Chapter 318: Chapter 141: With Righteousness Within, Evil Cannot Invade

Lu Xuan’s explanation of kidney cancer had a profound impact on both Su Kenan and Ji Xiuwen.

Is cancer an incurable disease?

Why can’t Western medicine cure cancer?

Actually, cancer is not an incurable disease, at least not in traditional Chinese medicine.

Cancer is just a specific term invented by Western medicine for a certain type of condition.

For example: brain cancer, leukemia, tongue cancer, throat cancer, esophageal cancer, etc.

Just looking at these names is frightening enough, making Western medicine appear very “profound and scientific,” as if it knows everything.

However, when it comes to specific “treatment methods,” the “simple-minded characteristic” of Western medicine becomes glaringly obvious. With so many strange types of cancer, it basically resorts to the “three moves of Cheng Yaojin”:

Traditional cold weapons, surgery, using a scalpel to remove cancerous tissue;

Chemical weapons, chemotherapy, using chemical drugs to kill cancerous tissue;

Biochemical weapons, radiation therapy, attempting to kill cancer cells with radiation.

After the three moves, if the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, for Western medicine, this is an “incurable disease”; if the patient’s life is spared, surviving the three trials, and the post-treatment examination shows the cancer mass has shrunk or temporarily “disappeared,” they proclaim the “treatment was very successful.”

As for when it grows back, in the eyes of Western medicine, this is a “relapse”; if it appears elsewhere, it’s a “metastasis.”

To put it extremely, it’s an unwillingness to admit they can’t cure it, so whatever the final result, it is always considered a “success” in Western medicine.

If something goes wrong, it’s always the patient’s bad luck and unrelated to the treatment.

As to why cancer “relapses” or “metastasizes,” Western medicine doesn’t know and doesn’t care.

However, it must be said that behind almost every type of cancer, there are huge medical costs, especially for malignant tumors, often leading to patients becoming impoverished, losing both their wealth and their lives.

The money is gone, the person is not saved, and they may even die suffering during treatment.

Ji Xiuwen has no particular research on cancer and has only recently encountered a few cases; previously, he only had some understanding of cancers related to the digestive system through some cases Lu Xuan had seen before.

However, he’s seen many comments on cancer online.

Especially when it comes to the viewpoints and treatments of cancer in Western and Chinese medicine, the conflict between the two is irreconcilable.

Those who believe in traditional Chinese medicine naturally detest the three moves of Western medicine.

Those who have faith in Western medicine think traditional Chinese medicine is unscientific, even within the realm of metaphysics, as many things aren’t explained clearly—how can it be used to treat disease and save people?

However, it should be mentioned that the Western countries that advocate Western medicine as the savior are increasingly emphasizing traditional Chinese medicine in recent years.

Countries like Japan and South Korea are rushing to register Chinese medicine as their own, turning the millennia-old tradition into something that belongs to them.

The United States even established special funds to develop Chinese medicine, spending large sums to bring skilled Chinese medicine practitioners to their country.

On one hand, they treat Chinese medicine as a treasure, while on the other, they constantly belittle it.

If Chinese medicine were truly worthless, would these countries at the forefront of Western medicine pay such attention to it?

This in itself is a false premise.

It is worth pondering the reasons behind this.

Moreover, Ji Xiuwen also saw some interesting statements online, mentioning a foolish but potentially better method than various Western medical treatments for malignant tumors, which is “no treatment.”

Because not treating is merely “waiting to die,” while treating is definitely “seeking death.”

And the survival rate and time when “waiting to die” might be higher and longer than “seeking death.”

If judged by the “average survival time after surgery” in Western medicine to evaluate efficacy, “no treatment” produces better “results” than Western cancer treatment methods.

There were even numerous statistics listed; it has to be said, it seems like a joke, but after hearing Lu Xuan’s words today, he gained a new understanding of this joke.

However, Ji Xiuwen knows this isn’t just a joke. Foreign medical researchers have confirmed through thousands of cases that patients who were determined not to go to the hospital for Western medicine’s three moves and simply awaited death generally lived longer than those rushing to “combat cancer fully.”

In 1986, British doctor Hulse Jede discovered that surgical removal can instead cause cancer cells to spread rapidly.

Surgically removing human tissue inevitably brings destruction to bodily tissue and the transfer of cancer cells. According to Chinese medicine theory, random surgical removal will surely destroy the body’s biological system, leading to even greater chaos in life systems, only making things worse!

It’s like a complete ecosystem suddenly missing a part, affecting the entire chain.

Moreover, Western medical approaches to cancer not only involve removing the cancer mass but also cutting out other healthy tissue surrounding it to prevent the spread of cancer cells.

This is what’s still practiced broadly: the treatment method which eliminates both good and bad together—the “large-scale removal method of cancer mass alongside normal surrounding tissue.”

And this procedure has a very elegant name, “tumor-free excision method.”

Thinking of these things, after Yu Xiaowan helped Yu Yunxing out of the consultation room, Ji Xiuwen looked at Lu Xuan and said, “Do you remember the report we saw in school about the American Cancer Institute in 1977 regarding the surgical treatment of a woman with breast cancer?”

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