Mother Affecting Child
Updated 2026-08-02
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Mother affecting child is a transmission pattern in the five-phase theory of traditional Chinese medicine. The generating cycle pairs each element with a mother and a child, so kidney water generates liver wood. When the mother organ is deficient, the child is deprived of support, producing the pattern called water failing to nourish wood. The rule holds only along the generating sequence and only when the upstream node is the depleted one. Treatment therefore addresses the mother rather than the symptomatic child, a principle summarized as nourishing water to contain wood.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Inheritance debt: the mother runs out of funds, so the child is poor as well. - Root treatment: nourish the mother organ so the child recovers indirectly. - Transmission watch: check whether the deficit will propagate further downstream.
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Along a generating chain, each node's output is the next node's input. A depleted mother therefore starves the child even though the child itself was never attacked, so the visible deficit sits downstream while its cause sits upstream. Repairing the child alone leaves the supply failure intact.
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