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.
yù fā
The moment a pent-up qi lets go. The chapter treats it twice: once in the 治則 for 少陰司天, where the prescription is 折其鬱發，先取化源，無使暴過而生其病也; and once at the very end, in the five treatments, where 火鬱發之 is itself the cure for pent-up fire. Between the two sits the longest passage of the chapter, five paragraphs on 土鬱之發、金鬱之發、水鬱之發、木鬱之發、火鬱之發, each naming its sign in weather and in men and closing with its season and its number — 怫乃發也，其氣四. The chapter's whole account of disaster is the working out of these two graphs.
shèng fù
Prevalence and the answering return — the pair by which a qi that has overstepped is met by the qi that answers it. The chapter raises it only to say what cannot be done with it: 天地之氣，勝復之作，不形於診也, the arising of prevalence and revenge in the qi of heaven and earth does not take shape in the pulse. The Pulse Method is quoted to the same effect. It is the one place in the Suwen where the doctrine of the circuits is told plainly that it is not a matter for the wrist.