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 different 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 method 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 he told the reporter that he will always be a doctor and will never forget his mission.