Li Xu continued to explain, "Professor Gao, your earlier diagnosis of 'liver fire flaring up' was completely correct.
But have you ever considered where this liver fire comes from?
When I took his pulse just now, beneath the wiry and rapid signs at the *cun* position, I also felt an extremely subtle, choppy, and weak fluctuation.
This indicates that the root of his illness is 'liver and kidney yin deficiency, where water fails to nourish wood.'
"The liver belongs to wood, and the kidney belongs to water. Water generates wood.
If the kidney's water is deficient, it cannot nourish the liver's wood. When the liver wood loses its nourishment, it becomes agitated and overactive, transforming into deficiency fire that flares up into the eyes.
This is the principle behind 'water failing to nourish wood, leading to hyperactive liver yang.'"
"And the fundamental cause of his liver and kidney yin deficiency is—excessive worry and overthinking!
