腸痺简体肠痹

cháng bì

Intestine obstruction

Also rendered: Intestine obstruction (this site; intestine for 腸, singular as in the five stores and six palaces) · Bowel obstruction (avoided on this site, since it now means something else in ordinary English)

Pathology

Reviewed · 2026-09

At a glance

Pinyin: cháng bì
Simplified: 肠痹
Literal: 腸痺 cháng bì — the first of the two palace obstructions. The chapter reaches the six palaces by a different road: not by season and tissue but by eating and drinking, which is why the palaces are entered through their transport points and not through the stores' matchings.
Shuowen: 《說文解字》：腸，大小腸也，从肉昜聲；痺，濕病也，从疒畀聲。「腸」讀 cháng、**本篇2見**——**「腸痺者」1見、「腸胃乃傷」1見**；「痺」讀 bì。「**腸痺者，數飲而出不得，中氣喘爭，時發飱泄**」——**「數」讀 shuò**，**「飱」讀 sūn**。

In brief

Obstruction lodged in the intestines. Its signs pair a thirst that does not come out the other way with a strife of the central qi, and the chapter adds the diarrhoea that now and then breaks out: the food comes out as it went in. It belongs to the two palace obstructions the chapter names, reached through eating and drinking rather than through a season.

Senses in the classical corpus

The graphs 腸、痺

腸者大小腸也，痺者濕病也

腸痺者，數飲而出不得 — Suwen 43

Drinking without passing 數飲而出不得

飲多而小便不利，中氣為之爭

數飲而出不得 — Suwen 43

The strife within 中氣喘爭

中氣與邪相爭，故喘而急

中氣喘爭 — Suwen 43

The diarrhoea 時發飱泄

飱讀 sūn，食不化而出

時發飱泄 — Suwen 43

How the palaces are entered 循俞而入，各舍其府

食飲應之，風寒濕氣中其俞

六府亦各有俞 — Suwen 43

Why eating is the root 此亦其食飲居處，爲其病本也

府病之來，由食飲居處失宜

此亦其食飲居處，爲其病本也 — Suwen 43

Occurrences in the classics

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Suwen 43 Suwen 43 · 痺論 Read in context →

凡痺之客五藏者，肺痺者，煩滿喘而嘔；心痺者，脉不通，煩則心下鼓，暴上氣而喘，嗌乾善噫，厥氣上則恐；肝痺者，夜卧則驚，多飲數小便，上爲引如懷；腎痺者，善脹，凥以代踵，脊以代頭；脾痺者，四支解墯，發欬嘔汁，上爲大塞；腸痺者，數飲而出不得，中氣喘爭，時發飱泄；胞痺者，少腹膀胱，按之内痛，若沃以湯，澀於小便，上爲清涕。凡痹之客五脏者，肺痹者，烦满喘而呕；心痹者，脉不通，烦则心下鼓，暴上气而喘，嗌干善噫，厥气上则恐；肝痹者，夜卧则惊，多饮数小便，上为引如怀；肾痹者，善胀，凥以代踵，脊以代头；脾痹者，四肢解惰，发咳呕汁，上为大塞；肠痹者，数饮而出不得，中气喘争，时发飧泄；胞痹者，少腹膀胱，按之内痛，若沃以汤，涩于小便，上为清涕。

Fán bì zhī kè wǔ zàng zhě, fèi bì zhě, fán mǎn chuǎn ér ǒu; xīn bì zhě, mài bù tōng, fán zé xīn xià gǔ, bào shàng qì ér chuǎn, yì gān shàn ài, jué qì shàng zé kǒng; gān bì zhě, yè wò zé jīng, duō yǐn shuò xiǎo biàn, shàng wéi yǐn rú huái; shèn bì zhě, shàn zhàng, jū yǐ dài zhǒng, jǐ yǐ dài tóu; pí bì zhě, sì zhī jiě duò, fā kài ǒu zhī, shàng wéi dà sè; cháng bì zhě, shuò yǐn ér chū bù dé, zhōng qì chuǎn zhēng, shí fā sūn xiè; bāo bì zhě, shào fù páng guāng, àn zhī nèi tòng, ruò wò yǐ tāng, sè yú xiǎo biàn, shàng wéi qīng tì.

For obstruction lodging in the five stores: lung obstruction is fullness and distress, panting and vomiting; heart obstruction is the vessels not passing through — distress brings a beating below the heart, sudden rising qi and panting, a dry pharynx and frequent belching, and when the counterflow qi rises, fear; liver obstruction is starting in the night, drinking much and passing water often, with a drawing upward that feels like carrying a child; kidney obstruction is a readiness to swell, the rump taking the place of the heel and the spine taking the place of the head; spleen obstruction is slackness of the four limbs, coughing and vomiting fluid, and great stoppage above; intestinal obstruction is drinking often and yet not passing it, the central qi contending with panting, and from time to time outflow diarrhea; bladder obstruction is pain within the lower abdomen and bladder when pressed, as though hot water had been poured in, rough passage of urine, and clear snivel above.

**「腸痺者，數飲而出不得，中氣喘爭，時發飱泄」——**「數」讀 shuò，**頻數也，此讀 shuò**——**本篇「數」2見，「多飲數小便」之「數」同讀**；「飱」讀 sūn，**底本作「飱」，食不化而出也**——**與 ch42「腸風飧泄」字異而實同**，**ch42 作「飧」，本篇从底本作「飱」，兩存其形**；**「爭」「爭」讀 zhēng**，**「泄」「泄」讀 xiè，**本篇1見**。

Compounds built on this term

腸痺

cháng bì

intestine obstruction

本篇六府痺之一

數飲而出不得

shuò yǐn ér chū bù dé

drinking often and passing nothing

本篇腸痺之首證

中氣喘爭

zhōng qì chuǎn zhēng

the central qi straining and panting

邪與正爭於中

時發飱泄

shí fā sūn xiè

from time to time, food-diarrhoea

飱讀 sūn

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

This site	intestine obstruction	the palaces are named as they are elsewhere on the site
Unschuld	intestine blockage	the same construction
Wiseman	intestine impediment	impediment for 痺

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