The stomach house is full · wei jia shi

At a glance

Pinyin

wèi jiā shí

Simplified

胃家实

Literal

胃 wèi is the stomach; 家 jiā is a household, and in medical usage a domain taken as one body — here the stomach together with the great intestine. 實 shí is solid, replete, the contrary of 虚. The phrase therefore names no single symptom but the state of a whole domain: heat and matter have filled it. It is the one sentence by which the yang brightness chapter defines itself, and every later sign in that chapter is a way of recognising it.

Shuowen

**《說文》：「胃，穀府也。」「實，富也。」** 本書「胃家」統胃與大腸而言，非止一府。成無己注：「胃爲水穀之海，主養四旁，故陽明之爲病，胃家實也。」**六至十篇經文共2見**（第八篇二見），一爲提綱，一爲三陽明之分。**與「脾約」對舉**：脾約者津液偏滲、大便但鞕，胃家實者燥屎内結、按之鞕滿，一潤一攻，界在津液之存亡。**與「燥屎」相因**：胃家實言其地，燥屎言其物。