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Chinese Theories Regarding the Blood

The blood is the vital fluid that circulates through the arteries and veins of the human system. By reason of the derangement of one or all of the vital organs, the blood becomes poisoned through infection, inflammation, or contagion. Impurities in the blood often cause eruptions to appear on the skin in different parts of the body. Microscopic tests of the blood show various figures and signs of luetic infection, and the results of blood tests are often reported as from one to three plus positive. When this is the case, the sufferer frequently becomes worried and downhearted. Many such have taken dozens of hypodermic injections and have been under the treatment of medical men for years, yet their blood tests still show X's, or one to three plus positive. To obtain permanent relief is a hard problem. According to the Chinese theories, there are two classes of sufferers from blood disorders, for each of which a different method of treatment should be employed.

First, if a person infected with poisonous inflammation has robust health, the treatment should be a compound of herbs to cool the blood, thus eliminating the inflammation, and of herbs to cleanse all the internal organs. If eruptions occur in certain parts of the body, some herbs should be put into the compound to reach those places through the vital organs. Any one who faithfully gives his body a chance to get clean always succeeds.

Second, if a person has chronic luetic infection and is in a weakened condition, the compound should contain herbs to rebuild the entire system and insure the proper functioning of all the vital organs. Herbs should also be added to expel the impurities through the air and blood circulations, especially to drive the impurities out through the pores, thus helping the lungs in their work. It takes much longer to overcome the trouble when the sufferer is in a chronic, weakened condition, than when he is strong. Many persons seek to drive out -(93)the infection by taking repeated doses of physic, but the result is only to weaken the blood circulation and to permit the infection to become more deeply rooted.

The FONG WAN HERB CO. recently had a case of a man who had suffered from infection of the blood for 14 years. Twelve blood tests had been taken at different times. He had also been given seven big hypodermic injections (606) and fifty-four small shots (606) but he had gotten no relief. He had sores in his mouth and throat and on different parts of his body. His hair came out by handfuls. After having taken the Fong Wan Herbs for nine months, he is completely well and is like a new man.

Hundreds of cases of blood disorders have been permanently relieved by the Fong Wan Herb Treatment. Those printed in the following pages speak for themselves.

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