Pimples and prickly heat

Also rendered: acne and miliaria (clinical usage) · cuo fei (Pinyin)

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Reviewed · 2026-09

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Pinyin: cuó fèi
Simplified: 痤疿
Literal: 痤 is a small swelling or acne; 疿 is prickly heat, heat rash.

In brief

Skin eruptions of the sweat ducts. In this chapter they come from sweat meeting dampness, or from the sweat of labour meeting wind so that the cold presses the eruption back into the skin.

Senses in the classical corpus

Acne and heat rash 痤疿

Eruptions produced when sweat meets damp or wind.

汗出見濕，乃生痤疿。 — Suwen 3

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素問·生氣通天論 Suwen 3 · 生氣通天論 Read in context →

汗出偏沮，使人偏枯。汗出見濕，乃生痤疿。高梁之變，足生大丁，受如持虚。勞汗當風，寒薄爲齇，鬱乃痤。汗出偏沮，使人偏枯。汗出见湿，乃生痤疿。高梁之变，足生大丁，受如持虚。劳汗当风，寒薄为齇，郁乃痤。

Hàn chū piān jǔ, shǐ rén piān kū. hàn chū jiàn shī, nǎi shēng cuó fèi. gāo liáng zhī biàn, zú shēng dà dīng, shòu rú chí xū. láo hàn dāng fēng, hán bó wéi zhā, yù nǎi cuó.

If one half of the body sweats and the other does not, the person wastes away on that side. Sweating that meets dampness brings pimples and prickly heat. Fine grain and rich meat suffice to raise a great boil on the foot; one takes it up as though holding an empty vessel. When the sweat of toil meets wind and cold presses in, there is redness of the nose; if it builds up, there are pimples.

「乃生痤疿」——痤讀 cuó，疿讀 fèi；汗出見濕，乃生痤疿；下文「鬱乃痤」之痤同；**「痤疿」本篇1見**

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