Classica Sinica Medica

泄風 简体 泄风

xiè fēng

Outpouring wind · xie feng

Also rendered: Outpouring wind (this site; xie feng given at the headword) · Dispersing wind (keeps the sense of 泄 as letting out)

Pathology

Reviewed · 2026-09

At a glance

Pinyin
xiè fēng
Simplified
泄风
Literal
泄風 xiè fēng — wind lodged in the interstices, whose sweat runs and soaks the upper garments. The chapter's last of the named winds, and the only one that ends in cold: when the whole body aches, there is cold.
Shuowen
《說文解字》：渫，除去也；泄，水名，从水世聲——醫書借「泄」為發泄、漏泄之字。「泄」讀 xiè，**讀 xiè，本篇8見**；**「泄風」二見**：**「則爲泄風」「泄風之狀」**；**「漬」讀 zì**——**「上漬」謂身上如被水所浸漬**；**「盡」讀 jìn**。

In brief

Outpouring wind is wind lodged in the interstices: Wang Bing’s gloss turns on the word 泄 — with wind in the interstices the sweat pores open and the sweat is driven out, which is why it is called outpouring. Its signs are sweat that soaks the clothes, a dry mouth, and an inability to labour.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
What the graph says 泄
說文本為水名，醫書借為發泄之義
則爲泄風 — Suwen 42
2
Where it lodges 外在腠理
風在腠理，不在藏府
外在腠理 — Suwen 42
3
Why it pours 風居腠理則玄府開通，風薄汗泄
王冰釋「泄」之義
則爲泄風 — Suwen 42 (Wang Bing)
4
The first sign 汗出泄衣上
汗多而泄於衣
汗出泄衣上 — Suwen 42
5
The second sign 口中乾上漬
口中發乾，身如被水漬
口中乾上漬 — Suwen 42
6
How it ends 身體盡痛則寒
一身盡痛，痛則惡寒
身體盡痛則寒 — Suwen 42

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

Display
1 passages
Suwen 42 Suwen 42 · 風論 Read in context →
泄風之狀，多汗，汗出泄衣上，口中乾上漬，其風，不能勞事，身體盡痛則寒。 泄风之状，多汗，汗出泄衣上，口中干上渍，其风，不能劳事，身体尽痛则寒。
Xiè fēng zhī zhuàng, duō hàn, hàn chū xiè yī shàng, kǒu zhōng gān shàng zì, qí fēng, bù néng láo shì, shēn tǐ jìn tòng zé hán.
In outpouring wind the patient sweats freely; the sweat runs and soaks his upper garments; his mouth is dry and the body feels as though steeped in water. With this wind he cannot labour; when the whole body aches, there is cold.
**「外在腠理，則爲泄風」——「腠理」已立目**（第三十九篇）；**「口中乾上漬」之「漬」讀 zì**——**王冰「上漬，謂皮上濕如水漬也」**；**「身體盡痛則寒」——「盡」讀 jìn**；**本篇「泄」8見，皆讀 xiè，不作「洩」**。

Compounds built on this term

泄風
xiè fēng
outpouring wind
本篇二見
外在腠理
wài zài còu lǐ
lodged outward in the interstices
泄風之位
汗出泄衣上
hàn chū xiè yī shàng
the sweat soaks the upper garments
泄風之狀
身體盡痛則寒
shēn tǐ jìn tòng zé hán
the whole body aches and there is cold
泄風之結

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

This siteoutpouring windtranslated, with xie feng at the headword
Unschuldoutpouring windthe same
Wisemandispersing windthe same graph read by its verb

Entry status

Review pending — who reviews this?

2026-09

Search the glossary

Reading path

Guided routes through the corpus, each built on a handful of chapters and their key terms.

See all reading paths