Lu Xuan explained again, "The Yang Support School believes that if the approach to treating illness is merely to eliminate heat evil, it is just addressing the symptoms and not the root cause. Spicy warmth to supplement Yang is the fundamental strategy for treating illness.
Lacking independent thinking, not seeking the root cause of illness, stopping a cough when seeing a cough, dissolving phlegm when seeing phlegm, cooling when seeing blood, and repeatedly using standard formulas, like using rhubarb, danggui, white peony root, honey, hemp seed, and bush cherry seed when seeing constipation, or using Akebia, plantain seed, and talc when seeing difficulty urinating; and regarding strong medicines as tigers, striving for mildness and stability. This may work for minor illnesses, but often misleads for major ones.
Doing so can indeed treat illness, but at the same time it harms the already insufficient true Yang.
