Traditional Chinese non-drug therapies for cancer pain treatment

TMR Integrative Medicine

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Xun Liu¹  Zhu Yang¹  Feng-Xi Long¹  Jin-Lin Wu¹  Dong-Xin Tang¹ 

[1] Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine;Guizhou Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Tumor Inheritance and Technology Innovation Talent Base

关键词: Cancer pain;    Three step pain relief;    Chinese medicine;    Non-drug therapy;    Advantage;    Acupuncture and massage catgut embedding;   

DOI  :  10.12032/TMRIM201903017

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: TMR publishing group

【 摘 要 】

Cancer pain is the most common and serious symptom of cancer, which seriously affects the quality of life of cancer patients. the most widely used three-step analgesia has received good effects, but the toxic sideeffects at the same time can be ignored. As a complementary therapy increasingly accepted around the world, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) also plays an important role in cancer pain treatment. Traditional Chinese non-drug therapy has a good effect for cancer pain. In this mini-review, the commonly used traditional Chinese non-drug therapies such as acupuncture, moxibustion, acupoint catgut embedding and injection, massage, ear point pressing with coxherb seeds therapy, traditional musictherapy were introduced.

【 授权许可】

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