Fan repeated Ning’s lung mirror test after two cleansing sessions. Ning had chosen the same measured dose each time. The first had caused a hard cough, then settled. The second had been easier. Neither had made her chest tight.
“Do you want to stop after the image?” Fan asked.
“No. I want to see the comparison before we discuss treatment.”
He set the earlier tracing and the new image side by side. The upper airway showed less residue. The lower tissue still looked irritated, with a narrow region of damage below it.
Qinghe asked Fan to mark the boundary where irritation ended and damaged tissue began. He pointed to a thin margin on the image and marked it in blue.
“Can the palm repair this region without removing the remaining residue?” Ning asked.
“It cannot remove residue,” Fan said. “The palm could repair living tissue, but using it while residue remains may make irritation harder to interpret.”
“Could it make the residue worse?”
