A school of Oriental medicine says it has published a clinical case of tumor cured by Oriental herbal medication.

The Oriental Medicine Cancer facility at the East-West Neo-Medical Center said it had prescribed its new herbal remedy, Nexia, made from lacquer tree extracts, to two cancer patients whose tumors had spread from their kidneys to lungs. The tumors disappeared.

The medical team said on Tuesday that it had published these results in the one of the world’s most highly referenced cancer journals, “Annals of Oncology.”

They say it is unusual for herbal medication cancer treatment to be published in a world-class journal, due to issues on standardization and quality control of the medication involved in Oriental medicine.

However, a professor in the medical team explained that Nexia has undergone standardization and quality control. He says the publication of the case in the internationally cited journal is an acknowledgement of the treatment's efficacy and is a published case of the medicine’s use on a patient.

The paper reported that six months of Nexia used on Stage 4 progressive cancer completely eliminated the tumor in a man in his 50s.