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.
fèi xiāo
Lung wasting: produced when the heart shifts cold into the lung. Its sign is that the patient voids more than he drinks, and the chapter judges it untreatable.
fèi fēng
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.
zhèng yǎn
Lying flat on the back — in this chapter a test rather than a posture. The person with wind water cannot do it; doing it brings on coughing because the water qi presses upward on the lung, and brings up clear water with the cough. The chapter pairs it with the swelling below the eyes: one sign above, one below, both read as water.
nüè
The intermittent fevers. The chapter's definition is behavioural rather than aetiological: heat and cold by turns, with intervals of rest between the fits. Everything else in the chapter — the daily or alternate-day timing, the fits creeping later and then earlier, the three named kinds — is an account of why a disease behaves like that.
nüè qì
The malarial evil, spoken of as a thing that moves. It lodges at a depth, and that depth decides everything: shallow means it keeps pace with the defensive qi and the fit is daily; deep means it cannot, and the fit comes every other day or every few days. It is exuberant and vacuous by turns, and which it is at a given moment determines heat or cold, a restless or a quiet pulse.
kuáng
Mania, as chapter 55 names it: not a temperament and not an attack of rage, but an illness of the yang vessels in which the partings are by turns cold and hot. The site already carries 怒狂 nù kuáng, rage and mania, the compound chapter 46 uses when yang qi is abruptly checked. Here the word stands alone, and the chapter's business with it is only this — needle so as to empty the vessel, and stop once the partings everywhere run hot.
míng
Darkness — either the failing of light or, in the variant graph, the closing of the eyes. Chapter 32 uses it once, in a heat disease that begins with heaviness, bone pain, deafness and a liking for darkness, and needles the foot shaoyin for it. The base text writes 暝 with the sun radical; many editions write 瞑 with the eye radical. The two are read alike and the difference barely matters clinically, but the site transcribes the one the base text has.
kǒu mí
Rotten ulceration of the mouth, appearing above when the bladder shifts heat into the small intestine and the intestine is blocked below. The base text writes 麋, glossed as 糜.
xíng bì
The obstruction in which wind qi prevails. The chapter sorts the three kinds by the agent that dominates rather than by the tissue: wind moves, so moving obstruction is the one whose pains shift from place to place. It is also the kind the chapter calls easiest to cure, because wind stays in the surface and the qi.
shuǐ jiāng bù rù
The terminal sign of the double-affected case in chapter 31: no fluid will go down and the patient recognises no one, and death follows on the sixth day. The chapter has already said that the double-affected patient cannot escape death; this line fixes the date and gives the sign by which the end is recognised. It also completes a thread running through the whole chapter — the return of appetite marks the turning point on the tenth day, and the loss of the ability to take anything marks the end here.
bù yuè
The chapter's word for a woman's menses stopping, and it comes in the same sentence as 隱曲: 二陽之病發心脾，有不得隱曲，女子不月. The disease begins in the heart and the spleen; the heart governs the blood and the spleen holds it, and the monthly flow fails. What gives the word its weight is where it stands. The same sentence sends the disease on into 風消 and then into 息賁, 死不治 — so in this chapter the failure of the menses is not a small complaint attached to a large one, but the first sign of a disease that goes on to dry the flesh out and then to kill. The chapter gives no treatment; it gives the sequence.