Liu Dongmei, a seasoned traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner with a doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo, was guiding her students during a hospital internship when she brought up the case of a 68-year-old male patient who had been admitted to the hospital because of sudden shortness of breath and chest tightness.
He was diagnosed with “acute respiratory distress of unknown origin,” with his blood oxygen level at 92 percent. Surprisingly, chest X-rays revealed no evidence of lung infection, Liu told The Epoch Times.