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In the doctrine of the five phases, the treatment of vacuity or one organ or channel by supplementing the organ that engenders it. For example, water (kidney) engenders, or is the mother of, wood (liver). Liver vacuity is treated most effectively supplementing not only the liver but also the kidney. For liver vacuity fire characterized by insomnia, heart vexation and agitation, baking heat [effusion] in the head and face, and a forceless rapid fine pulse, the principle of enriching water to moisten wood can be used, i.e., supplementing kidney water to restrain the vacuity fire of the liver.

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