Topic on discussion of vital-qi corresponding to heaven in the plain questions (Third article part XII) [1]

If one is exposed to wind, chill and fever result. Hence, if one is attacked by wind in the spring and the evil lingers, severe Diarrhea [3] will occur in the summer; if one is attacked by summer heat in the summer, malaria will appear in the autumn; impaired by dampness in the autumn, the qi will rebel upward and produce cough, and atrophy diseases will ensue in the winter; impaired by cold in the winter, pyretic diseases will be bound to manifest in the spring. The evils of the four seasons harm the five zang-organs in alteration.

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