Classica Sinica Medica

心風 简体 心风

xīn fēng

Heart wind · xin feng

Also rendered: Heart wind (this site; xin feng given at the headword) · Wind in the heart (the plainer rendering)

Pathology

Reviewed · 2026-09

At a glance

Pinyin
xīn fēng
Simplified
心风
Literal
心風 xīn fēng — wind lodged in the heart: the lips scorched and their lines broken, a temper that shouts people down, and in severe cases speech that will not come freely.
Shuowen
《說文解字》：心，人心，土藏，在身之中，象形；博士說以為火藏。「心」讀 xīn，**本篇2見**：**「爲心風」「心風之狀」**；**「焦」讀 jiāo**、**「絶」讀 jué**——**「焦絶」，王冰「謂唇焦而紋理斷絶也」**；**「嚇」讀 hè**（呼格切），**通「赫」**。

In brief

Heart wind is the second store wind. Where the others show a colour, this one shows a temper: Wang Bing’s gloss on 焦絶 makes the lips scorched and their lines broken, and 善怒嚇 makes the patient quick to anger and to shout. It is diagnosed at the mouth, because the heart governs the tongue.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
What the graph says 心
人心，在身之中，象形
心風之狀 — Suwen 42
2
The signs every store wind shares 多汗惡風
五藏之風無不多汗而惡風
心風之狀，多汗惡風 — Suwen 42
3
What the heat does 焦絶
王冰：唇焦而紋理斷絶，熱則皮剝
焦絶 — Suwen 42 (Wang Bing)
4
What the temper does 善怒嚇
風薄於心則神亂，故怒而嚇人
善怒嚇 — Suwen 42 (Wang Bing)
5
What severe disease does 言不可快
心脉上俠咽喉而主舌
病甚則言不可快 — Suwen 42 (Wang Bing)
6
Where it is read 診在口，其色赤
口唇色赤，故診在焉
診在口 — Suwen 42 (Wang Bing)

Occurrences in the classics

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

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心風之狀，多汗惡風，焦絶，善怒嚇，赤色。病甚則言不可快，診在口，其色赤。 心风之状，多汗恶风，焦绝，善怒吓，赤色。病甚则言不可快，诊在口，其色赤。
Xīn fēng zhī zhuàng, duō hàn wù fēng, jiāo jué, shàn nù hè, chì sè.Bìng shèn zé yán bù kě kuài, zhěn zài kǒu, qí sè chì.
In heart wind the patient sweats freely and loathes wind; the lips are scorched and their lines broken; he is quick to anger and to shout people down; the colour is red. In severe cases speech will not come freely. It is diagnosed at the mouth, and the colour is red.
**「焦絶」——王冰「焦絶，謂唇焦而紋理斷絶也。何者？熱則皮剝故也」**；**「善怒嚇」之「嚇」讀 hè**——**《內經難字音義》「呼格切，與赫通」**；**新校正：《甲乙經》無「嚇」字**，《太素》作「怒赫」；**「絶」為本站通例之字，不作「絕」**。

Compounds built on this term

心風
xīn fēng
heart wind
本篇二見
焦絶
jiāo jué
scorched and broken
王冰「唇焦而紋理斷絶也」
善怒嚇
shàn nù hè
quick to anger and to shout
嚇讀 hè，通赫
言不可快
yán bù kě kuài
speech will not come freely
心主舌之故

How it has been translated

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

This siteheart windtranslated, with xin feng at the headword
Unschuldheart windthe same
Wisemanheart windthe same

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