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Learn about the idiom 「藥到病除」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

The illness was cured as soon as I took the medicine. Used to describe the very good effect of medicine.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yào dào bìng chú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yeuk6 dou3/dou2 beng6 cheui4

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