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.
tiān nián
The span allotted at birth: a hundred, in this chapter. It functions as a measure rather than a promise — the chapter's question is why people fall short of it, and the answer it gives is conduct.
fāng cǎo
The fragrant, warming herbs. Chapter 40 forbids them in heat-within and wasting-within: their qi is swift and hard, and in a body already hot they drive the patient to madness.
kuí duó
One of the two arts the chapter sets side by side, and the one that answers the ordinary clinical question: how deep does this go? Qibo's definition is a single clause — 揆度者，度病之淺深也. The chapter then does something more interesting with it: it refuses to let the two arts stay separate, and says that colour, pulse, assessment and the anomalous are all one dao. 揆度 is the measuring half of that pair; 奇恒 is the half that names what cannot be measured by the rule.
zhōng shǐ
The whole course of treatment, from the first stirring of disease to its resolution. 凡刺之道，畢于終始 — the way of needling is complete in beginning and end — and the method is then made concrete: hold the wrist pulse and the neck pulse, compare them, and you know which side is excessive. The chapter's arithmetic of one, two, three and four times is the working out of this single idea, and its closing signs describe what an end looks like when treatment has failed.
qī cāng
The bitter cold of water. In the chapter it is how cold gets into a body in summer: great summerheat brings sweat, the interstices open wide, and then one meets the bitter cold of water — bathing, or cold drink, or simply the chill of water in hot weather — and it lodges among the interstices and the skin until autumn's wind completes the disease.
xuè
What this chapter says about blood is all motion. It returns to the liver in sleep, and whatever it reaches can then do its work: the eye sees, the foot walks, the palm grips, the fingers take hold. Wind striking a body just woken congeals it, and where it congeals determines what follows — obstruction in the skin, stagnation in the vessels, reversal cold in the feet. All of blood belongs to the heart; all of qi belongs to the lung.
yǒng qiè
Temperament treated as a clinical datum. Everything chapter 21 lists — walking at night, falling, taking fright, wading into water — happens to everyone; what differs is what happens next. In the brave the qi moves through and the matter closes; in the timid it lodges, and a lodging becomes a disease. So the chapter makes this the announced rule of examination: look at whether a person is bold or timid, and at the state of bone, flesh and skin, and you have the method. Note that the pair is not a judgement: the text never praises one side, it only says the prognosis is written there.
jiǔ ruò
The therapy of the north. The land is high, the people sleep out in the open and live on milk, the cold settles into the storing organs and they swell. What is cold is warmed by burning. Wang Bing: burning with fire and mugwort is what is meant by cautery, and he notes that people of the north still practise it. The base text writes the word 爇; the received text writes 焫. They are the same word.
jiǔ cì
The pair of external methods the Suwen sets against drugs: burning moxa and needling. Chapter 24 reaches for it twice — once as the treatment for disease of the vessels, and once as what the back transport points are measured for. The graph the base text writes deserves a note of its own: 剌 with the phonetic 束 is a separate word meaning perverse, and it stands here for 刺, to pierce. Every one of the chapter's eight occurrences is to be read cì, and the closing six-channel rules settle it — they are rules about letting blood, and 剌 là would make nonsense of them.
cì
The graph that the 1550 base text writes where modern texts write 刺, to needle. It is a scribal variant, not a different word: throughout this chapter it is read cì and means the act of needling a channel. Chapter 32 is built on it — the title itself means needling heat, and the chapter's whole procedure is to name the channel to be needled for each depot's heat disease. The site transcribes the base graph and reads the intended word.
jié jìng fǔ
The lower half of the chapter's treatment for oedema: drain the bladder. Chapter 8 had already given the bladder its office — 州都之官, the regional capital where fluids gather and are let out by qi transformation. Chapter 14 draws the therapeutic consequence: clean it out. Sweating above and draining below, and then the essence can be taken up in season.
miù cì
The needling method named in the chapter's prescription, and distinct from ordinary needling: the puncture is made on the side opposite the disease, and — in the later chapter devoted to it — in the surface network vessels rather than the channels. Here it is only one item in a sequence: remove the accumulation, move the limbs gently, keep the clothing warm, needle across, and the frame comes back.