Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) works — and not just for the occasional sore back. It works for the serious stuff too — like cancer.
But how TCM works for cancer is somewhat mysterious.
That’s because Traditional Chinese Medicine views cancer a lot differently than Western medicine. TCM practitioners believe a tumor isn’t the root cause of your illness… it’s your body’s way of telling you it’s unbalanced. This imbalance is caused by environmental or internal factors like toxins, stress, an unhealthy diet and damaged organs, which block your chi or life energy.
TCM aims to get to the root cause and treat the imbalance. And researchers are finally unlocking the scientific secrets to how it does that.
Recently, they’ve honed in on an effective cancer-killing treatment that’s being used to eradicate tumors left and right in China — compound kushen injection (CKI).
Compound kushen injection is a formulation that contains extracts from two medicinal Chinese herbs: Kushen (Radix Sophorae Flavescentis) and Baituling (Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae). Within these herbs are three powerful compounds that give CKI its cancer-fighting powers:
- Matrine
- Oxymatrine
- Sophoridine
Together, these compounds are able to kill breast cancer cells, lung cancer cells, liver cancer cells, stomach cancer cells, gallbladder cancer cells and bone cancer cells. And researchers believe that working as a team makes them more powerful.
“If we broke down and tested the components of many Traditional Chinese Medicines, we would find that individual compounds don’t have much activity on their own. It’s the combination of compounds which can be effective, and potentially means few side-effects as well,” said Professor David Adelson from the University of Adelaide, the leader of a recent study on CKI.
In his study, Adelson determined that compound kushen injection works by affecting the same gene pathways as chemotherapy, eventually pushing cancer cells down what is known as the “cell death pathway” (exactly where you want them). CKI also prevents cancer cells from dividing and reduces inflammation.
Now, compound kushen injection is an approved cancer treatment in China, but not in the U.S. So it’s not something you can make good use of yet. The herbal plants themselves, Kushen (Radix Sophorae Flavescentis) and Baituling (Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae), can be dangerous in inexperienced hands.
But there are other TCM cancer prevention and therapy methods available stateside, like:
- Artemisinin, an amazing anti-cancer herb that can kill breast cancer cells in 16 hours.
- Astragulus, one of TCM’s most widely used cancer fighters that has proven anti-tumor effects against melanoma, liver cancer and leukemia.
- Chinese skullcap, an herb that can halt tumor growth and kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact.
- Oldenlandia diffusa, an herb shown to stop the growth of cancer cells, kill cancer cells and boost the immune system so it can fight cancer cells better.
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Zhao, et al. “Effect of compound Kushen injection on T-cell subgroups and natural killer cells in patients with locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer treated with concomitant radiochemotherapy.” Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2016 Feb;36(1):14-8.
“Astragulus.” The University of Maryland Medical Center. http://umm.edu. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
“Oldenlandia and Scutellaria: Antitoxin and Anticancer Herbs.” Institute for Traditional Medicine. http://www.itmonline.org. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
