—A TCM professional, “Bold Xie”
(By senior reporter, Gu Chuanmin)
Xie Jizeng is famous as a TCM professional both at home and abroad. But why “Bold Xie”? What’s his story? That’s what I have to find out. When I met Xie Jizeng, I couldn’t help but wondering how this man full of health and energy could have already passed sixty.
Then, let’s start with the nickname “Bold Xie”.
A great cancer professional from the army
Xie Jizeng was born in a well-known family of TCM. He served in the army for 41 years. In 1963, Xie dropped out of school because of poverty and started to his TCM career after his uncle. But TCM is a broad and profound science. Its classic medical and medicinal theories are all written in ancient languages, and are very difficult to understand. For Xie Jizeng who just had a primary school education, it was even harder to comprehend, however, for Xie Jizeng, the harder the better. For years, with the help of dictionaries, he has read a great amount of books and memorized many recipes and prescriptions. As to hereditary diagnosing method “Three signs, Four touches and Two lines” and acupuncture and moxibustion, he could understand fast and make them his own skills. After five years of step by step study and practicing, he became a famous barefoot doctor of the village.
In 1986, as an ardent youth, he joined the army filled with desire of serving his country. At that time, camping and field training were quite often in the army. After miles of marching without water, many solders got so thirsty and even fainted in the march. Xie Jizeng compounded several medicinal herbs that helps produce saliva and slakes thirst, suppresses Yang and releases dryness, and made into thirsty suppressing boluses. With just one bolus, a solder never get thirsty in the marching. The chief of the military district values his ability and appointed him leader of the cancer research group of the army. Since then, he dived into his research with a diligent and consisting heart.
Xie is an attentive but bold man with diligent thinking. When he was in the research group, he met a patient diagnosed with breast cancer. The tumor developed into a cauliflower-like ulcer, accompanied with hypertension and heart disease. Many hospitals flinched. The patient had lost hope. But Xie contacted the patient’s family and claimed to treat her for free. After the first prescription, nothing better happened; instead, the ulcer got worse accompanied with evil smelling. It made the patient and her family very upset. But Xie was not going to give up. An idea began to take shape in his mind, which enhanced his visibility from his profession. He remembered a rank poison in Compendium of Materia Medica—white arsenic. It is recorded in the book as a medicine exclusively used for nameless swelling poison, but few people dare to try. Xie is also familiar with a theory in TCM prescription “Sovereign, Minister, Assistant, Courier”, indicating that reasonable prescription proportion of simple drugs can produce unexpected effect. So, why not try preparing white arsenic with other drugs that can eliminate the poison of white arsenic? He started his experiment on his own body, and developed a new prescription. Then, just after one week of therapy, the ulcer stopped getting worse. After one month of therapy, the ulcer started to shrink. After two month of therapy, the swelling mass of the tumor exfoliated. Xie made it. It was a breakthrough of his medical research.
Xie is never tied down by ancient medicine. Just like he said “if you believe everything you read, better not read”. He believes that the best way to learn ancient medicine is to carry it forward and develop the spirit, but not tied down. For those who only use the old prescriptions and never make a change, he thinks they will never make a success. Once, he met a patient called Fu Yulian who was diagnosed of advanced stage of liver cancer by isotope imagination. It was predicated by hospital that she had only three months to live. When the patient contacted Xie having lost the hope to live, Xie started her therapy with borax as a principle agent. As recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica, borax is mainly used for upper burned and phlegm hot, dysphagia and palpatable abdominal mass, and borax is also compatible white arsenic. As recorded in Pharmacopeia, borax dosage cannot exceed 3 g. To find out the best dosage and maximum applicable amount, he started again his experiment on his own body. He started with a 3g initial dosage to 8g, that’s when he encountered severe reaction of nausea and vomiting. Then he focused on eliminating side effects through finding the best drug proportion. After repeated researches and validation, he used 12g of borax in Fu Yulian’s prescription. It was not long after she took the medicine before she started vomiting linear phlegm. Xie observed the symptoms carefully and adjusted the dosage little by little. Then Fu started to get better and went back to normal. After six months of therapy, she was discharged of the hospital. This success strengthened his belief: Dosage is important to stop the disease from getting worse. With inappropriate medicine dosage, it is impossible to eliminating stagnation, clearing heat from the head or removing blood stasis, which will in the end cause serious consequences. That’s when “bold Xie” became his nickname.
