For Li Xu, having the system meant he had no fear of the old saying about a master starving after teaching his apprentice.
In fact, he hoped everyone would learn it.
Because only when more people knew the technique could they brainstorm and push it into actual clinical use, benefiting more patients.
Of course, with acupuncture anesthesia, selecting the acupoints was only one part of it.
The real difficulty lay in the second part.
That was the complete control over the process: from "achieving qi," to "guiding qi," and finally, "maintaining qi."
The subtle changes during this process were the core of acupuncture, and also the most difficult part to quantify.
From the perspective of Western medicine, this might need to be explained on a microscopic level, involving concepts like neuro-electrophysiology and neurotransmitter release.
Li Xu's actions today were undoubtedly sending a strong signal to the outside world:
