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After the treatment of cold-damage disease, there is no hardness below the heart, no fullness in the abdomen, normal bowel movements, absence of chills or fever, gradual progression to unconsciousness and muteness, or soliloquy during sleep, red eyes, dry mouth without desire to drink, able to swallow porridge but not craving it, appearing like a drunk person, this is known as the Yue Jing syndrome.

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Ang's note: The pathogenic factors of cold-damage disease have no boundaries between the hands and feet, hence Zhongjing also has several purgative heart decoctions, and the Ephedra Cinnamon Twig is considered by previous scholars to be a lung medicine. This decoction purges the pathogenic factors from the heart and lungs, and the heat is expelled through the small intestine and bladder, hence it is also called "Guide Out the Red." The difference between this and the purgative heart decoctions lies in the absence of symptoms of stuffiness and hardness.