Lu Xuan's explanation of kidney cancer had a profound impact on both Su Kenan and Ji Xiuwen.
Is cancer an incurable disease?
Why can't Western medicine cure cancer?
Actually, cancer is not an incurable disease, at least not in traditional Chinese medicine.
Cancer is just a specific term invented by Western medicine for a certain type of condition.
For example: brain cancer, leukemia, tongue cancer, throat cancer, esophageal cancer, etc.
Just looking at these names is frightening enough, making Western medicine appear very "profound and scientific," as if it knows everything.
However, when it comes to specific "treatment methods," the "simple-minded characteristic" of Western medicine becomes glaringly obvious. With so many strange types of cancer, it basically resorts to the "three moves of Cheng Yaojin":
Traditional cold weapons, surgery, using a scalpel to remove cancerous tissue;
Chemical weapons, chemotherapy, using chemical drugs to kill cancerous tissue;
