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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain

After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.

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On contagion

Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.

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The case of the cancerous stomach

Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.

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How shame makes us sick

The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.

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  • Qigong exercise for abdominal distention & generalised pain
  • C16 Chinese woodcut: Daoyin technique for abdominal pain
  • Daoyin technique to cure abdominal pain, C19 Chinese MS
  • A fire-eater kindling fire in his lungs with the remedy Thermogène. Colour lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, 1909.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Chinese pulsatilla [root]
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stephania
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Wiry Pulse (xianmai)
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Tight Pulse (jinmai)
  • Tulipa hybrid
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Rashes etc.
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