"How are you feeling?"
Li Xu asked the patient.
Ai Shengbing weakly shook his head.
He was in too much pain to speak.
Besides,
he had already given up on treatment.
He was only here because his mother refused to give up, and he couldn't bear to disappoint her.
Li Xu withdrew his hand, a diagnosis already formed in his mind.
What Western medicine called malignant pleural effusion and pericardial effusion was, in the eyes of TCM, a condition known as "phlegm-fluid retention affecting the chest."
And while the catheter in his chest was meant to drain fluid and alleviate symptoms from a Western medical perspective, from a TCM standpoint, it was continuously depleting the patient's qi and blood.
