Chiang Han-sheng notes that from the point of view of modern Western medicine, "renal deficiency" is a very simple type of neurasthenia, while nocturnal emissions are something quite natural, and masturbation does not lead to any loss of sexual function.
江漢聲表示，以今天西醫的角度來看，腎虧是一種「神經衰弱症」。而夢遺則是自然現象，自慰也不會造成性功能障礙。