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Prescription Summary (PART I) 国医之声团队成员 松坡 授课日期：2016年7月23日 国医之声公众号：voiceofcm, 微信号：1811670699 国医之声荔枝FM ：1312564 Definition of Prescription The prescription are not merely collections of medicinal substances in which the actions of one herb are simply added to those of another in a cumulative fashion. They are complex recipes of interrelated substances, each of which affects the others in the prescription. It is the complex interaction makes prescription so effective. Every medicinal substance has its strengths and its shortcomings. An effective prescription is one in which the substances are carefully balanced To accentuate the strengths To reduce the side-effects. （副反应/作用） Components of a prescription  Organizing principle : hierarchy （配伍）.  Commonly, a prescription includes four ranks :  JUN: chief ingredients, focusing on chief diseases or syndromes, indispensable part.  CHEN: to help monarch treating chief diseases and syndromes.  ZUO: concentrating on secondary diseases/syndromes, or to reduce venenous effects coming from king or minister.  SHI : to point effective ingredients to the sick location. “君臣佐使”的翻译形式 JUN ：monarch, king, principal or chief CHEN ：minister, adjutant, associate or deputy ZUO ：assistant or adjutant Shi ： guide, messenger, conductant or envoy But it would be quite unusual for a prescription to include all the various types of minister, assistant, and guide ingredients. Many of them consist of only a monarch- ingredient and one o