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THE CLASSIFICATION OF 1,200 TYPES OF HERBAL MEDICINES

Since ancient times, many enthusiastic physicians have devoted their efforts to curing cancer in civil groups in China. Through their constant efforts, they have been able to correct mistakes and achieve remarkable success. When I made up my mind to wage war on cancer, I sought to learn the process of prescription making from these physicians in order to develop more effective herbal medicines. This was particularly true because my hometown was near Changbaishan – the treasury of Chines medicinal herbs.

At about this period I left my home village for Haicheng City in Liaoning Province to serve as a medical orderly in an army regiment. This was a very good opportunity for me, since I had access to a well-equipped medical facility and library that were even better than what we had in my village. After work, I spent long hours reading medical books. Through conversations with soldiers from different places, I gradually understood how cancer was cured in various parts of China. On my out-bound and itinerant training I made use of my free time by visiting physicians in the nearby districts, knocking at their doors, asking them about their prescriptions, which I studied and rearranged. In this way, during the four years I served as a medical orderly in the army, I managed to collect over eight hundred formulas of prescriptions.

It became apparent that my early arrogant presumption that I would be able to write prescriptions by myself was a mistake. The ten years that followed were like living in a dream. I spent all my money acquiring prescriptions from civic circles all over China, and I had acquired more than four thousand of them. Yet it was meaningless to merely collect such cancer curing prescriptions. I had to classify some one thousand two hundred herbal medicines to identify the most efficacious prescriptions.

Through my own research I classified the prescriptions into four main categories, namely those responsible for:

Clearing away heat and toxic materials (the effects of heat removal and toxins release)
Promoting blood circulation by removal of blood stasis (clearance of passage in blood channels, removal of areas of bruises
Alleviating pain and dissolving lumps (cessation of pain and removal of conglomerated material)
Replenishing the vital energy and nourishing the blood (replenishment of the original vital energy in the body and supply of nutrients to the bloods

A classification based on the principles of Chinese prescriptions

Chemical treatment in western medical science uses radiology, surgery, medicines and so forth. These methods damage health cells in the course of killing cancer cells. The overall concept in Chinese prescriptions is embodied in my four classifications. Cancer does not constitute a disease that attacks only one part of the body. The individual as a whole feels the discomfort it causes. In "eliminating pathogenic factors and supporting healthy energy," Chinese prescriptions can be said to take consideration of the overall situation of the whole patient.

However, in view of the advent and development of western medicine in China, the principles underlying Chinese prescriptions have been considered to run counter to modern medical thought, and outdated in the domain of anti-cancer therapy. When I began my research in the 1970s, plant based cures for cancer attracted the attention of the cancer specialists from developed countries all over the world. To me, this fact was very encouraging and exciting. It motivated my desire to use Chinese prescriptions in the development of a cure for cancer.

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