Thirteen Years to Forge a Sword: How Patience and Perseverance Helped Humanity Conquer Tuberculosis
Internal TCM recognizes four incurable diseases: wind (stroke), consumption (痨), tympanites (abdominal bloating), and dysphagia. Of these, "consumption"—also called lung consumption, lao zhai, xu lao, xu sun—is what we today call tuberculosis. TB is a contagious, wasting disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis; in…
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