[ **up: [[Medicine--History]] | [[China]]** ] --- # Chinese medicine (TCM) [[2024-0416. Yin deficiency is due to the excess consumption of vital materials including Fluid, Essence and Blood or to fever impairing those materials. It may lead to a relative overabundance of Yang.|Yin deficiency is due to the excess consumption of vital materials including Fluid, Essence and Blood or to fever impairing those materials. It may lead to a relative overabundance of Yang.]][^1] --- ## Ingredients - [[Caterpillar fungus]] - [[Starwort Root]] --- - *See also:* - [[Sānbǎo 三寶 (Three Treasures)]] - [[Philosophy, Chinese]] - [[Daoism]] [^1]: Jing-Nuan Wu, ‘Yin Deficiency’, *[[Wu, 'An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica', 2005.|An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica]]*. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005, n.p.