Chapter 151: Chapter 125: Have You Heard of Cardiac Cancer?

Cannot operate…

“Dr. Lu, are you saying that you believe surgery for breast cancer and its various metastases not only doesn’t help but actually harms the patient? Is that what you mean?” Song Zhao asked.

“If you don’t operate, there’s still a chance to live; if you operate, there’s only a dead end.” Lu Jiu replied.

“What about just undergoing chemo and radiotherapy?” Song Zhao inquired.

Lu Jiu had just started eating a piece of beef when he heard Song Zhao’s question. He only chewed half of it before helplessly saying, “Dr. Song, do you really want me to continue?”

Song Zhao was puzzled, “Is there something you can’t say?”

Lu Jiu swallowed the beef and put down his chopsticks, “Then how does Dr. Song understand cancer?”

Song Zhao didn’t understand why Lu Jiu changed the topic, but he still answered Lu Jiu’s question seriously, “As I understand it, cancer is caused by malignant cell proliferation, is invasive, can metastasize, usually manifests as a continuously growing localized mass in the body, destroys normal tissue structure, and can metastasize to other parts when it worsens. It is incurable.”

Lu Jiu continued to ask, “What cancer types does Dr. Song currently know of?”

Song Zhao replied, “There are too many of them; presently, there are more than a hundred known cancer types, but the most common and prevalent ones should be lung cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, pancreatic cancer, and so on.”

Lu Jiu smiled slightly and said, “Has Dr. Song ever heard of heart cancer?”

Heart cancer?

Song Zhao was stunned!

He instinctively prepared to answer no, but felt it wasn’t rigorous enough, so he carefully thought about it. Only after ensuring that he had never heard of such a thing in both his career and school days, did Song Zhao speak, “No, I haven’t heard of the term heart cancer.”

Lu Jiu asked, “Do you know why?”

Song Zhao shook his head, “I don’t know.”

Even with those known types of cancer, ninety-nine percent of the causes are still unclear. How could he possibly know why the heart doesn’t get cancer?

Lu Jiu laughed and said, “I do have a theory, just for reference. In the system of Chinese medicine, the heart is the master organ and does not get sick itself; any illness is in the pericardium. All Western medical heart diseases are almost related to cardiovascular or pericardial issues, not the heart itself.”

“This is also where there’s a discrepancy between Chinese and Western medicine’s understanding of organs. For example, the spleen in Chinese medicine and the spleen in Western medicine have the same name but completely different concepts. We not only consider the actual organ but also its function, so when food enters the mouth and is moistened and digested with saliva, we see it as led by the spleen. When food enters the stomach and then the duodenum, and bile and pancreatic juices are involved in the digestion process, it is also referred to as the spleen.”

“Thus, the heart we refer to is not a substantial organ, which might be hard for you to understand. But it’s okay; just listen without delving too deeply.”

“See, I’ll use this beef hotpot in front of us as an example. Just now, I turned down the heat, is there a layer of red oil on the surface of the pot? This oil coagulates on the surface due to the lower temperature, doesn’t it? In Chinese medicine, all cancers are seen as a build-up of cold and dampness, the most typical being uremia patients whose abdomen swells like a drum, filled with water that can’t be expelled, and their muscles, when pressed, stay indented without rebounding.”

“If we compare this pot to our whole body, the oil on the surface would be the cancer cells, and the stove below the pot is our heart. When the fire in the stove is hot enough, the oil will vaporize and dissipate into the air, but if the fire in the stove is low, the surface of the pot cools, and the oil sticks to it. See, no matter how I use the chopsticks to clean it, it still sticks.”

Hu Yaoyuan suddenly had some understanding, “Dr. Lu, you mean…”

Lu Jiu snapped his fingers, “Exactly, each of our hearts is the nemesis of cancer. The heart is fire; even if it’s weak, cancer cells don’t dare to approach it, otherwise, they face self-immolation. This is why the heart doesn’t get cancer.”

The heart is the nemesis of cancer!

The two, upon hearing this theory, fell into deep thought.

It must be said that this theory indeed refreshed their understanding of the heart.

But, how is this related to chemo and radiotherapy?

Before they could ask, Lu Jiu continued, “I know that your current methods for dealing with cancer are radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and surgery. But if radiotherapy and chemotherapy could make a patient’s hands and feet warm, improve appetite and sleep, and allow the heart to return to normal, I would wholeheartedly support such medical means. However, clinically, there’s not a single case where a patient is healthy after radiotherapy and chemotherapy; their hearts, kidneys, and livers all suffer varying degrees of damage.”

“Let me ask, cancer slowly destroys a patient’s body, so why is it that as a ’medical treatment,’ it can damage the patient more severely in a short period than cancer itself? It’s like this hot pot: I’m eating, and the pot is boiling, and you suddenly rush in saying there’s too much oil and it needs to be removed before eating. So you pour dish detergent into it, and yes, the oil is indeed dissolved, but what about the pot? Is it still edible?”

