I have been engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases for more than 40 years. In the treatment of hepatitis B, I have always adopted traditional methods such as removing dampness, killing toxins, protecting the liver, strengthening the spleen, and harmonizing the stomach. Although the condition of the patients has been controlled and their symptoms disappeared, it is difficult to achieve a complete cure and total negativity. Over the years, I have seen many young patients with liver disease whose conditions have recurred, leading to cirrhosis and ascites at a young age and making them difficult to treat. This often keeps me awake at night!
In the winter of 2001, several young people from my village went out to work. Because they were found to carry the hepatitis B virus, they could not enter the factory in Guangzhou to work and had no choice but to return home. Upon hospital examination, they were diagnosed with either "big three positives" or "small three positives." Due to their limited financial conditions and lack of obvious symptoms, they did not receive treatment in the hospital. During the Spring Festival, two of these children felt unwell and weak. Their parents came to my house asking me to treat them with Chinese herbal medicine.
I used traditional Chinese medical therapy and also referred to the folk prescriptions of experienced rural Chinese doctors. I boldly used animal-based greasy drugs such as black snake, bufotoxin, earthworm, gecko, and centipede (before this, I often used black snake and bufotoxin to treat other viral diseases in patients). After a period of treatment, the two children felt that their symptoms disappeared, so they went to the hospital for testing. The results showed that one child's DNA turned negative, and at the same time, the E antigen turned negative. Another child's DNA also turned negative, but he was still "small three positive." This situation strengthened my determination to study the use of animal-based greasy drugs to eliminate the hepatitis B virus. I then increased the dosage of animal-based drugs such as black snake and bufotoxin and continued their use. At the same time, I used the same drugs and methods to treat different types of hepatitis B patients who came seeking medical help. However, during the treatment process, some patients experienced nausea and irritability. Therefore, I added herbs for harmonizing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, nourishing blood, and calming the spirit to the prescription, eliminating the adverse reactions of the patients. After half a year of treatment, the "two pairs and a half" test and DNA of the patients successively turned negative.
The reason why hepatitis B is difficult to treat lies in the fact that after specific viral infections invade the human body, they parasitize and reproduce inside the cells. Since general Chinese herbal water solutions cannot mix with the greasy components of cells, it is difficult for them to deactivate viruses inside the cells. Subsequently, due to the increasing number of patients seeking medical help, it provided favorable conditions for this research. I divided the patients into three types: "virus carriers," "chronic active type," and "cirrhosis with ascites" for differentiated treatment. For the treatment of virus carriers, the primary focus is on eradicating the virus, supplemented by processed Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, and chicken gizzard. For the treatment of chronic active hepatitis patients, both detoxification and tonifying are emphasized. Considering that these patients often experience enlarged liver and spleen, liver area pain, abnormal liver function, loss of appetite, and fatigue, I added ginseng, softshell turtle shell, chicken gizzard, blood-activating herb, wolfberry, stone ear, and Bupleurum to the prescription. For the treatment of cirrhosis with ascites patients, based on the theory of five types of treatment, methods mainly involving nourishing yin, promoting diuresis, resolving stasis, softening the liver, strengthening the spleen, and regulating the kidneys are adopted. Clinically, according to specific symptoms, appropriate use of pangolin scales, earthworms, calabash, dried crickets, safflower, and pennywort is made, thereby improving the targeting of treatment and eliminating the adverse reactions caused by medication in patients.