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MENTAL MODEL · M0874

Harmonizing Method

Harmonizing Method
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Neither attacking fiercely nor purely supplementing, it restores order to the body by harmonizing the liver and spleen, cold and heat, and exterior and interior. The representative formula is Xiao Chai Hu Tang.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Diplomatic negotiation. When the enemy is stuck in the half-exterior, half-interior (Shaoyang syndrome), caught between advance and retreat, do not start a war. Send a diplomat (Chai Hu) to mediate, quell the internal strife, and redraw the boundaries.

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Harmonizing method is one of the eight methods of traditional Chinese medicine, which resolves Shaoyang and regulates the flow of qi, used for pathogens in the half-exterior, half-interior or liver-spleen disharmony.

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