This article introduced and summarized Tan Xinhua's experience in treating anemia associated with breast cancer. Based on the theory of “warming the person with thin body by qi and tonifying the person with little essence by flavor”, Professor Tan thinks that the important pathogenesis of anemia associated with breast cancer lies in the deficiency of body and essence. He advocates to supplement the deficiency of “body and essence” from the two aspects of “qi and flavor”, and put forward the specific treatment methods of warm body and tonify deficiency and nourish esse...