The AYUSH Chronicles
The patient was one of those lucky ones who were incidentally diagnosed with liver cancer when an ultrasound was done for unrelated symptoms. I told him, "you have a small tumour in the liver. It does not seem to have spread anywhere. Your liver function is normal. If we take it out, there is a good chance that you will be cured of the disease." "Will there be pain?". he asked me. "There will be some but we medicate you for it and do other things like nerve blocks. The pain will be tolerable. I have not had a patient tell me that if he had known how painful it would be, he would not have had the surgery." "I don't like pain", he said, "can't you cure it with medicines?" I confessed that there was no way to 'cure it' with medicines. "I have been told about a very famous homoeopathic doctor. He has cured many patients with cancer. I'll go to him." I said "I can't force you to have surgery but at l