Q&A on TCM Knowledge for Preventing and Treating Diseases: A Reading Material for Migrant Workers

Author: Sun Guangrong
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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 still 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 lose hope; nor should you act as if you don’t care, be overly detached, or neglect treatment. Instead, you should face the disease with a correct understanding, courage, and rationality—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. Do not delay the condition out of fear of surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or other treatment methods. Generally, early-stage lesions are small, and patients are usually in relatively good health. The primary focus should be on eliminating the cancer by using all possible anti-cancer treatments, 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 and eliminating the pathogen should be implemented.
In advanced stages, patients often suffer from severe depletion of vital energy, dysfunction of organs and tissues, weakened immunity, and poor anti-cancer capabilities. They cannot withstand aggressive anti-cancer treatments (radical surgery, radical radiotherapy, etc.). Therefore, the focus should be on reinforcing vital energy (enhancing the patient’s overall disease resistance and protecting the body’s overall function). Through various traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) methods, including reinforcing the body’s foundation and supportive therapies, the patient’s anti-cancer ability can be strengthened, their general condition improved, and then appropriate anti-cancer treatments can be administered based on their actual recovery.
If these principles are violated, the consequences for the patient can be severe, even leaving lasting regrets. TCM, with its holistic approach, adheres to the principle of unifying reinforcing vital energy and anti-cancer efforts. It has significant advantages in reducing the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, as well as preventing cancer recurrence and metastasis. TCM treatment should be adopted from the moment the tumor is detected to control and regulate the condition. Before surgery, Chinese medicine can be used to kill cancer cells, control disease progression, and prepare the patient’s physical condition for surgical treatment.
Second, during surgery and radiotherapy/chemotherapy, TCM should be used in conjunction with treatment to enhance its effectiveness, minimize the negative impact on the patient’s immunity, and prevent the recurrence and metastasis of the tumor. Third, 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" symptoms, especially in high-temperature workshops, outdoor or agricultural work, or crowded public spaces. Heatstroke can range from mild to severe. Mild symptoms include slight dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, blurred vision, thirst, weakness, and unsteady gait. 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.