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.
àn qiāo
Pressing and treading — the hands' art and the feet's art in a single word, what later ages separate into 按摩 and 導引. Suwen 4 names it once and makes the name a rule: 故冬不按蹻，春不鼽衄. The point is the season, not the technique. Winter stores, and this chapter's whole argument is that what is stored must not be scattered; 按蹻 is named because it scatters. Kept, the winter hands on a spring with no snivelling nosebleed and no disease of the nape — which is the same promise the chapter makes about 精 two paragraphs later, when it says that the one who stores the essence does not fall ill of warmth in spring.
pǔ
The chapter's word for people who have not been worked on: their food seems fine, their clothes sufficient, and high and low do not envy one another. It is a description of a social condition, not a mystical state.
què lǎo
Pushing back age — what Suwen 1 says the person who has the way can do, and the one exception it allows to its own counts. Such a person can push back age and keep the body whole, and though his years be long he can still beget children. The chapter has just set a bound — a man does not pass sixty-four, a woman not forty-nine — and this is the answer to whether the bound is absolute: it holds for everyone except the one who has the way.