The Role of Chinese Medicine in Dealing with the side-effects of Cancer Treatment such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy

Professor Li Pei Wen

Introduction Chinese medicine can be used as a supplementary therapy to minimize the adverse side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy and has proved to be efficacious. Professor Li Pei Wen at the Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital in Beijing has shown that Chinese herbs given prior to surgery which supplement qi , nourish blood, tonify the spleen and… Read more »