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This story was posted on Weibo, the Chinese microblogging site that is similar to Twitter. In November 2014, villager Wei Shufu from Yunnan set up an herbal medicine bed for his daughter, hoping that the fumes would cure his daughter’s blood disease.
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Wei’s daughter was diagnosed with an inherited blood disease in 2013, however, the bone marrow transplant needed for her treatment would have required a 300,000-yuan deposit (about $46,000), with further 50,000 to 60,000 yuan a year for blood transfusions.
The family’s annual income was only 40,000 yuan, as Wei described on his Weibo account.
Lacking alternatives, Wei built a special elevated bed with a variety of herbal plants gathered from nearby mountains as prescribed by a method he found online. The treatment would be carried out by burned a fire under the bed and having the girl lie on it while breathing in the “herbal smoke.”
Wei’s Weibo account was banned on the charge of spreading false information after he posted pictures of the treatment.
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