pēi xuè
Also rendered: Clotted blood (plain and exact) · Congealed blood (the Shuowen wording) · Blood clot (the object rather than the condition)
Reviewed · 2026-10-25
At a glance
Blood that has come out and congealed. The chapter uses it twice in one entry on nosebleed that will not stop: while the clotted blood is still flowing, take the foot greater yang; for the clot itself, take the hand greater yang; if that fails, prick below the wrist bone; if that fails, bleed the popliteal hollow. The word is precise and the sequence is the point — a nosebleed that has begun to clot is no longer the same condition as one that runs, and the channel changes with it.
Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.
Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.
| This site | clotted blood | the Shuowen gloss |
| Literal | pei blood | exact, and it needs the gloss |
| Clinical | clotted epistaxis | clear, and it narrows the site |
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