Quiz 17- Is good to take Fu Zi (Chinese Herbal medicine) or not ?

[Tientai ✝️]

It's just that the classic text says: "also using You metal Brother yao as Medicine also"

The classical text is sometimes written like that.  The writer expects that the reader understands Brother/Siblings line is the Favorable God that strengthens the Useful God, or in Tientai's terminology the partner for the Useful God.

If one can imagine a single Chinese herb formula is good as medicine (Offspring line as Yongshen )...
Then additionally can supplement this with "partner " herb that can combine with basic formula to produce curing results ..
Medicinals in TCM  are comlined herbs that wotk as a team on  producing results ..
Many times some herbs are not so good for this team... so replaced and this named as "modification" in Chinese medicine ..
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[Tientai ✝️]

The very best query could anyone make is.. why offspring as Zi water ( and represent "nature of Medicine" ), is such a Prescription of Ganjiang Fuzi Tang ?...

Fu zi [radix aconiti praeparata, 附子]
Fu Zi: Restoring yang from collapse, reinforcing fire and strengthening yang, dispelling cold to alleviate pain.
Gan jiang [rhizoma zingiberis, 干姜]
Gan Jiang: Warming the lung and dispelling cold so as to eliminate retained phlegm and warming up the spleen-Yang to remove dampness.
The Effect of Ganjiang Fuzi Tang: Restoring yang from collapse...

..but why in this Hexagram is proposed as Offspring = Medicine = Zi water = cold Nature ?.. although the Prescription of Ganjiang Fuzi Tang is too much Hot  !!!
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[Sacrar]

It's just that the classic text says: "also using You metal Brother yao as Medicine also"

The classical text is sometimes written like that.  The writer expects that the reader understands Brother/Siblings line is the Favorable God that strengthens the Useful God, or in Tientai's terminology the partner for the Useful God.

If one can imagine a single Chinese herb formula is good as medicine (Offspring line as Yongshen )...
Then additionally can supplement this with "partner " herb that can combine with basic formula to produce curing results ..
Medicinals in TCM  are comlined herbs that wotk as a team on  producing results ..
Many times some herbs are not so good for this team... so replaced and this named as "modification" in Chinese medicine ..
..

It is the concept called synergy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy

[Tientai ✝️]

Synergy is a term  acceptable for Medicinals in TCM field ..
But Synergy is different from Modification ..
Synergy : means "working together "
Modification : means amendment, change, alternation, replacement
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