砒霜治療白血病曆史很悠久.但效率很差.至今隻有很特殊的情況下才有效.

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Historically, one of the most common treatments for leukemia was arsenic. This cure is mentioned in the ancient Ramayana of India, and was used by Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who gave cancer its name, from the Greek term "carcinos" or "karkinos" for crab (Waxman and Anderson, 2001).
In the 18th century, Thomas Fowler created what became known as "Fowler's Solution," a combination of arsenic trioxide and potassium bicarbonate, which "became a standard remedy to treat anemia, Hodgkin's disease, and leukemia"(Waxman and Anderson, 2001). Arsenic became the primary therapy for leukemia, used up to the early 20th century, when it fell out of favor with the advent of radiation therapy (Waxman and Anderson, 2001). In 1865, a German physician named Lissauer used Fowler's solution to treat chronic myelocytic leukemia (Burns, 2004). In the 1970s in China, arsenic was revived as a treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia.