A Summary Of Wang Yutang 's Academic Thought And Clinical Experience And The Prevention Of Oxaliplatin - Related Neurotoxicity By "Warming Yang Huoxue Tongluo Decoction"

Professor Wang Yutang is a Physician in charge in the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). He is a national famous senior TCM doctors and a municipal famous senior TCM doctors. Professor Wang is a member of several professional groups including the branch committee of diagnosis of China association of Chinese medicine, the branch committee of the traditional medicine Chinese anti-cancer Association, the branch committee of TCM of the cancer foundation of China and the branch committee of cancer of China association of gerontology. He had been a visiting professor of the Hong Kong Baptist University for two years. Graduated in 1968 from the prestigious Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Professor Wang has been dedicating vast amount of his time to clinical research in the combination of the TCM and conventional western medicine for over 40 years. He is famous for his abundant experience, skillful treatment of the integrated TCM and western medicine and profound knowledge.Professor Wang treats a wide variety of conditions and he is particularly successful with the integrated medicine of oncology. His unique academic thoughts in the integrated TCM and conventional western medicine have been gradually formed from his daily clinical practice. The pathogenesis and etiology are the first important thing to make a comprehensive understanding of tumors. As for the theory of inner deficiency, Professor Wang, based on his clinical observations, points out that seven emotional factors and diet are two most important factors, and they have intimaterelationship with the progress of tumors. He also thinks that the inner deficiency is another fundamental factor, and points out that it is impossible for exogenous pathogenic factors to invade into patient’s bodiesand then cause disease when the vital energy of patients is abundant.Surgery,chemotherapy and radiotherapy are three main modalities used to treat cancer in the modern treatment of western medicine. Their disadvantages are theirnegative influences on patient’s bodies. For example, organs and normal tissues are destroyed in almost all operations. Professor Wang’s theory of inner deficiency indicates that adjusting the internal environment is the main approach. He also found that some herbal medicine can also assist the recovery of immune system after radio or chemotherapy. Based on long-term clinical observation, Professor Wang suggested that blood stasis and Qi deficiency are two important syndromesof cancer patients. He analyzes their relationship and then develops some formulae. Theseformulae have been proved to be effective and helpful for many cancer suffers.