The marrow-adhering disease · fu sui bing

At a glance

Pinyin

fù suǐ bìng

Simplified

胕髓病

Literal

胕髓病 fù suǐ bìng — 胕 is read fù and stands for 附, to adhere; 髓 is the marrow; so the name is 'the disease that clings to the marrow'. Gao Shishi glosses it: the marrow is stored in the bone, hence the name. Zhang Jiebin: the evil lies so deep that it is called the marrow-adhering disease. The chapter gives you the diagnosis before the name — the shank aches severely and cannot be pressed — and then supplies the name, as if the name were the thing you would want once you had recognised it.

Shuowen

《說文解字》無「胕」字；「附」，附婁，小土山也，从阜付聲——**「胕」通「附」（「附」讀 fù），附著之義**。**「胕」讀 fù，本篇1見，讀 fù**——《中醫經典詞典》（人民衛生出版社）胕字條：「（三、fù）通『附』。附著。見『胕髓病』」；**胕另有讀 fū（同膚、同跗）、讀 fú（浮腫）者，此處皆不取**。「髓」讀 suǐ；「病」讀 bìng；「名」讀 míng；「曰」讀 yuē；「按」讀 àn；「不」讀 bù；「可」讀 kě。**「䯒痠痛甚，按之不可」八字是診，「名曰胕髓病」五字是名**——**《素問》命名之例，多先言其證而後出其名**，與本篇「舌下兩脉者，廉泉也」之先言法而後注名者，**同為由事而名之筆**。「䯒」讀 héng（「䯒」），脛骨上端，本站本篇已收；「痠」讀 suān，本站本篇已收。**其治在「以鑱鍼鍼絶骨出血」**——**病在髓，而取之於骨，是《素問》以骨治髓之法**。