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Steam

蒸 〔蒸〕 zhēng

(Of heat in the body) to rise from a locus and affect other higher or peripheral areas. For, example heat sores on the mouth are explained as the product of upward steaming of lung-stomach heat, and a normal tongue fur as the upward steam of stomach qì. Steaming bone tidal heat describes how heat seems to emanate from the depths of the body as a steam rising from the bones. See heat.

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