Supporting Righteousness vs Expelling Evil
Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30
CORE DEFINITION
The two overarching principles of Chinese medicine treatment. Supporting Righteousness (tonification) is like reinforcing your own troops; Expelling Evil (purgation) is like bombing the enemy.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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An offense-defense balance sheet. Treating disease is like waging war. If your own forces are strong (good constitution), directly bomb (expel evil); if your own forces are weak (frail constitution), you must first send provisions (support righteousness), otherwise after bombing, the enemy may not die, but your own people will collapse first.
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The general principle of Chinese medicine treatment: Supporting Righteousness = tonifying vital qi (self-repair/defense capability); Expelling Evil = removing pathogenic factors (external pathogens/pathological products). The two are in an offense-defense relationship, and must be weighed according to the ebb and flow of righteousness and evil: if deficiency of righteousness is primary, first support righteousness (to avoid harming righteousness with purgation); if excess of evil is primary, then expel evil. Essentially, it is resource allocation between 'own capability vs external threat'.
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