Glancing at Wu Buwei, Du Heng continued slowly, "Most of the medicinal ingredients in this prescription are for harmonizing stomach qi. If you treat lesser yang instead of yangming, it will damage the stomach qi. At that time, the pernicious influence of lesser yang would lead the pernicious influences from the other two meridians to conceal themselves in the yin meridians. This would immediately transform the condition from a three-yang pattern to a three-yin pattern.
By then, what was merely a common cold would be aggravated into a severe illness by that single prescription."
Hearing Du Heng's last words, Wu Buwei fell silent.
Du Heng stood up, preparing to leave. "Actually, if you don't overthink it and just focus on treating yangming with modifications to the White Tiger Decoction, the effect might be slower, but the final outcome wouldn't be much different."
