Yixi · yi xi

At a glance

Pinyin

yī xī

Simplified

譩譆

Literal

譩 yī — 《廣韻》於其切; the graph is 言 with 意 beside it, a sound that comes out of a person. 譆 xī — 《廣韻》許其切; 說文 gives it as 痛也, a cry of pain, and it is 言 with 喜 beside it. Neither graph names a place or a part of the body; both name a noise. This is the one point in the book that is called after what the patient says rather than after what it looks like, and the chapter shows you why: 厭之，令病者呼譩譆，譩譆應手 — press along the back and tell him to call out, and the place that answers under your hand is the point. The name and the method are the same thing. 後世 writes the point 譩譆 and keeps it as the forty-fifth point of the bladder channel, but the chapter does not number it; it only gives its place, 在背下俠脊傍三寸所, and its two uses — burnt for 大風汗出, needled when the flank pulls the lower belly into painful swelling. The 2004 standard reads the name yì xī. The 廣韻 readings, yī and xī, are the ones kept here; both are recorded.

Shuowen

「譩」讀 yī、**讀 yī，《廣韻》於其切；从言意聲，本篇「譩」5見**；「譆」讀 xī、**讀 xī，《廣韻》許其切；《說文》訓「痛也」，从言喜聲；本篇「譆」5見**；**《中醫藥學名詞》2004 作 yì xī，與《廣韻》之讀並存，此从 yī xī**；「厭」讀 yàn、**「厭之」之厭讀 yàn，按捺也；《素問譯釋》音 yè，通「擪」，二說並存**；「呼」讀 hū、**「令病者呼譩譆」之呼讀 hū**；「應」讀 yìng、**「譩譆應手」之應讀 yìng**；「手」讀 shǒu、**本篇「手」1見**；「背」讀 bèi、**「在背下」之背讀 bèi**；「俠」讀 xié、**「俠脊」之俠讀 xié，本篇「俠」7見**；「脊」讀 jǐ、**「俠脊」之脊讀 jǐ**；「傍」讀 bàng、**「傍三寸所」之傍讀 bàng，通「旁」**；「所」讀 suǒ、**「三寸所」之所讀 suǒ，許也，不定之辭**；「灸」讀 jiǔ、**「灸譩譆」之灸讀 jiǔ，本篇「灸」24見**；「刺」讀 cì、**「刺譩譆」之刺讀 cì**；「大」讀 dà、「風」讀 fēng、**「大風汗出」：本篇「大風」2見**；「汗」讀 hàn、**「大風汗出」之汗讀 hàn**；「䏚」讀 miǎo、**「䏚絡季脅」之䏚讀 miǎo**；「脅」讀 xié、**「季脅」之脅讀 xié**；「少」讀 shào、**「引少腹」之少讀 shào，部位之稱，不作多少之 shǎo**