August 17, 2006:

                                         The treatment of stomach (gastric) cancer

    The only medicine meeting these criteria is Ping Xiao Pian. Unlike conventional or Western chemotherapeutic compounds whose side effects can be as fatal as death, Ping Xiao Pian has no side effects and is the only Chinese medicine proven relatively effective by extensive clinical trials:

    Ping Xiao Pian( ping shiao tablets): first synthesized in China in 1958 by the Director of the Sei Shi Chinese Medicine Research Institute. Clinical trials and in vitro experiments showed it to enhance immune response and inhibit cancer growth. Its success rate against lung, stomach, esophageal and bone cancer is 64.5%. There were in 1988 still survivors of osteosarcoma 27 years after metastasis to the lungs, and of lung cancer 21 and 24 years after using ping shiao tablets without surgery or any other types of treatment. In 1985 ping shiao tablets won the second place prize given by the Chinese People's Liberation Army for Science and Technology achievement, and in 1986 received the Sei Shi Province's Prize for Excellent Products. (Source: Dr. Huei Guan Chen, Chen's Acupuncture & Herbs, Toronto, in Canadian Chinese Daily, August 13, 1988, p7: the original full text).

13/10/2007:  A few others that should be concurrently used are listed  here.

Re. Ping xiao pian (Ping Xiao Dan)

The Treatment of Gastro-intestinal Cancers with Chinese Medicine

by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon

Full text at http://www.itmonline.org/arts/gicancer.htm

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Brief excerpt here: "One of the best known herbal combinations for gastro-intestinal cancers is called Ping Xiao Dan, . . . . Trials in eight Chinese clinical institutes from 1958 through 1986 showed that its use increased survival rates and promoted tumor regression in cancer patients suffering from several different types of cancer. . . . mainly been used in treating cancers of the esophagus, large intestine, lung, liver, breast, and kidney.

Jia Kun . . .recommends that 4.5-9.0 grams of the formula be taken each day, and that a prophylactic course of Ping Xiao Dan be taken every six months; 4.5-6.0 grams per day for one week-- especially important for those who previously suffered from cancer, but it is also suggested to be a useful cancer preventive for otherwise healthy individuals (5).

Jia Kun and his colleagues at the Shanxi Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine published a report in 1984 (9) summarizing the results of treating patients with malignant tumors for three months or more using Ping Xiao Dan. Response to treatment was rated markedly effective if the main symptoms were eliminated or greatly reduced and if the tumor mass was shrunk by at least half (and did not progress again during the next three to six months); it was rated as effective if there were some symptom improvements and there was a little shrinkage of the tumor or at least no further growth of the tumor mass. For five tumor types-lung, liver, esophagus, stomach, and bone--- the results were essentially the same. The treatment was markedly effective in 11.3%-16.7% of the patients treated and effective for 44.4%-58.3% of the cases. In other words, Ping Xiao Dan was able to halt tumor growth in about 2/3 of the cases and was able to substantially shrink the tumor in about 1/7 of the cases.

In general clinical practice, Ping Xiao Dan is rarely given as a sole remedy for cancer. In China, it may be used along with high dosage herb decoctions; in America, dried decoctions-in the form of convenient extract granules-or tableted herb combinations are often used instead.

Duration of treatment is highly individualistic. . . In one representative example, he tracks a patient's progress through 61 visits to the clinic, over a period of about 8 months (he went to the clinic twice per week). At each visit, slight modifications were made to the formula that he was taking in the form of a tea along with the consistent use of Ping Xiao Dan. At the end of eight months, his cancer tests came out negative and he was basically healthy. He was then told to continue taking an herb tea (similar to the one he had been using at his last visit). On follow-up, he was found to still be healthy and strong more than 12 years later.

DOSAGE OF HERBS

5. Jia Kun, Prevention and Treatment of Carcinoma in Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1985 The Commercial Press,           Hong Kong.

9. Jia Kun, Wang Huichuan, and Liu Bianlin, Observation of curative effects of Ping Xiao Dan in treating 180 cases of malignant tumor, Shaanxi Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 1984; 5(6): 10-11.