This sort of thing leaves doctors of Western medicine shaking their heads in amazement. Sometimes, too, a doctor of Chinese medicine diagnoses a patient as having "excessive liver-fire." But when a Western doctor tests the patient's liver, he finds nothing out of the ordinary, leading to a different kind of head-shaking.
中醫在臨床治療時，針對病人頭痛，醫生會從手指紮針，讓西醫大惑不解；有時中醫診斷病人「肝火旺」，西醫去測量他的肝臟指數，卻毫無異象，也讓他們產生質疑。