Li Xu said to the patient's wife, "I've already made it clear. Your husband's body is like an ancient iceberg, frozen for over thirty years. The cold has penetrated his very bones, freezing his circulation. That's why he's in this condition, living a life worse than death."
"The only effective treatment now is a powerful concoction of intensely acrid and hot herbs, strong enough to shatter the ice and thaw him out with the force of a thunderbolt. Conventional, half-hearted measures are useless at this point."
"Can he be cured?"
The patient's younger brother, who had been standing by silently, asked nervously.
Li Xu said, "It's dragged on for so long that it's now a severe case of heart and kidney yang deficiency with an excess of internal yin cold. No one can guarantee a complete cure; that would be a lie. But what I can guarantee is that after taking the medicine, his condition will not get worse. As long as he can get past this, there's a chance to live."
