jié yīn
Also rendered: Knotted yin (this site; literal, and it keeps 結 as the same word as in 結陽, which is what makes the pair readable) · Jie yin (transliteration; how the pair appears wherever the chapter's six knottings are listed out)
Reviewed · 2026-10-11
At a glance
What is knotted on the yin side, and the sign is blood passing below: 結陰者便血一升，再結二升，三結三升 — knotted yin passes a pint of blood, knotted a second time two pints, knotted a third time three. The disease and its quantity are given together, and the arithmetic is the chapter’s way of saying that the knot deepens. Set beside 結陽者，腫四支 it makes the pair that the paragraph is built on: a knot in the yang shows as swelling, where yang runs; a knot in the yin shows as blood, which is what the yin stores. 升 is a measure of capacity, and the chapter counts in it rather than saying ‘much’ or ‘little’.
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 | knotted yin | 陰 is where the blood is stored and 結 is the knot; the word is one half of a pair, and reading it apart from 結陽 would lose the pair |
| Transliteration | jie yin | how the phrase is written in lists of the chapter's knottings; right about the referent, and it hides the blood |
| Descriptive | bleeding below from yin stagnation | exact, and it drops the wine measure that makes the chapter's arithmetic visible |
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