Classica Sinica Medica

解墯 简体 解惰

jiě duò

Laxness and listlessness

Also rendered: Laxness and listlessness (this site; 墯 taken as 惰) · Lassitude (the single word used where the slackness and the unwillingness are not separated)

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Reviewed · 2026-09-30

At a glance

Pinyin
jiě duò
Simplified
解惰
Literal
解墯 jiě duò — the body gone slack and unwilling, the word the chapter reaches for when the patient with wind from wine can neither hold himself together nor be bothered to. 墯 is the base text's own graph for 惰; 解 carries the sense of coming undone, and some readers take it as 懈.
Shuowen
《說文解字》：惰，不敬也，从心隋聲。「墯」讀 duò、**「惰」之異體，讀 duò**；「解」讀 jiě、**本篇惟此一見，讀 jiě，一說讀 xiè 而通「懈」**；**與本站第十六篇「令人解墯」、第四十三篇「四支解墯」同詞同讀**。

In brief

Lax, listless and unwilling to move — limbs that will not hold and a person who cannot be bothered. Chapter 46 lists it among the signs of wind from wine, alongside the bathing sweat and the scant breath. The site has met the same word in chapter 16 and chapter 43, and reads it the same way: 墯 is simply 惰 written the way this base text writes it.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
The two graphs 解、墯
解者散，墯者惰，肢體懈惰不用
有病身熱解墯 — Suwen 46
2
The reading jiě duò
解讀 jiě，一說讀 xiè 通「懈」；墯讀 duò
有病身熱解墯 — Suwen 46
3
What it accompanies 身熱
熱而懈惰，非單純之困倦
有病身熱解墯 — Suwen 46
4
What it accompanies 汗出如浴
汗多則氣隨之泄，故益見其惰
汗出如浴 — Suwen 46
5
What it accompanies 惡風少氣
惡讀 wù，少讀 shǎo，氣短而惡風
惡風少氣 — Suwen 46
6
The disease it belongs to 酒風
上四者合，乃名之曰酒風
病名曰酒風 — Suwen 46

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

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Suwen 46 Suwen 46 · 病能論 Read in context →
帝曰：善。有病身熱解墯，汗出如浴，惡風少氣。此爲何病？歧伯曰：病名曰酒風。 帝曰：善。有病身热解惰，汗出如浴，恶风少气。此为何病？歧伯曰：病名曰酒风。
Dì yuē: shàn. Yǒu bìng shēn rè jiě duò, hàn chū rú yù, wù fēng shǎo qì. Cǐ wéi hé bìng? Qí bó yuē: bìng míng yuē jiǔ fēng.
The Emperor says: good. Here is one with heat in the body, lax and listless, sweating as though from a bath, averse to wind and short of breath. What disease is this? Qi Bo says: the disease is named wind from wine.
**「有病身熱解墯，汗出如浴，惡風少氣」——**「墯」讀 duò、**「惰」之異體，讀 duò，本篇惟此一見**；「解」讀 jiě、**本篇惟此一見**；**「汗出如浴」之浴讀 yù，「惡風」之惡讀 wù，**「少氣」之少讀 shǎo 而與「少陰」「少陽」之 shào 異**。

Compounds built on this term

解墯
jiě duò
laxness and listlessness
酒風之形
身熱解墯
shēn rè jiě duò
heat in the body with laxness
本篇之文
四支解墯
sì zhī jiě duò
laxness of the four limbs
已見本站第四十三篇
令人解墯
lìng rén jiě duò
it makes a person lax
已見本站第十六篇

How it has been translated

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

This sitelaxness and listlessness解墯 rendered as two things at once, the limb gone slack and the person gone unwilling
Unschuldlaxnesshe renders the pair with a single word
Wisemanlimpness and lassitude解墯 in his system

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