Seeing Liu Baizhe looking bewildered, Lu Xuan explained again: "This explanation indeed has its discrepancies, I'm not just making things up."
"Dr. Lu, you're kidding; I didn't mean to doubt you."
Liu Baizhe finally came to his senses, shaking his head like a rattle: "It's just that what you said is really too obscure and hard to understand. For those who haven't studied Chinese medicine, I'm afraid their reaction would be similar to mine. Besides, it's hard to make these things up."
However, Lu Xuan still smiled and said, "In 'Standards for Diagnosis and Treatment: Numbness', it says: 'Heat obstruction is due to internal heat shifting to the abdomen, re-encountering external evil, blocking the meridians, stagnating and not flowing, yang encountering yang causing obstruction, numbness manifested in a burning feeling, extreme muscle heat, the body feeling like mice running, lips and mouth chapped, skin color changes.'
"How much can you understand?"
