The difference between liver yin deficiency and liver fire is that the former is a deficiency fire and the latter is a real fire, with different etiologies, clinical manifestations and treatments. 1. Causes: Liver yin deficiency is mostly caused by the depletion of liver yin and fluid due to prolonged illness, labor injuries, and physical weakness, while liver fire is mostly caused by emotional disorders (unruly emotions), dietary imbalances, etc., resulting in liver depression that leads to fire (liver qi is not clear, leading to the emergence of fire-heat), and fire-heat caused by internal disturbances. 2. Symptoms: Liver yin deficiency people often appear symptoms include hidden pain in the ribs, dry eyes, hot flashes (a burst of heat), night sweats (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, waking up sweating stops), cheekbones flushing (cheekbones on both sides of the face reddish in color), insomnia and forgetfulness, and so on. People with high liver fire commonly suffer from headache, red and swollen eyes, irritability, short and reddish urine (small amount of urine, dark yellow color), and dry and knotty stools. 3.treatment: Liver yin deficiency treatment need to nourish yin and soften liver mainly, often use wolfberry chrysanthemum dihuang pill, consistently decoction and so on, and liver fire exuberant treatment need to clear liver and diarrhea fire (clear liver fire) as main method. Often may choose the dan gardenia getaway pill, the firewood hu shu liver powder and so on, but the specific medicine also needs in the physician’s guidance to take.