Exuberant yang repelling yin means that interior predominance of pathogenic heat stagnates yang and prevents it from reaching the limbs, clinically resulting in such false cold symptoms as deep cold sensation of the limbs and sunken pulse.

阳盛格阴，又称格阴，指热邪内盛，阳气被遏，不能外达于肢体，临床表现为四肢逆冷、脉象沉伏等假寒之象。