“Dr. Song, Dr. Hu, my analogy might not be very apt, but I personally see treating the patient’s body as a battlefield against viruses as inappropriate. Hmm… that’s all I have to say; if I was out of line, I hope you both forgive me.”

Hu Yaoyuan and Song Zhao exchanged glances and couldn’t help but smile wryly.

Indeed, as Western doctors, hearing Lu Jiu’s remarks was uncomfortable for them.

But what Lu Jiu said about cancer patients after radiotherapy and chemotherapy not being like normal humans post-surgery is indeed a fact.

However, these are considered a normal side effect response of treatment in their eyes, and many patients can also live like normal people after a period of recovery, at most needing medication control, nothing more.

“Dr. Lu, come on, let’s have a toast, we’re here to learn, and it’s okay to speak freely. But hearing so much from you, it seems like cancer is not entirely unsolvable in Chinese medicine. Do you know how to treat it?” Hu Yaoyuan asked.

Lu Jiu clinked glasses with them, drinking boiled water, “Treating it is simple!”

As he finished speaking, Lu Jiu turned the gas valve on the beef hot pot to its maximum. The next moment, the hot pot started to boil, the broth in the middle became scalding hot, and the layer of red oil on top turned into steam and gradually rose in the heat.

“Our body has three fires: one in the heart, one in the small intestine, and the other is the true fire of the Gate of Life. The Heart Fire is in the upper burner, which is the chest area, while the small intestine and the true fire of the Gate of Life are in the lower burner, or near the kidneys.”

“The fire of the small intestine originates from the heart. Once the Heart Fire is insufficient, the temperature of the small intestine will also decrease, its motility frequency will reduce, causing the Spleen and Stomach, liver and kidneys to easily accumulate cold and dampness. If we intake excess nutritious food during this time and the Spleen and Stomach cannot process it well, it will accumulate a large amount of cold and dampness in the lower burner.”

“Excess cold in the lower burner will hurt the true fire of the Gate of Life, weakening both the small intestine and the Gate of Life’s two fires. You both must have burnt wood before. If the firewood at the bottom is wet, no matter how you light it from the top, it won’t catch fire because cold and dampness naturally seep downwards. Only by igniting from below can the fire rise and light even the damp firewood on top, following the law of nature that fire rises, just like the human body.”

“When our bodies are too cold and damp, they create invisible barriers that obstruct normal energy circulation, making the lower burner like the lowest firewood in the pile. By boosting the true fire of the Gate of Life and the small intestine’s fire, the fire force can be conducted upwards to the heart, allowing the heart and kidneys to interact, unblocking the Heart Fire and small intestine pathways from cold and dampness. Once normal circulation resumes, the body’s environment will become warm and eventually make it unsuitable for cold and damp to survive.”

“Regardless of the cancer cells’ traits, they initially arose because of changes in the patient’s internal environment. Therefore, once the internal environment becomes unsuitable for them, they will naturally weaken or disappear. So, treating cancer with Chinese medicine isn’t about buying insecticide but opening doors and windows to let sunlight in, thoroughly changing the room’s temperature and environment so that cockroaches and mice leave on their own.”

It’s abstract, yet somehow very logical.

Hu Yaoyuan and Song Zhao didn’t quite understand what the lower burner or the true fire of the Gate of Life is.

But what Lu Jiu said about following the natural principles did seem to make sense.

“Hey? Dr. Lu, is it possible that Chinese medicine changes the patient’s body environment while Western medicine uses insecticide to kill pests? Wouldn’t that be faster?” Hu Yaoyuan asked.

Lu Jiu couldn’t help but laugh, “Dr. Hu, your idea is good, but such integrated Chinese and Western methods have been attempted by many Western hospitals in Jinling, and the effect is quite average.”

Curious, Hu Yaoyuan asked, “Why?”

Lu Jiu replied, “Because this integration prioritizes attack over defense. Western medicine leads the attack by using targeted drugs to kill cancer cells, then asks traditional Chinese medicine to regulate the patient’s Five Viscera. Initially, it works well, but it becomes ineffective later because the more you attack, the stronger the cancer cells’ resistance becomes, making it harder to regulate the patient’s body until Chinese medicine can’t adjust it anymore, and the patient can’t endure it, thus ending the treatment.”

Hu Yaoyuan frowned, “Can’t we regulate the patient’s body with Chinese medicine first, then use radiotherapy and chemotherapy to attack?”

Lu Jiu looked strangely at Hu Yaoyuan, “Dr. Hu, saying this might get you expelled from the Western medical community in Jinling, don’t you know? Currently, if traditional Chinese medicine could play the leading role in critical diseases, it would indeed be a miracle.”

Hu Yaoyuan immediately realized the issue and showed a rather helpless expression.

“Dr. Lu, may I ask one last question? If I have some cancer patients from the hospital seek your help, would you accept them?”

Song Zhao, who hadn’t said much earlier, couldn’t help but ask this after listening to Lu Jiu’s cancer treatment methods.

These words left Lu Jiu looking utterly surprised…

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