治未病
zhì wèi bìng
Pinyin
Definition
治未病
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- preventative treatment (medicine)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 politics
- 2 political
- 1 not yet
- 2 did not
- 3 have not
- 4 not
- 5 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep
- 6 ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
- 1 to treat (an illness)
- 2 medical treatment
- 3 therapy
- 1 to fall ill
Idioms (20)
一波未平,一波又起
- 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
- 2 many twists and turns to a story
- 3 one thing after another
一病不起
- 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
久病成良医
- 1 long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
乳臭未干
- 1 smell of mother's milk not yet dried (idiom); immature and inexperienced
- 2 still wet behind the ears
以其人之道,还治其人之身
- 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