汤药只能固本 不能根治
“Medicine can restore his body but can't fix his heart.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
都半个多月了 怎么还这样？ 令郎所犯的是心病
“It's been over half a month. Why is he still not recovering? The young master's illness lies in the heart.”
汤药只能 固本 不能 根治
“Medicine can restore his body but can't fix his heart.”
公主 你终于出来了 公主 你是要出去吗？
“Your Highness, you finally came out. Are you going out?”
“Stop expecting the medicine to cure him when the real issue is entirely in his mind.”
In TCM philosophy, physical remedies often merely consolidate the vital base (guben) while psychological afflictions (xinbing) require emotional resolution to truly eradicate the root cause.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to fortify the body's foundation or constitution
A Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) term commonly used when talking about long-term strengthening rather than immediate symptom relief.
to effect a permanent cure; to eradicate the root cause
Widely used in medical or metaphorical contexts to denote curing something once and for all.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“but she's good at decoction and soup.”
“I know a bit about herbal remedies myself.”
“I can do a good job cooking herbs and stuff.”
“while I am plagued by chronic illness and have to drink medicine every day?”
“You're not tending to it properly, just to make me feel pity for you?”
“the whip was soaked in herbal decoctions”