Each entry gives the term in traditional and simplified form, its pinyin, the senses it carries in the classical corpus, the passages where it does real work, and how published translations have rendered it.
shī
Dampness as a disease evil, and in chapter 29 the specific counterpart of wind. The chapter assigns the two by behaviour: yang receives wind qi and yin receives damp qi, and because wind is light and rises while damp is heavy and sinks, the one harmed by wind is affected above first and the one harmed by damp is affected below first. That single observation — two lines of the chapter — became the basis of everything later medicine says about where damp settles and how it is recognised. The chapter's damp arrives on the yin side, which is to say from the inside and from below.
rú xiè
Dampness soaking into the body and then draining out of it — the fifth of the chapter's five conquests, and the only one that names a discharge. Suwen 5 gives the run in a single sentence: wind overcomes and the body moves, heat overcomes and it swells, dryness overcomes and it dries, cold overcomes and it floats, dampness overcomes and it soaks and drains. The word holds both halves of what dampness does — it soaks first and drains afterwards — and this site's base text keeps the old graph 寫 where modern texts print 瀉. The chapter's other statement of the same relationship comes in the five phases: 濕傷肉，風勝濕.
dān nüè
Malaria with heat and no cold. The yin qi has been cut off first, so the yang qi breaks out alone: scant qi with fretting distress, heat in the hands and feet, a wish to vomit. The late passage locates it — inward in the heart, outward between the parted flesh — and names its end stage, wasting and scorching until the flesh is stripped off.
dàn dàn
A reduplicative describing a rocking, unsteady sensation, as of something adrift on water. Chapter 32 uses it once, in the kidney heat disease: when the qi counterflows the nape aches, spins, and will not be still. It is set beside 員員, which describes the turning, so that the two words together give the quality of the pain from two sides.
huán sǐ
The shortest of the chapter's death sentences and the worst: 中心者，環死. Strike the heart and the person dies within one circuit, which the commentary tradition takes as a single day, the qi going round once. It sits among intervals counted in days — five for the spleen and the lung, seven for the kidney, a year for the diaphragm. The chapter is doing arithmetic on dying, and 環 is its smallest unit.
bí yuān
A discharge from the nose that does not stop; produced when the gallbladder shifts heat into the brain. Still the standard Chinese medical name for chronic sinusitis.
xū xié zéi fēng
Pathogenic factors named for how they arrive: they strike where defence is thin (虛) and get in unnoticed (賊). The instruction that follows — avoidance in season (避之有時) — is the corpus's earliest statement of preventive regimen.
zhān yán
Raving, disordered speech. In chapter 31 it appears only in the double-affected case, on the second day, when 陽明 and 太陰 are both diseased and the patient has abdominal fullness, body heat, no desire to eat and delirious speech. The significance is prognostic rather than descriptive: delirious speech belongs to the three-day descent that ends with no fluid going down, failure to recognise anyone, and death on the sixth day. It is one of the signs that the disease has gone inward and cannot be sweated out.
diān
Derangement — the falling sickness. Chapter 40 names it as what mineral drugs produce in a body already hot, paired with the madness that aromatic herbs produce.
diān bìng
An illness named by how often it comes. Chapter 55 gives no seizure and no pulse for it — only a calendar running the wrong way: once a year at first, then once a month if it is not treated, then four or five times a month, and only then is it given its name. The treatment is as general as the description: needle the partings and the vessels, and where there is no cold in them, regulate with the needle. The site's 癲疾 entry takes the disease from chapter 28, where it is judged entirely by the pulse; this is the same disease seen through its intervals.
gé xiāo
Wasting at the diaphragm, produced when the heart shifts heat into the lung and the illness transmits. The heat counterpart of the chapter's 肺消.
xuàn xuàn
Dizziness in which the eyes will not hold steady — things swim. The chapter places it in the kidney malaria between the difficult stool and the cold extremities, so that the three signs together read as a body whose processes have closed down: below, above, and without.