To support the righteousness and dispel the evil, the two major treasures of Chinese medicine Many famous medical practitioners in history have suggested that “using medicine is like using soldiers”, why? Because in Chinese medicine, there is a concept of positive and negative, as stated in the “Internal Classic”: “If positive energy exists within, evil cannot dry up”. In the eyes of the ancients, the process of disease is a process of defensive combat of positive qi. The positive energy can be seen as the body’s ability to maintain its own balance and stability, and the evil energy is the force that destroys this stability. After a person is born, these two forces are always in a constant struggle. In actual warfare, military expenditure is divided into two parts, one for food and one for weapons. If you spend too much on food and fodder, your troops will have no fighting power; if you buy too many weapons, you will have fighting power, but you will not have the strength to win. Chinese medicine prescriptions also need to consider the distribution of these two forces, that is, how much to help the proportion of positive, how much to eliminate evil. If you look through the ancient prescriptions, you can find that many of the prescriptions include medicines that benefit the spleen and stomach, such as licorice, ginseng, atractylodes and jujube, which seem to have no direct therapeutic effect, but can never be deleted. Even the ginger and brown sugar water, which we are most familiar with for treating cold and wind chills, is also a combination of this wen and wu. Brown sugar is sweet and responsible for supplying food and herbs in the body, and ginger is pungent and responsible for attacking the cold evil on the body surface. When external evil attacks, the battle between positive and evil will bring discomfort to the body, such as fever and cold, when the evil is still only on the surface of the body. The higher the body temperature, the stronger the ability of the positive energy to resist evil, so do not blindly carry out physical cooling. The correct approach is to help the positive qi get rid of the evil on the surface of the body, which is called “relieving the surface” in Chinese medical terminology. If superficial evil is not effectively removed, it will cause great health problems in the future if it enters the body. In a healthy state, the positive qi is only “building” in the body and does not show combat power. This is similar to the viewpoint of Western medicine, most of the body’s white blood cells are not normally circulating in the periphery, once the pathogen invasion, white blood cells immediately released to the peripheral blood, and the external enemy to fight, showing an increase in white blood cell count. When a person is not sick, it does not mean that evil qi does not exist, but because of the strength of the righteous qi, evil qi does not dare to act. That is, as we said earlier, “When the righteousness is inside, the evil cannot be destroyed”. How can the righteousness be strong? To follow the nature, calm and empty, no delusion to work. Specifically, it means maintaining a calm mind, regular rest, moderate exercise, and a healthy diet. The righteousness can also be enhanced by drugs. Simply put, there are two types of drugs to support the righteousness: qi tonic and blood tonic. The most commonly used drugs to nourish Qi are Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng and Radix Astragali, where Radix Astragali goes on the surface of the body and Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng goes on the inside. Astragalus is suitable for people who are usually prone to colds, while Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng is suitable for those who are weak and have shortage of energy. The blood tonics include Colla Corii Asini and Angelica Sinensis. Colla Corii Asini is suitable for patients with a hot constitution, while Angelica Sinensis is warm and suitable for a cold constitution. There are also quite a few proprietary medicines to choose from, such as tonifying Zhong Yi Qi Tang, Eight Flavors Kidney Qi Pill and Six Flavors Di Huang Pill, all of which can be chosen according to one’s constitution. In addition, the support of the righteousness should be done in a watery manner, not to pull up the seeds, otherwise it will bring a new imbalance to the organism.