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Treating Branch First in Emergency Cases:
If a serious complication takes place in the developing process
of a disease, this complication, although a branch, is an emergency
and should be resolved promptly; otherwise it will endanger the
patient's life or hinder the treatment of the root (the primary
disease). In this condition, doctors ought to apply the principle
of treating the branch first in emergency cases. For example, in
the case that a patient with a chronic disease has newly suffered
exogenous evil, the newly developed disease is urgent, one must
dispel the exogenous evil (treating the branch) first; and only
when the exogenous syndrome is cured, can the chronic disease be
cured (treating the root).
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