Mutual accentuation

Since a herbal combination has obvious advantages in treatment, the relationships between the herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have been carefully studied and certain types of relationship are identified. They are called the seven relations between herbs, e.g. mutual accentuation, mutual enhancement, mutual counteraction, mutual suppression, mutual antagonism, mutual incompatibility and single effect. Some of these are very useful in treatment, but some are harmful and therefore must be avoided. 

Of the above seven types of relationship, those of mutual accentuation and mutual enhancement are commonly used in treatment mutual counteraction and mutual suppression can also be used, especially to reduce herbs side effects or toxicity. The single herb effect is only used in a limited number of disorders relations of mutual antagonism and mutual incompatibility should be avoided in treatment. 

The difficulty becomes accentuated by several other requirements that cannot be achieved through the selection of a single filter medium. Therefore, selection is often reduced to determining the most reasonable compromise between different, mutually contradictory requirements as applied to the filter medium at a specified set of filtration conditions. Because of this, some problems should be solved before final medium selection. For example, should attempts be made to increase filtration rate or filtrate purity Is cost or medium life more important In some cases a relatively more expensive filter medium, such as a synthetic cloth, is only suitable... 

As shown in fig. 3 (Imai, Masaaki 2010b), the improved model of development. This model accentuates the advantages of Kaizen. In the process of improving, multiple factors could adapt mutually and fully, such as people, machine, regulation, environment, so as to HSE management system is in good shape. 

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