Exuberant fire tormenting metal

1. Liver fire affecting the lung. See wood fire tormenting metal.

2. Heart fire or fire-heat affecting the lung. Heart fire can damage lung yīn, giving rise to panting and cough with phlegm-streaked blood; an intense heat evil becoming depressed in the lung or phlegm-heat obstructing the lung can give rise to high fever, hasty rapid breathing, flaring nostrils, and in severe cases coughing of blood.