Each entry gives the term in traditional and simplified form, its pinyin, the senses it carries in the classical corpus, the passages where it does real work, and how published translations have rendered it.
yē
Being overcome by summer heat, and the disease that follows. The book names it in four characters — the sun striking a person with heat — and describes it as fever with aching heaviness and a faint, weak pulse, brought on by summer heat or by cold water drunk in summer so that water moves through the skin. It is set beside spasm and dampness at the head of chapter four because all three resemble cold damage and are not it.
shēn zhòng
The body felt as heavy. The book gives it two causes that pull in opposite directions: in heatstroke it is damp-heat injuring the form, and comes with aching and a faint weak pulse; in wind warmth it is heat at its height clouding the spirit, and comes with drowsiness, snoring and difficulty speaking. The same word, and the treatment could hardly be more different — which is why the book never treats a sign alone.
fú liáng
A mass lying hidden across the belly. Chapter 40 gives the name to two different swellings and is chiefly concerned with what may not be done to either: do not press them, do not move them, do not seize at them in haste.
fú jiǎ
A concealed, shifting abdominal mass, named with 沈 as what the small intestine produces when it passes heat to the large intestine. 虙 is the base-text graph, glossed as 伏.
hóu bì
In the seventh chapter, what is produced when the first yin and the first yang knot together — ceasing yin and lesser yang. The throat closes: it swells, and the voice will not come out. It is the one entry in the chapter's list of knottings that pairs a yin with a yang rather than counting one side alone.
bì jué
Winter's pair: obstruction and inversion, named together. Suwen 4 lists them last in its catalogue of what each season is prone to, and last again in the catalogue of what a disciplined year avoids — 冬不病痺厥、飱泄而汗出也. Why the two are one subject is the chapter's own physics: winter stores, and the failure of storing is both a stopping and a reversal. What stops is the 痺; what reverses, so that the hands and feet go cold while the root is at fault, is the 厥. The site carries both graphs singly as well — 痺 as bi · obstruction, 厥 as inversion — and this entry is for the pair as the chapter uses it.
nèi fēng
Inner wind is the wind of the bedchamber: caught when the body has been opened by sweating and is therefore unprotected. It stands in the chapter's catalogue between leaking wind (caught drinking) and head wind (caught washing the hair) — each named for the act that left the body open.
bù rén
Numbness — the tissue that no longer reports. Chapter 24 gives it a cause and not merely a description: a body subjected repeatedly to fright and fear, in which the channels and networks no longer get through. The word is worth a note because it is the book's moral vocabulary turned to a clinical use, and because the chapter attributes it to a life rather than to a pathogen. It is also the only one of the five forms and wills whose treatment is entirely external, which follows: if the trouble is that the part does not answer, the methods are the ones that address it from the outside.
cháng yōng
Abscess within the bowel. Chapter 45 names it once, as the complication that makes counterflow inversion in lesser yang untreatable — the only entry in the catalogue with a prohibition rather than a treatment.
cháng pì
Dysentery — a flux from the bowel, carrying blood, white froth, or pus and blood. Chapter 28 treats it as a set piece, asking four questions in a row and matching what is passed against what the pulse is doing: with blood, heat in the body kills and coldness lets live; with white froth, a sunken pulse lives and a floating one dies; with pus and blood, a pulse hanging on the edge of breaking kills and a slippery large one lives; and when neither heat nor the hanging pulse is present, it comes back to the same test — slippery and large is life, hanging and rough is death.
cháng fēng
Intestinal wind is wind that has lingered long enough to reach the interior. Wang Bing gives the mechanism: with wind in the intestines the food is not transformed and passes out as it went in. It is the only entry in the chapter's catalogue of 'how it was caught' that is named for duration rather than for an act.
cháng bì
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.