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1. A cold-heat complex characterized by the simultaneous presence of a heat pattern in the upper body and a cold pattern in the lower body. Such a complex may arise, for example, as a result of inappropriate precipitation creating a lower body cold pattern of persistent diarrhea with cold limbs, and a slow sunken pulse, and causing damage to liquids that encourages heat evil to rise upward to cause a sore throat and expectoration of yellow phlegm, possibly streaked with blood.

2. Extreme vacuity of kidney yáng creating exuberant yīn cold in the lower body and causing vacuous yáng to float upward to the upper body. See vacuous yáng floating upward.

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