Traditional Chinese medicine powder for treating postoperative upper limb edema of breast cancer and nursing method

Abstract

The invention discloses traditional Chinese medicine powder for treating postoperative upper limb edema of a breast cancer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes the disease is caused by injuried blood vessels and nerves to result in unsmooth qi and blood circulation, subcutaneous water flow, blood stasis and internal retention, a patient has insufficient vital qi originally, and vitality is injured by postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and the patient is incapable of promoting blood circulation to result in the blood stasis, phlegm dampness and retention, thereby causing the disease. Accordingly, the traditional Chinese medicine powder adopts begonia fimbristipula, clinacanthus nutans, a discadenoid cherry root, gynura divaricata, a dichrocephala root, clerodendrum indicum, splendid achnatherum, desmodium heterocarpon, flemingia macrophylla, a radix fici simplicissimae root, railway beggarticks herb, and primrose willow which are ground, bagged and heated for external application. Clinical trials show the powder has a total effective rate up to 93.33%, and a significant curative effect.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition, in particular to a traditional Chinese medicine powder for treating upper limb edema after breast cancer surgery. Background technique [0002] In recent years, the incidence of breast cancer in the world has shown a significant upward trend. Currently, the conventional treatment method is still mainly surgery, supplemented by various comprehensive treatment methods such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and biological targeted therapy. Surgery is an invasive treatment, and radical mastectomy has a large wound, so it is very easy to have a variety of complications leading to upper limb dysfunction after surgery, the more common ones include skin flap necrosis, lymphatic leakage, subcutaneous effusion, Upper extremity edema, etc. [0003] Upper extremity lymphedema is one of the serious long-term complications after axillary lymphadenectomy for breast cancer. Patients ...

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Another study showed that upper extremity lymphedema is an important independent predictor of quality of life decline in breast cancer patients, and because lymphedema is a slowly progressive and incurable disease, it has brought great impact on the lives of patients because of its protracted and repeated course. Great inconvenience, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients after breast cancer surgery

[0004] At present, there is no clear and effective method in western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine has great advantages in treating postoperative edema of breast cancer and has wide applicability, especially in terms of external treatment.