The Yellow Emperor asks, "What are the functions of the principal and adjunct ingredients in a prescription?"
Qi Bo answers: "The principal ingredient provides the main curative action, and the adjunct helps strengthen the effect while the conductant directs the medicine to the affected meridian. " Three grades of medicine is a classification of drugs based chiefly upon their toxicity.
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