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Cold-heat complex

寒热错杂 〔寒熱錯雜〕 hán rè cuò zá

Any disease characterized by signs of both heat and cold. A common example of a cold-heat complex is upper body heat and lower body cold characterized by signs such as a sensation of heat and feverishness in the chest, pain in the stomach duct, clamoring stomach, and vomiting of sour and bitter matter, occurring at the same time as abdominal pain that likes warmth and pressure, rumbling intestines, and diarrhea with nontransformation of grain and water (as seen from undigested food in the stool). See upper body heat and lower body cold; upper body cold and lower body heat; exterior heat and interior cold; exterior cold and interior heat.

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