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.
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.
jué
Reversal: a failure of the qi at the root that shows itself in the extremities — cold hands and feet, or hot soles, and in its counterflow form, loss of awareness. Chapter 45 is the Suwen's treatise on it, and it gives the word one anatomy: the lower body, the foot, and the paths yin and yang take through them. The site renders 厥 inversion throughout, following the existing entries for 煎厥 and 薄厥.
yí niào
Losing urine involuntarily while coughing — the sign of bladder cough, which arises when a kidney cough has gone on long enough to pass into the palace paired with the kidney.
shēng tiě luò
The scale that falls from iron in the forge, given as a drink. Chapter 46 prescribes it for yang inversion — the rage and mania born of yang qi that has been abruptly checked — and the reason it gives is the property later books repeat: iron is heavy, and it carries qi downward fast. It belongs to the mineral drugs, a class the site has met before in 石藥.
fā chén
The name Suwen 2 gives to the three months of spring, and the first of the four season names that structure the chapter. What the winter stored, the spring sends out. The rule the chapter draws from it is the rule for spring: sleep at night and rise early, walk in the courtyard, let the hair down and slacken the body, let things live and do not kill them — and if you do not, the liver is harmed and summer brings a cold change.
yù bǎn
What the chapter's title is named for, and the chapter's claim about itself: these essentials are 著之玉版, inscribed on jade, so that they will survive. It is the same gesture the book makes in chapter 8 with 靈蘭之室, the chamber where the treatise is stored — a text declaring that what it contains is worth the most durable material available. The rest of the chapter is short, dense and hard, which is the point.
dǎn
Jaundice, in three signs. Chapter 18 gives urine that is yellow and red while the patient lies quietly; eyes that are yellow; and 胃疸, hunger returning as soon as food has been taken, which is the central wasting under another name. One point about the text: the first of these is written in the base text with 疽 , the graph for a deep abscess, while the third is written with 疸 , the graph 說文 glosses as 黃病也. The two are kept as the base text gives them and the difference noted, since 疸 is plainly what the chapter means in both places.
jiǎ
The gathering chapter 48 sets against shan: it comes of a small, tight pulse that fails to beat up under the finger, and the chapter names it both from the three pulses that share that shape and from tightness in the third yang. The distinguishing mark is 不鼓 — the pulse does not rise — which is exactly what the large tight pulse of shan does.
jiē nüè
The opening word of the chapter and the only time it appears. Strictly the tertian malaria, every other day; here it stands for malaria in general, which is why the rest of the chapter can simply say 瘧. The question hung on it is not where malaria comes from — everyone knows it comes from wind — but why it keeps a schedule.
jīng
The stored, refined reserve of the body: slow to build, quickly spent. In this chapter it is what the intemperate exhaust through desire — a quantity that can run down, which is exactly why regimen matters.
jū
The seat — the part one sits on, and the older form of 居. Chapter 41 names it twice: in the first entry the pain draws up through the seat, and in the last the needle goes where the lower back and the seat meet.