🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Commonly used traditional remedies and effective prescriptions are as follows.
[Formula Thirteen] 10 bitter apricot kernels, 100 ml cow's milk, 5 jujubes, 50 g rice, 10 g mulberry bark, 3 g ginger. Soak apricot kernels in water, remove skins and tips, then crush with cow's milk to extract juice; pit the jujubes, slice ginger, and set aside. First boil mulberry bark, ginger, and jujube to extract decoction, add rice to cook porridge. Just before completion, mix in apricot juice and continue cooking until porridge is ready. Take twice daily. Apricot kernels mainly contain fatty oils, proteins, various free amino acids, and amygdalin. Recent studies have found that apricot kernels exhibit preventive and inhibitory effects on multiple tumors including lung cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer. Mulberry bark contains volatile oils, glucosides, morin, and mulberrochromene. Pharmacological experiments show that mulberry bark has good antipyretic, expectorant, and anti-cough effects. Recently reported, jujubes significantly inhibit cancer cell proliferation. In this formula, apricot kernels primarily serve to relieve phlegm, stop coughing, and alleviate asthma; combined with sweet and cold mulberry bark to clear lung heat; jujubes and cow’s milk tonify middle Qi; ginger, being pungent and warm, acts as auxiliary to warm the lungs, stop coughing, and prevent excessive coldness from mulberry bark which might suppress lung Qi. The entire formula balances cold and warmth, combines tonification and purgation, collectively forming a remedy to relieve cough and asthma, tonify middle Qi, and prevent tumor growth. It can be used as an auxiliary food for patients suffering from chronic respiratory diseases, emphysema, and cor pulmonale.[Formula One] 20 g great burnet, 20 g white herb, 15 g snake fruit grass. Decoct and take once daily. This prescription originates from "Prevention and Treatment of Tumors," functions to detoxify and fight cancer, suitable for uterine body cancer.[Formula Two] 15 g Phellodendron bark, 15 g purple root, 30 g borax, 30 g calcined alum, 30 g borneol, 30 g indigo naturalis. Grind all herbs into fine powder, apply directly to affected area, or mix with vaseline to make ointment, apply externally twice daily. This prescription is from Dr. Duan Fengwu, a renowned oncologist in Beijing. Functions: clear heat, cool blood, detoxify, dry dampness—effective for cervical cancer.[Formula Three] 100 g sophora root, 100 g rhizome of peony, 100 g prunella, grind into fine powder, mix with honey to form pills, each pill weighing 9 g. Take 2–3 pills twice to three times daily. This formula clears heat and detoxifies, an effective prescription by Dr. Duan Fengning for treating cervical cancer.[Formula Four] 50–100 g horse-tail plant, 500–100 g broken bone herb. Take one dose daily, decoct and drink. This prescription originates from "Comprehensive Treatise on Cancer Therapy," functions to disperse nodules, eliminate stagnation, nourish kidneys, and support vital energy—effective for cervical cancer treatment.[Formula Five] 25 g centipede, 25 g dung beetle, 25 g earthworm, 25 g tortoise shell, 25 g whole scorpion. Dry and grind into powder, take 2.5 g each time with warm water, three times daily. This powder is toxic; if nausea or vomiting occurs, immediately consume green soybean juice. This prescription comes from "Comprehensive Treatise on Cancer Therapy," functions to break blood stasis, resolve phlegm, promote blood circulation, and dissipate nodules—suitable for cases of cervical cancer with prominent blood stasis and toxin accumulation.<Cervical Cancer>