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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ANTI-CANCER MEDICINE FROM CHINESE PRESCRIPTIONS

Aside from my collection of prescriptions from all over China, I also actively purchased prescriptions by mail order from overseas. However, out of the more than four thousand prescriptions I had collected, I was still faced by the question of why there was no single prescription that could cure cancer. I was therefore compelled to review my previous line of thinking. As I have mentioned earlier, Chinese prescriptions are based on the principle of eliminating pathogenic factors and supporting healthy energy. In other words, this means that cancer should not be cured by attacking its source or root cause, but by helping the body restore itself to health. Therefore, in my quest to find a prescription that restores the individual’s health, I chose as a criterion the ability of the prescription to suppress toxic pathogenic factors. Needless to say such a prescription would not disrupt other normal body functions.

Based on this idea, I carefully selected sixty species of herbs to use for my anti-cancer prescription. I searched all over China for other, new anti-cancer prescriptions, hoping to continuously improve my formula. By the second and third rounds of my clinical tests on rats, I had eliminated half, i.e. thirty out of the sixty species of herbs I had initially selected. In September 1983, I carefully chose ten out of these thirty herbs which I mixed into pills the size of duck eggs. These were further refined into little capsules, with 110 capsules to each bottle. A total of thirteen bottles of test samples were made.

Tian Xian pills

I chose a name for my new medicine by taking one word from the names of two Chinese herbs used in earlier prescriptions. These were Tian Hua powder ( Radix trichosanthis) and Wei Ling Xian (Radix clematidis). This was how Tian Xian pills – the predecessor of Tian Xian liquid – evolved as a new Chinese prescription.

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