Philosophical Reflections on Chinese Naturopathy against Malignant Tumours

How to recognize the pathogenesis of cancer and how to treat cancer? This involves the "epistemology" and "methodology" of medical philosophy. With the arrival of the global aging society, and after the Covid-19 Pandemic, cancer has become a common and frequent disease. Western medicine mainly adopts surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy and other "allopathic therapies" for the treatment of lung, stomach and breast cancers; however, such traumatic therapies will lead to a further decline in the immune function of the patients, and at the same time of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, a new ecological environment for the metastasis and recurrence of the cancer cells has already been created. These represent main reasons why it has been difficult to improve the survival rate of cancer patients with more than 5 years in middle and late stage lung cancer, stomach cancer and other cancers. However, patients and the financing institutions, like national health insurance systems, have to bear expensive healthcare expenses for this purpose.Especially in developing countries, many cancer patients "become poor because of cancer", and most of the middle- and late-stage cancer patients end up with "two empty pockets". Thus, the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of cancer has become a public health issue of global concern and a serious social issue. This is the purpose of writing this article after analyzing the pros and cons of the current "allopathic" cancer treatment model - how to analyze the pathogenesis of cancer applying the philosophical concept of Chinese naturopathy and put forward the Chinese naturopathic "Trinity" cancer treatment model. This approach is in line with the "bio-psycho-social" healthcare model advocated by the World Health Organization, so that more cancer patients can benefit from a holistic treatment process.