The "dialectical" composition of herbs can help cure the most stubborn ailments?
LOL!
Way back in the 1960s, when USA high school students were required to take a course on Communism, we studied Dialectical Materialism.
Materialism - in the mid-1800s - was a challenge to the then dominant philosophical theory of Idealism.
In its simplest terms, Idealism meant that all of reality was essentially constructed inside your own mind.
Materialism, in sharp contrast, took the view that everything in reality - including ideas - were based on tangible, three dimensional, matter.
Karl Marx, or one of his mentors, came up with the idea of Materialism as a dialectical process of thesis, antithesis, and ultimately synthesis.
Somehow, Marx stretched the idea of Dialectical Materialism into political Communism.
Long story (not) short...
There is a certain comical quality to the idea that even Communist Chinese medicinal herbs are Dialectical in nature.
After watching the horror on the euro soccer pitch today....sometimes you need western medicine. That player was on his way to the afterlife...western medicine brought him back.