HERB FORMULAS

LIVER CANCER #24

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HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Hb. Artemisiae Scopariae Yin Chen Hao 30g Clears Damp-Heat from the Liver and Gallbladder, relieves jaundice and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
Polyporus Zhu Ling 15g Promotes urination, leaches out Dampness, dispels Damp-Heat and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Mu Tong and Hua Shi, for Bloody Lin and abdominal distention with Heat signs.
With Ze Xie, drains Damp, unblocks and drains urinary pathways and drains Heat from the Bladder.
With Fu Ling and Ze Xie, for edema due to Spleen Deficiency.
Rz. Alismatis Ze Xie 9g Promotes urination and leaches out Dampness,
With Mu Tong, for Lin Syndrome with scanty urine and edema.
Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong 12g Promotes urination and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction.
With Fu Ling and Zhu Ling, for edema.
Rx. et Rz. Rhei Da Huang 6g Drains Heat, purges accumulations, transforms Dampness, promotes urination, invigorates the Blood, dispels Blood Stasis and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Yin Chen Hao, for Early-Stage Damp-Heat Jaundice when Heat is stronger than Dampness.
Poria Fu Ling 12g Promotes urination, leaches out Dampness and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Ze Xie, facilitates the removal of water and leaches out Dampness to treat stagnant water and Dampness leading to edema, jaundice, diarrhea, Milky Lin, and scanty, difficult urination with abdominal distention.
With Zhu Ling, promotes urination.
With Ze Xie and Zhu Ling, strengthens its ability to promote urination and leach out Dampness.
Talcum Hua Shi 15g Promotes urination, drains Heat from the Urinary Bladder, aids the movement of gravel and stones and expels Damp-Heat.
With Zhu Ling and Ze Xie, for Stone Lin.
with Mu topng, for Heat Lin.
Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli Ji Nei Jin 6g Strongly reduces Food Stagnation, improves the Spleen’s transportive function, transforms hardness, dissolves stones and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Clears Dampness
  • Purges Heat from Liver and Gallbladder

SYNDROMES

  • Advanced Liver cancer due to Damp-Heat with jaundice and ascites

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Ascites
  • Yang jaundice (sclera and skin bright yellow)
  • Pain and fullness in ribs on both sides
  • Maybe pain in the right hypochondrium
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting sour and bitter fluids
  • Anorexia
  • Maybe alternating chills and fever
  • Concentrated, dark urine
  • Abdominal distention and fullness
  • Restlessness
  • Feverishness
  • Women:
    Yellow vaginal discharge with foul smell
    Pruritis vulvae
  • Men:
    Pain, swelling and burning sensations of testicles
  • T: Pink with red tip and edges
  • C: Yellow and greasy or sticky
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Slippery and rapid
  • More Heat than Dampness:
    Bright yellow eyes and skin
    Fever
    Thirst
    Restless
    Nausea
    Dark, scanty urine
    T: Pink with red tip and edges
    C: Thick
    P: Wiry and rapid
  • More Dampness than Heat:
    Light yellow coloration
    Heaviness of the head and body
    Epigastric and abdominal fullness and distention
    Anorexia
    Thirst with no desire to drink
    Loose stools
    T: Pink with red tip and edges
    C: Whitish-gray
    P: Soft or slippery
  • Acute jaundice:
    Sudden onset
    Rapid aggravation of yellow pigmentation
    High fever
    Thirst
    Restlessness
    Deep yellow urine
    Coma
    Delirium
    Epistaxis
    Gum bleeding
    Drowsiness
    T: Red
    C: Yellow and curdy or Yellow and dry
    P: Wiry and rapid or Thready and rapid

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For jaundice:  
+ 30g Exocarpium Citrulli Xi Gua Pi    
   
+ 10g Cx. Phellodendri Huang Bai