What was the definition of cancer in ancient China? Cancer is said by western medicine, but what does Chinese medicine say?

Cancer is the viewpoint of western medicine, which refers to modern medicine correctly. Although the word cancer comes from our Chinese, it is a general term used after medical translation. In fact, cancer does not exist now. In fact, it existed in ancient times, but these diseases in ancient times were not called cancer, but had other names. Cancer is actually a general term for all kinds of malignant tumors by modern people. The name of cancer in ancient Chinese medicine is more detailed, so it can be said that there is no general term for cancer at present.

There are many kinds of cancer, but now people think that no matter how many kinds, as long as they are incurable serious diseases, most of them are planned into the category of cancer. Not everyone is like this, but most of them are. Cancer is basically incurable, and only a few people are lucky enough to be cured, but this cure is too special to be truly replicated. Since ancient times, cancer has never been treated too prominently.

So what did China call these cancers in ancient times? In fact, it is recorded in Neijing, such as intestinal stagnation, stone carbuncle and septum. This is a record of some cancers, such as abscess, stone carbuncle, stone carbuncle, and what follows, such as disgrace, stone carbuncle and kidney calculi.

There is such a description in Wei Ji Bao Shu in the Song Dynasty, which clearly describes the causes. It is described as exogenous six evils (wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire), internal injuries caused by seven emotions (joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and shock), and food and fatigue lead to imbalance of yin and yang and qi stagnation.

In fact, China ancient medicine has certain anatomical ability. Anatomy is not unique to western medicine. In fact, our Chinese medicine practitioners did it as early as 1000 years ago, but our descendants didn't know that western medicine became the mainstream, so surgical anatomy was considered as a unique initiative of western medicine. In fact, in the past, there were many acts of anatomy in traditional Chinese medicine, and the knowledge of cancer and tumor was acquired through touch and anatomy. The words "rock" and "stone" in China TCM actually describe the tumor vividly, which means that the disease is as stubborn as a stone and is used as an image metaphor for cancer.