This is the story of a thyroid tumor patient’s self-reported TCM treatment.
On November 7, 2021, when I was washing up in the morning, I found a protruding piece on the left side of my neck, and I felt a foreign body when I pressed it with my hand, which was round, smooth and hard. I personally suspected a thyroid nodule mass, because I had been thinking too much and staying up late with anger continuously some time ago.
The symptoms are as follows.
Foreign body feeling in the throat, can’t swallow, can’t spit out, this symptom has been intermittent for three years, although not serious, but stretched. Belching often, fear of cold in the stomach and spleen, cold hands and feet, moodiness, and a very low menstrual flow in November.
Thyroid tumor-before.
So I prescribed myself Six Jun Zi Tang plus Ban Xia Hou Po Tang with Cat’s Claw Herb and Xia Ku Cao. The doctor said it was suspected to be a thyroid nodule and asked me to go to the hospital to have an ultrasound done to confirm it. I didn’t have an ultrasound done because I was already sure it was this disease and didn’t think it was necessary to have an ultrasound done because ultrasound is only used for diagnosis.
I just picked up the herbs at Tong Ren Tang, and after a few days of drinking this formula, the symptoms of cold and fire appeared, so I temporarily stopped taking the medicine. After a few days, I took it again, and this time I drank it for 3-4 days, but I had a cold and fire again, so I had to stop taking it again, thinking it was not right.
I found that the lump on the left side of my neck was getting bigger and harder, and it looked very obvious by naked eyes, because I only learned 20 lessons from the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine in my course, so I was not knowledgeable about the prescriptions, medicinal properties and dosage, and I only knew that acupuncture could also treat it, but some points were inconvenient for me to put needles on myself, and some points were too scared to acupuncture so I gave up the idea of acupuncture.
On December 8, I sought the help of Master Guo and described my previous prescriptions and symptoms one by one, the specific symptoms are as follows.
There is a lump on the left side of the neck, sized like a walnut, sore and swollen when pressed, moving up and down when swallowing, touching it hard, feeling something blocked in the throat.
Tongue coating: yellow in the morning and white during the day.
Appetite is not good, night sweats are severe, and there are green veins on the legs.
I feel that my voice is more hoarse than before, with cold symptoms, fear of wind, clear and yellow nasal discharge and sneezing.
Sometimes the heart will thump a few times, easily irritable and irritable, belching, dry mouth and bitter mouth.
Bad sleep, dreaming a lot, dreaming of being chased, running, and climbing uphill… waking up very tired.
Right abdomen is feeling something hard, I personally feel it like a cluster of gas.
Eyes are easily sore and blurred.
Master Guo diagnosed the symptoms and gave me a prescription for 7 doses. I went to get the medicine that day and boiled it in a casserole. I had one bowel movement after 11:30 pm, a watery stool, and my stomach was not uncomfortable. After that, I went to bed and slept well that night, my night sweats were much reduced, I don’t remember if I dreamed or not, and my dry mouth and bitterness were much reduced the next morning.
After 7 doses of medicine, the lump on the left side of the neck was much smaller, about two-thirds of it had disappeared, sleep was normal at night, fear of wind was reduced, night sweats did not occur, the right abdomen became softer (I felt that my stomach had never been so soft), but there was still phlegm stuck, sometimes it could be vomited out, sometimes it could not, loose stools, poor appetite, easily sleepy, poor mental state.
Master Guo adjusted the prescription and used 5 doses.
After 5 doses of medicine, the appetite returned to normal, the lump could not be seen from the outside and became very small, about the size of peanut rice when touched by hand, the night sweats were completely gone, the sleep was normal, the mental state returned to normal, the blurred eyes and the acidity disappeared, but the tiredness and pain in the calf belly were still present when waking up.
The prescription was adjusted by Master Guo, and 7 doses were used.
This time, after a delay of three or four days for some reasons, I stopped taking the medicine for more than 10 days due to the onset of menstruation, and finished the 7 doses of medicine on January 14, and the lump on the left side of the neck was only a little bit left, which could not be touched without careful touching, but could be touched about the size of a green bean by careful touching, along with the white phlegm spitting out, and felt that the green bean-sized lump was slowly decreasing, and at present, except for the tiredness and swelling of the calf belly after waking up and having phlegm spitting out, there was no more discomfort.
Finally, I was given a prescription to solve the calf and knee problem by Master Guo, with 5 doses, and I will give feedback after I finish the medicine.
Though: I was ill this time, I was fortunate to have gained something from it. In the past, I would have been apprehensive and scared, but not this time, because I was sure that Chinese medicine could solve my problems.
During this period, my husband has always been supportive of my choice and did not say anything about going to the hospital for examination and treatment or surgery, because he understands that the first solution that the hospital provides is removal.
I was fortunate to meet Master Guo, who had a clear idea of diagnosis and precise medication, and gave me great confidence and courage during the treatment.I truly felt that TCM is not a slow doctor, as long as the diagnosis is correct, the treatment is very fast.
I’m grateful to have met TCM, and grateful to have met Master Guo. At the same time, because of my lazy learning, I’ve just started to catch up with the progress of the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine in the past few days, but my own illness has laid a solid foundation for me to learn TCM.
As for you, TCM enthusiasts, how do you prescribe a prescription based on the symptoms described by the patient? Welcome to leave a message in the comments section, more thinking, more progress.