Medicine is the basis of prescription. An ancient saying goes, "Using medicine is like using troops." Prescribing and using medicine is like dispatching troops and generals. A medicine is like the basic instructions of a program and the words and phrases of an article. Only by understanding the characteristics and precise meaning of each instruction and phrase can one write durable programs and beautiful articles. The same goes for traditional Chinese medicine. Each medicine has its own personality, cold, hot, warm and cool, and scope of action (meridian tropism), unless you clearly understand the characteristics of each medicine, you cannot prescribe precise, beautiful and effective prescriptions.

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