Why is it that generosity is also a cure, and effectiveness is the hard truth?

  In 1995, when I was working in Xi’an.  A young female patient with lupus erythematosus came to the outpatient clinic to seek treatment from me.  The patient reported that she had been treated by a private doctor with good results, but was forced to close down because of a patient’s bad treatment. So, having no choice, she asked many people and finally, decided to seek treatment from me.  I looked at the prescriptions written by the private doctor, and each prescription was full of 30 or 40 medicines.  I am used to prescribing small prescriptions, but the patient said it was effective, so I thought about it: effective is the best.  The patient trusted me so much that she gave me all her medical records and asked me to study her disease. I spent a few days analyzing her prescription and summarizing her medication pattern.  Later, I had also cured some patients with a generous prescription of 20 or 30 flavors, and the patients responded well.  It is true: no prescription is too big or too small, but effective is good!