the tumor, help to improve immunity, prevention of disease relapse, promote physical recovery. For example: western medicine is the spear, the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine is a shield and spear shield, to defense capabilities. Blind to exclude a particular treatment, completely depend on another kind of treatment, it is unscientific. Even normal hospital experts, also won't arbitrarily say treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine treatment good, the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine has its own advantages, also have their shortcomings, need professional physicians according to the different stages of cancer and the pathological characteristics, targeted to providing.

For malignant tumor, it is not enough to use Chinese medicine acupuncture cupping, not acupuncture cupping therapy is the medical tools to use, but didn't put it in the right place.

The incident also reflect a part of patients, the idea of choice for medical treatment. Some patients see radiotherapy, chemotherapy can cause some damage to the body, for it with fear, so I need to seek no wound treatment in TCM. Some of the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of apotheosis, feel the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine can cure. In addition, the treatment of tumor of popular science propaganda is insufficient, also don't know what to do after patients got sick, grasping. These are all we need to correct the mistake in the future and to avoid situations.

Proposal in sick patients to normal, the hospital authority. The national level, should strengthen regulation and oversight, let patients receiving standard treatment. (Chinese academy of medical sciences cancer hospital and regions, doctoral tutor, director of the national cancer center Professor Feng Li)