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.
dǎn dān
The same word 癉 set in the gallbladder, showing itself as a bitter taste in the mouth. Chapter 47 gives the mechanism in one sentence: the liver is the general within, decision is taken from the gallbladder, and the throat is its envoy; someone who deliberates often and never decides empties the gallbladder, its qi overflows upward, and the mouth is bitter. The treatment is the gallbladder's alarm and transport points.
dà huò
Great confusion — in chapter 27, the name for a specific and serious failure: punishing where there is no fault. What makes it confusion rather than mere error is that the physician cannot distinguish the pairs: he takes repletion for vacuity, the evil for the true, following for going against. The consequence is not just that the treatment fails but that the great channels are thrown into disorder and the true qi cannot be restored. Note that the Lingshu has a chapter of the same name about a quite different matter — dizziness and forgetfulness — so the word is not automatically this chapter's sense.
dà lóu
A severe curvature of the spine. The chapter traces it to yang failing to open and close the pores, so that cold settles into the sinews and along the transport points.
dà hàn
The decisive sweat that marks recovery. Chapter 32 assigns each depot heat disease a day on which it worsens and a day on which the great sweat comes; the worsening day belongs to the phase that conquers the depot, the sweating day to the depot's own phase. The chapter states the rule twice more in general terms, which makes the great sweat the chapter's principal sign that the disease has turned. It is not the same thing as sweating as a symptom, and not the same as the final sweat of a dying patient.
dà fēng
The last and longest case in chapter 55, and the only one the chapter gives a calendar to: heavy joints, beard and eyebrows fallen out, and a treatment that runs in two halves of a hundred days each — needle the flesh until it sweats for a hundred days, then needle to the bone and marrow for another hundred — and stops when the beard and eyebrows grow again. Everything else in the chapter ends on 病已止, the illness done; this one ends on a sign that can only be seen after two hundred days.
kē jí
The chapter's word for the serious illness that does not arise — the one you avoid by following the seasons rather than by any treatment. The transmitted text varies between 苛 and 奇 here; both readings are recorded.
gǔ
The second name the chapter gives to the disease at the kidney stage. Wind-cold that was never treated passes from the spleen to the kidney, where it is called 疝瘕 — with smouldering heat and pain in the lower abdomen and a white discharge — and it is also called 蠱. The alternative name matters: 疝瘕 describes what can be felt, while 蠱 names what is presumed to be causing it. At this stage only pressing and medicine remain; the three options of the spleen stage have been reduced to two.
yǒng shuǐ
An illness of water: the belly is soft to the touch, water qi has lodged in the large intestine, and walking fast makes it slosh audibly. The fifth and last of the cold transmissions, from lung into kidney.
dà dīng
The boil that comes of eating too well. Suwen 3 lists it among the things that happen when the yang qi is opened and then met by something: sweat that meets dampness gives pimples and prickly heat, and rich food gives a great boil — and one takes it as though holding an empty vessel, which is to say that nothing in the body resists it. 丁 is read as 疔, the sore whose root goes deep.