Chinese herbs vary according to the body needs at different stages. Experienced herbal practitioners are able to determine when and how an herbal formula needs some adjustment or modification. For cancer patients, there is a greater urgency to constantly regulate the herbal formula as the disease evolves because of the limited time the patients may have and the rapidity of change the body may undergo in the disease process. Weekly adjustment of herbal formula for the first 2 to 3 months was essential for fast achieving clinical effects. As cancer condition and symptoms are better under control, the goal is to maintain the clinical effects. Then the formulas are not so often changed.

Cancer patients often suffer from cold and flu due to lowered immune function and body resistance against diseases. At these times, the herbal formulas are completely different. Patients usually take 2-3 cups of herbal tea each day. Some herbs have bitter taste or unpleasant smell, but patients can grown accustomed to it. The faster and better clinical effects from the raw herbs over that of the capsuled herbal extracts also make raw herbal formulas the commonest and authoritative means of herbal therapy in China today especially for cancer people.

Herbs used are completely different from western medicine. Yet both are effective for prostate cancer, a classical example of "A single disease may be treated by different formulas; and different diseases may be treated by a single formula." Chinese medicine puts emphasis on differential treatment based on individual constitution. For many other prostate cancer patients, their Yin and Yang levels may be quite different. Herbal doctors use different formulas to most effectively treat various patients of a same disease. This flexibility reveals remarkable strength of Chinese herbal formulas to deal with different demands of our bodies in health and diseases.

Another great value of Chinese herb medicine is its noted lack of side-effects. Unlike western drugs, Chinese herbs have the highest safety rate and lowest side-effects. Over thousands of years the Chinese learned to use different herbs in a formula to minimize the unwanted effects. The formulas gauged for prostate cancer are safe, stable, and without side-effects.

Now western medicine has rediscovered the value of a single ancient remedy for prostate cancer. It still has a long way to go before the full value of entire Chinese herb medicine is adequately recognized. There are no less than 10,000 Chinese formulas used to treat the whole spectrum of human health and disease. westerner can be benefitted enormously from this huge treasure from Chinese medicine.