肺風简体肺风

fèi fēng

Lung wind · fei feng

Also rendered: Lung wind (this site; fei feng given at the headword) · Wind in the lung (the plainer rendering)

Pathology

Reviewed · 2026-09

At a glance

Pinyin: fèi fēng
Simplified: 肺风
Literal: 肺風 fèi fēng — wind lodged in the lung. Chapter 42 gives it the shape it gives every store wind: sweating and loathing of wind, then the signs proper to the store, then the place on the face where it is read, then the colour.
Shuowen: 《說文解字》：肺，金藏也。从肉巿聲。「肺」讀 fèi，**本篇2見**：**「爲肺風」「肺風之狀」**；**「皏」讀 pěng**（普幸切）——**王冰「皏，謂薄白色也」**；**「差」讀 chài，同「瘥」**；**「欬」讀 kài**；**「惡」讀 wù**。

In brief

Lung wind is the first of the five store winds chapter 42 describes. It is pale rather than flushed, worse in the evening than by day, and read above the eyebrows. Wang Bing explains the evening worsening: by day yang qi is at the surface, at evening it goes inward and the wind answers it.

Senses in the classical corpus

What the graph says 肺

金藏也，从肉巿聲

肺風之狀 — Suwen 42

The signs every store wind shares 多汗惡風

五藏之風無不多汗而惡風

肺風之狀，多汗惡風 — Suwen 42

The lung's own colour 色皏然白

皏讀 pěng，薄白色；肺色白

色皏然白 — Suwen 42

The lung's own complaint 時欬短氣

肺主氣，故欬而氣短

時欬短氣 — Suwen 42

Its timing 晝日則差，暮則甚

差讀 chài；晝則陽氣在表，暮則入裏

晝日則差，暮則甚 — Suwen 42

Where it is read 診在眉上，其色白

王冰：兩眉間之上，闕庭之部

診在眉上 — Suwen 42 (Wang Bing)

Occurrences in the classics

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歧伯曰：肺風之狀，多汗惡風，色皏然白，時欬短氣，晝日則差，暮則甚，診在眉上，其色白。歧伯曰：肺风之状，多汗恶风，色皏然白，时咳短气，昼日则差，暮则甚，诊在眉上，其色白。

Qí bó yuē: fèi fēng zhī zhuàng, duō hàn wù fēng, sè pěng rán bái, shí kài duǎn qì, zhòu rì zé chài, mù zé shèn, zhěn zài méi shàng, qí sè bái.

Qi Bo says: in lung wind the patient sweats freely and loathes wind; the complexion is a pale washed-out white; there is coughing at times and shortness of breath. By day it abates, at evening it worsens. It is diagnosed above the eyebrows, and the colour is white.

**「色皏然白」之「皏」讀 pěng**——**《太素》注「普幸反」，《廣雅》「皏，白也」，王冰「皏，謂薄白色也」**；**「晝日則差」之「差」讀 chài，同「瘥」，病減也，不讀 chā**；**「時欬短氣」之「欬」讀 kài**——**本站欬論（第三十八篇）已立目**。

Compounds built on this term

肺風

fèi fēng

lung wind

本篇二見

色皏然白

sè pěng rán bái

a pale washed-out white

肺風之色

時欬短氣

shí kài duǎn qì

coughing at times, short of breath

肺風之證

晝日則差

zhòu rì zé chài

by day it abates

差讀 chài

How it has been translated

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

This site	lung wind	translated, with fei feng at the headword
Unschuld	lung wind	the same
Wiseman	lung wind	the same

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