• 补  • Tonify
• 补法  • Tonifying method
• 补火助阳  • Tonify fire and assist yang
• 补肾益气  • Tonify the kidney and replenish qi
• 补脾益肺  • Tonify the spleen and replenish the lung
• 补气壮阳  • Tonify qi and invigorate yang
• 温补脾胃  • Warm and tonify the spleen and stomach

• 滋  • Enrich
• 滋肾  • Enrich the kidney
• 滋阴补血  • Enrich yin and tonify the blood
• 滋阴潜阳  • Enrich yin and subdue yang
• 滋阴润燥  • Enrich yin to moisten dryness
• 滋阴降火  • Enrich yin and reduce fire

• 虚实  • Deficiency and excess
• 虚火  • Deficiency fire
• 阴虚  • Yin deficiency
• 心气虚  • Heart qi deficiency
• 心肝血虚  • Heart-liver blood deficiency
• 虚实夹杂  • Deficiency-excess complex
• 由实转虚  • Conversion of excess into deficiency
• 肾虚水泛  • Kidney deficiency with water flood

• 寒热  • Cold and heat
• 寒证  • Cold syndrome
• 热证  • Heat syndrome
• 虚寒症  • Deficiency-cold syndrome
• 上热下寒  • Upper heat and lower cold
• 寒热转化  • Conversion of cold and heat