cold-natured
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3ADJ.
different, misused
COLD-NATURED + NOUN
cold-syndromes, drugs, herb
PREP.
with
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adj
Associated with Yin; Having the effects of lowering fevers and removing toxic substances.
The general principle of treatment is to treat heat-syndrome diseases with cold-natured drugs, and cold-syndromes with warm-natured drugs.
A cold-natured herb is different from a cool-natured one only in degree; so is a warm-natured herb different from a hot-natured herb.
Highly sensitive to cold temperatures.
Considering how cold-natured his car was he decided it would be just as easy to walk.
She was so very cold-natured that you had to have a fire all night.
Tending to be unemotional and unsympathetic.
No, he was thinking, Kate isn't cold-natured at all. Not by any stretch of the imagination! She was sweet and warm and loving,
You'll have material success and a cold-natured partner who pencils your love-making in his or her calendar — as long as it doesn't interfere with the next board meeting.
Thriving in colder environments.
Line the whole crust or fortifying boundary on its inside to the north, facing the south, with a conservatory for tropical plants, &c, that shall enclose twenty acres ; line it to the south, facing the north, with a conservatory of the same size for " cold- natured vegetation."
In addition to being an SSE member, we are also conducting our own seed exchange program, and we will gladly send trial samples of either Siberia or Glacier to SSE members for any cold-natured variety of tomato, beans, peas, squash or pumpkin that is no longer being sold.
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3The general principle of treatment is to treat heat-syndrome diseases with cold-natured drugs, and cold-syndromes with warm-natured drugs.
WiktionaryA cold-natured herb is different from a cool-natured one only in degree; so is a warm-natured herb different from a hot-natured herb.
WiktionaryMoreover, due to the failure to distinguish Yin from Yang, many TCM pharmacologists misjudge Yang deficiency syndrome and have misused cold-natured drugs for a long period of time.
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