Taking a deep breath, Su Tao started performing his acupuncture. The reason why the patient’s condition worsened despite taking the Four Energy Tonic was due to the fact that the effects of the tonic weren't fully released. Hence, Su Tao had to use acupuncture to accelerate the pace that the patient’s body was absorbing the medicinal effect to increase his immunity.

There’s a blatant difference between the treatment of TCM and western medicine. Western medicine emphasised on killing the virus, while TCM emphasised on treating the person instead of the disease.

China overcame smallpox, measles, plague, and poliomyelitis throughout its thousands of years of history. Before western medicine even appeared, China had relied on TCM to fight against epidemics. For example, TCM’s Bupleurum Correction Beverage was effective when it comes to combating viral influenza.

New types of viruses were epidemics that were hard to control in modern medical studies. For TCM, their treatment wasn’t to kill the virus but treat the patients who were infected.

TCM used the same...