Xīnbìng hái yòng xīn yào yī.

心病還用心藥醫。

Lit A heart's sickness [must] be treated in the heart.

Fig A wounded heart can only be healed in the mind.

Note [Also said xīn bìng zhòng shì xīn yào yī, and xīn bìng hái xū xīn yào yī; cf. DRC, chap. 90; Chū Kè Pāi'àn Jīngqì, chap. 6; note also the chengyu: xīn bìng nán yī, “'heart sickness (is) hard to treat.”]

Topics chengyu Chū Kè Pāi'àn Jīngqì DRC HEALING HEARTS MINDS