"This illness resembles injuries caused by the influence of cold, and yet is the result of something totally different. Cold-related afflictions enter the body through the ends of the hair, and from there reach the blood channels. They continue to penetrate further into the body, eventually entering the conduits. From the yang region they invade the yin region and drive deeper and deeper into the body. Epidemics due to warmth enter the body through the mouth and nose, finally settling on the diaphragm. The affliction is thus located between inner and outer regions and can subsequently manifest itself in nine-fold form."
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Wu Yu-hsing (Wu Yuxing) describing his notably successful treatment of a widespread epidemic which took place between the years 1641 and 1644 across several Chinese provinces - quoted by Unschuld in Medicine in China: A History of Ideas, 1985.
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