Beware of Disease Brought by Home Renovation
We recently saw a patient with glioma. Two years earlier, the patient's wife had died of glioma. What could have caused a single family to produce two glioma cases in succession? Further inquiry: the family had moved five times in recent years, each into a newly-renovated home. Could it be the renovation materials?
This week we saw another glioma patient — a 16-year-old girl, ill for a year, no marked effect from X-ray-knife and various therapies. By coincidence, her home had also been newly renovated a year before.
Glioma cases in succession demand high alert. By medical theory, tumors directly relate to environmental pollution. The air, water, food around us is already heavily polluted; the residual toxicity of long-term drug use is unimaginable. To create for oneself a more concentrated polluted environment — the result is foreseeable.
What pollutants act on what aspects of the body, leading to what dysfunctions and changes — much we still do not know; it awaits joint deep research across disciplines. But regardless, we sound the alert: choose environmentally friendly renovation materials; do not rush to move into a freshly renovated home. A pretty, comfortable home may hide a fierce killer.
A polluted environment does not sicken everyone. "With right qi held within, evil cannot encroach": the body- and mind-healthy person, in inner harmony, has strong detox capacity; disease finds no foothold. Also, pollution-toxin accumulates over time — not immediate. Although TCM has new breakthroughs in glioma — full cure is possible — the suffering and fear that come with disease are no small thing. Better safe. While exercising, regulating emotion, lifting immunity — do not forget to keep clear of unseen demons.