Xie Jizeng: Make the incurable disease curable
After thirty years of cancer research, Xie finally invented “Qibei lung protecting granules”. This medicine is produced through screening some 100 precious anticancer Chinese medicines, following the instruction of “Sovereign, Minister, Assistant, Courier” theory. It can not only suppress cancer cell growth and cell metastasis, and kill cancer cell, but also deteriorate cancer gene and differentiated cells. This drug is also effective in clearing poison and suppressing cancer, activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis, softening hard lumps and dispelling nodes, relieving cough and asthma, and supporting healthy energy to eliminate evils.
On May 09, 1995, a report by Guangming Daily entitled “A gleam of light in the dark kingdom” was published on the front page, likening the success of Xie as the candle of light and hope in the dark kingdom of cancer. The report described vividly the successful cases of gastric cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer and bladder cancer. At that time, Xie was already a famous doctor and became the focus of many media for his cancer fighting achievements.
On Oct. 15 1996, as reported by China Education Daily, Xie Jizeng’s original medicine “magic lung pellets” gained an overall response rate of 91% in the lung cancer therapy of 200 middle and advanced lung cancer patients; his series drug “soft gelatin capsule for leukemia, pellets for stagnation eliminating, pellets for reproduction, and pellets for promoting blood flow” gained a overall response rate of 82% in leukemia therapy. And what’s more, Xie Jizeng’s clinical therapy response rate and recovery rate occupied a leading position in the treatment of esophagus cancer, liver cancer, pancreas cancer, bladder cancer and breast cancer.
Well, just at the same year, Xie retired from the army as a deputy division commander and became the director of Jian An hospital in Beijing Chongwen district. Since then, the phone numbers: 67025447, 67011391 had became the only hope for patients with incurable diseases.
He was hired the visiting professor by Institute of World Traditional Medicine and was awarded the doctorship. Xie Jizeng’s achievements also attracted great attentions from Media abroad. On Dec. 02 1997, Wenhui Daily published a whole page report entitled “Pride of the army, Doctor of a generation”, covering a detailed description of Xie Jizeng’s medicinal career. The report highly praised the pioneering work by Xie in cancer, diabetes and stubborn disease research.
The opening of a new era of TCM physical examination for cancer
Having passed the age of sixty, director Xie Jizeng is now still marching on the road of TCM research on cancer therapy. Just like he said, he will always be a doctor, and he will never forget his mission—to help to release his patients from suffering in the remaining of his lifetime.
Now, based on his years of practical experience and research, he brought about a new diagnosing method for cancer—TCM physical examination. He told the reporter “Diagnosing can cost much of the best time for cancer therapy. What’s necessary for us medical workers is to find out how cancer happens and develops, to put more time and energy on cancer therapy and to provide more scientific evidence for cancer therapy.” At present, there are not at all enough researchers working on early diagnosing of cancer. For cancer confirmation, clinical diagnosing is still based on old TCM detection methods—Four Examinations and Comprehensive Analysis. Concise and clear diagnosis is essential for clinical treatment. However, differences between Hot and Cold Syndromes and between Deficiency and Excess Syndromes are so small that even the smallest mistake can result in totally opposite diagnosis and therapy. So, diagnosing has to be more objective besides using Four Examinations. With the help of his mentor and through his own repeated validation, director Xie summarized three medical detection methods—“three signs, four touches and two lines”. Three signs includes tongue sign, cheek and teeth sign, and toenail sign. Four touches includes detect the tenderness in auricular cartilage nodule, gastric cavity, umbilicus left and instep, in which nodule reflexes the existence, shade and location of Qi and blood stasis. Two lines provide evidence for diagnosis of esophageal carcinoma and gastric cancer with differentiation of syndromes and signs like stagnation of QI due to depression of the liver, splenic asthenia and gastric cold. The three methods mentioned above are objective, concise and clear, and are conformed to Four Examinations. The application of these methods greatly improved the effectiveness of diagnosing and medical treatment. They are feasible in syndrome differentiation and in distinguishing of body condition, Cold or Hot, and their inter-transformation, or faked Cold and faked Hot, or Cold transformed Hot, or up-Hot and down-Cold. These three methods provide a fundamental basis for clinical diagnosis and medication.
The founding of TCM physical examination wins favorable comments from many cancer experts. They think this imethod can best show the broadness and profoundness of TCM. TCM physical examination opened a new era for cancer examination. It is a great achievement and will be of significant help to the increasing lung cancer incidence. There is no doubt that Xie Jizeng has succeeded, but it’s never his final destination. Just like what he told the reporter that he will be always be a doctor and will never forget his mission.
