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First Person | Jiao Ruineng

Walking, talking without pain

Editor's note: Jiao Ruineng, 44, is from Shanghai and has multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells.

When I was diagnosed, doctors in Shanghai told me my treatment would cost more than 700,000 yuan ($113,500).

But they couldn't guarantee that it would cure my disease.

In April, I visited Wang Menglin's traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Beijing and received two months of bee therapy.

I got a transfusion of TCM and injections of bee venom every day.

I feel much better. It used to hurt so much that I couldn't walk or talk. Now I can walk and talk without feeling pain.

I don't want to use Western medicine, as the treatment the clinic in Beijing offers is less painful than chemotherapy and has fewer side effects.

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