Chengdu University of TCM: The Classics in Everyday Practice CN [DE]

In the deficient-nature difficult and stubborn diseases, simple tonics often couldn’t play a satisfactory therapeutic effect. In such patients, the main point of treatment is to consider the fire of Mingmen. The Huangdi Neijing said that “mild fire supplements qi”, which is aiming at replenishing Mingmen appropriately to mobilize the patient’s own body ability, so that the Xiajiao has the right to transport, and the essence and qi could generate mutually, the basic element of body also can replenish itself.

在虚性的疑难顽疾中，简单的补益往往不能起到令人满意的治疗效果。在此类患者中，多数治疗的要点在于考虑命门之火。《素问·阴阳印象大论》云“少火生气”，其本质就在于通过适当补益命门，调动患者自身机体能力，使下焦运化有权，从而让一身之精气互生、精血自我补充.