Dan malaria · dan nüè

At a glance

Pinyin

dān nüè

Simplified

瘅疟

Literal

癉 dān, heat, exhaustion — the graph is 疒 plus 單, and the site reads it the same way in 消癉; 瘧 nüè, malaria. The third kind, and the one that stands outside the pairing of the other two: heat only, no cold at all. The chapter's explanation is that the yin qi has been cut off first, so the yang qi breaks out alone — there is no yin left for it to merge into, and merging into yin is what makes cold. The late passage gives it a lodging: inward in the heart, outward between the parted flesh, wasting and scorching a person until the flesh is stripped away.

Shuowen

《說文解字》：癉，勞病也，从疒，單聲——**勞而為病，故癉有「熱」「勞」二義**。「癉」讀 dān，本篇 4 見——**底本从疒从單，不作「瘅」（「瘅」）**；讀 dān，與本站所收「消癉」之癉同讀；**本篇之癉取「熱」義**，故下文曰「令人消爍脱肉」。**「癉瘧」二字本篇三見，命曰癉瘧一見**（名曰癉瘧、帝曰癉瘧何如、癉瘧者、故命曰癉瘧）。「陰」讀 yīn；「氣」讀 qì；「先」讀 xiān；**「絶」讀 jué，本篇惟此一見**——底本从糸从刀从卩，不作「絕」（「絕」）；「陽」讀 yáng；「獨」讀 dú，本篇 3 見；「發」讀 fā；「則」讀 zé；**「少」讀 shǎo，本篇惟此一見，讀 shǎo**——**本篇無經名之少，故無一讀 shào 者**；「煩」讀 fán；「冤」讀 yuān，本篇惟此一見，不作「寃」（「寃」）；「手」讀 shǒu；「足」讀 zú，本篇 6 見；「熱」讀 rè；「欲」讀 yù；「嘔」讀 ǒu，本篇惟此一見，不作「呕」（「呕」）；「名」讀 míng；「曰」讀 yuē；「瘧」讀 nüè。**「陰氣先絶」四字是癉瘧之眼**：**寒瘧、温瘧皆有寒有熱，以其陰陽俱在而相爭也；癉瘧之陰已絶，無可與爭，故但有陽之獨發**——**「絶」字一篇惟此一見，正為此證而設**。與第三十三篇「陰陽交」之「陰不勝陽」者異：**彼則陰不勝，此則陰先絶**。