正邪相争
Traditional form:
正邪相爭
Pinyin (reading):
zhèngxiéxiāngzhēng
Definitions:
- term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣／正气 (zhèngqì) and pathogeny 邪氣／邪气 (xiéqì)
Characters:
- 正 - straight, right, proper, correct, just, true
- 邪 - wrong, evil, demonic; perverse, depraved, heterodox
- 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 争 - to dispute, to fight, to contend, to strive
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