The death of a cancer-stricken actress has sparked a debate in China over whether or not traditional Chinese medicine is a sham.
26-year-old Xu Ting, from Beijing, was diagnosed with a form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in July and died of the illness last week.
The
woman had deliberately chosen not to undergo chemotherapy; instead she
went for cupping, needle insertion and blood-letting, leading many to
question whether or not these therapies had contributed to her death.
Horrific: The 26-year-old had chosen
traditional Chinese treatment because chemotherapy was too painful.
Picture, from Xu's social media, showed she had undergone a cupping
session
Xu announced her illness to her fans on social media on July 9.
In a post on Weibo,
the Chinese equivalent to Twitter, the upcoming actress said she had
been diagnosed with the critical illness by Beijing Cancer Hospital.
She
explained she had decided not to undergo chemotherapy because she had
seen the others being 'tortured' by it and they still passed away.
The woman said she decided to follow traditional Chinese medicine.
'I
know chemotherapy is extremely painful and it might cause [me] to die
faster. So no matter how long I can live, I want to spend every day of
my remaining life happily,' Xu wrote on Weibo.
She
also said she was one of seven children in her family and had worked
hard to earn money in order to pay the rent, support her brother's
education and pay off her parents' debt.
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