Classica Sinica Medica

肺疝

fèi shàn

Lung shan

Also rendered: Lung shan (this site; the viscus named as the chapter names it, the disease kept in pinyin) · Pulmonary shan (where the Latin-derived adjective is preferred)

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Reviewed · 2026-10-01

At a glance

Pinyin
fèi shàn
Simplified
肺疝
Literal
肺疝 fèi shàn — the second of chapter 48's two named shan, given in the same sentence as the first and separated from it only by the pulse: 肺脉沈搏, a lung pulse that is sunken and beating hard. The pair is the chapter's whole argument in miniature — one disease name, two viscera, and nothing but the pulse to tell them apart.
Shuowen
《說文解字》：肺，金藏也，从肉巿聲。「肺」讀 fèi、**本篇三見**（肺滿、肺之雍、肺疝）；「疝」讀 shàn、**本篇四見**。

In brief

The shan of the lung: chapter 48 assigns it to a lung pulse that is sunken and beating hard, in the same sentence that assigns heart shan to a heart pulse that is racing, slippery and tight. The disease is one, the two viscera are named by the pulse alone.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
The graph 肺疝
肺之疝，以肺脉沈搏定之
肺脉沈搏，爲肺疝 — Suwen 48
2
Its pulse 沈搏
脉沈而搏擊應手
肺脉沈搏 — Suwen 48
3
Set beside heart shan 與心疝對舉
同稱疝，而心肺以脉別
心脉搏滑急，爲心疝；肺脉沈搏，爲肺疝 — Suwen 48
4
Where the name comes from 以脉定藏
非據所苦，據脉之形
心脉搏滑急，爲心疝；肺脉沈搏，爲肺疝 — Suwen 48
5
Inside the chapter's method 藏府皆以脉斷
本篇通例，疝其一爾
皆爲疝 — Suwen 48
6
What it shares 疝
與心疝同名，皆聚而痛
皆爲疝 — Suwen 48

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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Suwen 48 Suwen 48 · 大奇論 Read in context →
腎脉大急沈，肝脉大急沈，皆爲疝。心脉搏滑急，爲心疝；肺脉沈搏，爲肺疝。 肾脉大急沉，肝脉大急沉，皆为疝。心脉搏滑急，为心疝；肺脉沉搏，为肺疝。
Shèn mài dà jí chén, gān mài dà jí chén, jiē wéi shàn. Xīn mài bó huá jí, wéi xīn shàn; fèi mài chén bó, wéi fèi shàn.
A large, hurried and sunken kidney or liver vessel is mounting illness. A heart vessel that beats up, slippery and hurried, is heart mounting; a lung vessel sunken and beating up is lung mounting.
**「肺脉沈搏，爲肺疝」——**「肺」讀 fèi、**本篇三見**；「疝」讀 shàn、**本篇四見**；**「沈搏」二字本篇惟此一見，與上句「搏滑急」相對**。

Compounds built on this term

肺疝
fèi shàn
lung shan
本篇惟此一見
心疝
xīn shàn
heart shan
同句對舉
肺脉沈搏
fèi mài shěn bó
lung pulse sunken and beating
肺疝之脉
沈搏
shěn bó
sunken and beating
沈而搏擊之脉

How it has been translated

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

This sitelung shanthe viscus in English, the disease in pinyin, matching how the chapter pairs the two
Unschuldlung shan illnesshe adds the class word to the transliterated name
Wisemanlung shanhis system transliterates 疝 in every compound

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