Shen Dahe placed his hand on the table, while Yun Jiao took his pulse and slowly asked, "Uncle, how long have you had this illness?"
Gu Lian answered for him, "It's been six or seven years, I suppose."
"Back when your father was still around, he also prescribed medicine, and it got somewhat better, but it never fully cured."
Yun Jiao nodded, as asthma, even by the twenty-first century, was something modern medical techniques could not completely cure.
In traditional Chinese medicine, asthma is divided into cold asthma and hot asthma, and the reasons for its onset are complex. Some are due to insufficient kidney energy, some due to lung heat, and others due to bronchial changes, among other causes.
Modern medicine typically only uses anti-inflammatory treatments or hormone drugs to expand the bronchi as an emergency measure. It treats the symptoms but not the root cause.
