Chinese Medicine and Healthcare: 100 Questions for Migrant Workers

Author: Sun Guangrong
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: What should you do if you get cancer? First, we need to know that cancer is not an incurable disease. Early-stage cancer can be completely cured, and even in advanced stages, there are treatment options. Some can alleviate symptoms, while others allow for long-term survival with the tumor. Therefore, if you have cancer, you should neither overworry, panic, fear, become depressed, or give up hope; nor should you act as if you don’t care, be overly detached, or neglect treatment. Instead, you should have a correct understanding and bravely and rationally face the disease—neither fearing it nor taking it lightly—strive to buy time, and actively cooperate with treatment. As an unfortunate cancer patient, once you understand this knowledge, you must decisively follow your doctor’s treatment plan. Never delay the condition out of fear of surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or other treatment methods. Generally, early-stage tumors are small, and patients are usually in relatively good health. The main focus should be on eliminating the pathogenic factors and combating cancer, meaning taking decisive action to use all possible anti-cancer treatments to completely eliminate cancerous lesions, including surgical resection, radical radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, while minimizing damage to the patient’s overall function. If you delay or miss the opportunity, the consequences will be dire. For mid-stage patients, both reinforcing the body and eliminating pathogenic factors should be applied. In advanced stages, due to the decline in vital energy and dysfunction of organ tissues, as well as weak immunity and anti-cancer capabilities, patients cannot withstand strong anti-cancer treatments (radical surgery, radical radiotherapy, etc.). Therefore, the focus should be on reinforcing the body (enhancing the patient’s overall disease resistance and protecting the body’s overall function) through various traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) methods, support therapies, and strengthening treatments to boost the patient’s anti-cancer ability, improve their general condition, and then provide appropriate anti-cancer treatments based on the patient’s actual recovery. If these principles are violated, it often leads to poor outcomes for the patient, even leaving lasting regrets. TCM, with its holistic concept, adheres to the principle of unifying reinforcing the body and combating cancer, showing significant advantages in reducing the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and preventing cancer recurrence and metastasis. TCM treatment should be adopted from the time the tumor is discovered to control and regulate the condition. Before surgery, TCM herbs can be used to kill cancer cells, control the progression of the disease, and prepare the patient’s physical condition for surgery. Secondly, during surgery and radiotherapy/chemotherapy, TCM should be used in conjunction with treatment to enhance efficacy, minimize the negative impact on the patient’s immunity, and prevent the recurrence and metastasis of the tumor. Thirdly, after completing conventional treatment and entering the recovery phase, TCM should still be used for consolidation, and patients should be guided to engage in beneficial activities to maintain their bodies in the best possible state.
How to prevent heatstroke and what to do after heatstroke? During hot and humid weather, people are prone to "heatstroke" in high-temperature environments, such as working in hot workshops, outdoors, in farmlands, or in crowded public places. Heatstroke symptoms range from mild to severe. Mild symptoms include slight dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, blurred vision, thirst, weakness, and unsteady walking. Severe symptoms may include elevated body temperature, flushed face, chest tightness, dry and hot skin, or pale face, nausea, vomiting, excessive sweating, and decreased blood pressure with fine pulses.