General Activities
resolve masses, disperse blood and regulate qi
Sample Indications for Use
tumours, abscesses
To Personalise,
Add Belamcanda 15 for lung tumours Blue Citrus Tablets for breast tumours Sparganium
12, Turtle Shell Tablets, or Lindera 15 for uterine tumours and endometriosis
Forsythia 18 for carbuncles and other skin eruptions Laminaria 4 or Scrophularia
12 for soft tumours Paris 7 for metastasized tumours Zedoaria Tablets for hard
masses The duration of therapy depends on numerous factors, especially other
methods used and the results attained, and may range from a few weeks to several
months.
Manufacturing Specifications
Crude herbs of the formula specified here are powdered, and combined with additional
extracts of curcuma, agrimony, and subprostrata, then formed into 750 mg tablets.
Bottling of 100 or 250 tablets.
Explanatory Notes
This formula was inspired by the Chinese cancer specialist Jia Kun, who wrote
the book “Prevention and Treatment of Carcinoma with Traditional Chinese Medicine”.
In that book, he advocated use of a formula called Pingxiao Dan for treating
most cancers, to be used along with other formulas according to the cancer type.
The first three ingredients of Chih ko/Curcuma are key ingredients of Pingxiao
Dan. The original Pingxiao Dan contains some ingredients that are potentially
dangerous, including niter, alum, and strychnos. Therefore, these have been
deleted and replaced by other herbs that Jia Kun commonly used as adjuncts to
Pingxiao Dan in treating tumours. This formula is typical of mass-reducing prescriptions,
with herbs that resolve phlegm masses (gleditsia spine, oyster shell) and herbs
that resolve static blood (myrrh, frankincense), as well as herbs that eliminate
toxins (lonicera, subprostrata). The dosage of Pingxiao Dan recommended by Jia
Kun was usually 4.5 grams/day, which would correspond to about 6 tablets per
day of the Seven Forests formula; however, because he included some strong toxic
ingredients that are not in this tablet, a higher dosage is recommended for
many cases, ranging from 6-18 tablets per day. Jia Kun mainly recommended high
dosage decoctions to go with Pingxiao Dan, and he treated patients who were
not undergoing simultaneous chemotherapy. Chih ko/Curcuma should not be used
as an alternative to modern cancer therapies, it may be used for cases not amenable
to treatment or while awaiting treatment to commence and for pre-cancerous conditions,
such as cervical dysplasia.
Ingredients
Chih ko, Curcuma, Agrimony, Gleditsia spine, Myrrh, Fritillaria, Lonicera, Arca
shell, Oyster shell, Sargassum, Inula flower, Prunella, Subprostrata Pin Yin
zhike, yujin, xianhecao, zaojioci, moyao, zhebeimu, jinyinhua, walengzi, muli,
haizao, xuanfhua, xiakucao, shandougen