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TCM Mutual Assistance
Chinese Name: 相使
English Name: Mutual Assistance
When combining medicinals with similar properties and efficacies, or combining medicinals with different properties and efficacies which are able to treat same syndrome or diseases, it is referred to as mutual assistance. In this case, one medicinal takes on the major role, while the other one functions as an assistant to the major medicinal. As a result it increases the treatment effect of the major medicinal; therefore creating reinforcement. For example, when combining Huangqi, which can tonify qi and promote urination, with the medicinal Fuling, which can promote and tonify the spleen, as a result Fuling can reinforce the medicinal efficacies to tonify qi and promote urination.
The similarities between mutual reinforcement and mutual assistant are that by combination, medicinals can cooperate to reinforce the overal medicinal effect. Their differences lies in the fact that mutual reinforcement medicinals are of equal importance, while to mutual assistance, which is comprised of a major and an assistant medicinal.
English Name: Mutual Assistance
When combining medicinals with similar properties and efficacies, or combining medicinals with different properties and efficacies which are able to treat same syndrome or diseases, it is referred to as mutual assistance. In this case, one medicinal takes on the major role, while the other one functions as an assistant to the major medicinal. As a result it increases the treatment effect of the major medicinal; therefore creating reinforcement. For example, when combining Huangqi, which can tonify qi and promote urination, with the medicinal Fuling, which can promote and tonify the spleen, as a result Fuling can reinforce the medicinal efficacies to tonify qi and promote urination.
The similarities between mutual reinforcement and mutual assistant are that by combination, medicinals can cooperate to reinforce the overal medicinal effect. Their differences lies in the fact that mutual reinforcement medicinals are of equal importance, while to mutual assistance, which is comprised of a major and an assistant medicinal.
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