1 politics

2 political

1 to rule

2 to govern

3 to manage

4 to control

5 to harness (a river)

6 to treat (a disease)

7 to wipe out (a pest)

8 to punish

9 to research

1 to treat (an illness)

2 medical treatment

3 therapy

1 to cure

1 to prevent and cure

2 prevention and cure

1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game

2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine

1 lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom)

2 to wait idly for opportunities

3 to trust to chance rather than show initiative

1 to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action

1 political and military achievements (idiom)

1 to be frugal in attending to funeral rites (idiom)