Chinese medicine treatment for advanced lung cancer mostly focuses on warming yang, improving the patient's internal environment and immunity to realize survival with tumor under the condition of improving cancer status body, the specific principles of Chinese medicine treatment are as follows:

1.Determine the use of medicine according to the patient's condition. Clinical research shows that: deficiency of qi and yin, toxicity and stasis are the main features in the pathogenesis of lung cancer, therefore, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, resolving stasis and removing toxins are the basic methods of clinical treatment for lung cancer. The Chinese medicines such as Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Asparagus, Ophiopogonis, Schisandrae chinensis etc. are used in the formula;

2. Identify the patient's physique and add or subtract according to the symptom. For example, if the patient has deficiency in qi and blood, add chickweed vine, bone marrow, angelica, etc.

3. Combination of dialectical evidence and disease identification. In middle and late stage lung cancer, the situation of deficiency and damage is prominent, with positive deficiency and yin injury as the main cause, so the treatment should be based on supporting the positive, adopting the methods of benefiting qi and nourishing yin, detoxifying and dispersing nodules, and clearing and resolving phlegm-heat;

4. Changing the environment of the patient's body, improving the cancer body quality, reducing the uncomfortable reactions such as coughing and pain, and at the same time, improving the quality of life.