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.
yíng huò
The planet Mars, the star of fire and of the south, and the one this chapter names most often of the five. Its name is its behaviour: a glimmer that confounds, because the red star wanders and doubles back and will not hold a course. Fire answers to it in surplus (歲火太過…上應熒惑星) and on revenge; metal falling short answers to it too, because fire is what rises against metal (歲金不及，炎火乃行…上應熒惑星). Twice in one paragraph, once for the circuit and once for what strikes it.
cái lì
The stock of strength a person is made of — the material side of the question the chapter asks about ageing. Huang Di's question puts it against the number of heaven: is an old man childless because his material strength is spent, or because that is the number? The answer is a count by sevens and eights, and a count answers both at once: what is spent is spent on a schedule.
láo yào
Wine in which a drug has been carried — the chapter's prescription for numbness, given together with pressing and rubbing. The chapter's fourteenth chapter already established the book's suspicion of wine as a drink and its respect for wine as a medium; here the two are settled into one practice, and the practice is chosen because of where the trouble lies: numbness is reached neither by the needle nor by a draft taken inward, so the drug is carried in through the skin. Read alongside the chapter's other prescriptions and the principle is constant — the treatment is chosen for the tissue, not for the named disease.
féng shí
Meeting the time is the rule the whole of chapter 76 exists to make possible. The defending qi travels fifty circuits a day, twenty-five in the yang by day and twenty-five in the yin by night; at any moment it is in one channel and not another. So 刺實者，刺其來也；刺虚者，刺其去也 — drain as the qi arrives, fill as it departs — and 謹𠉀氣之所在而刺之，是謂逢時: watch where the qi is and needle there, and that is meeting the time. The chapter then gives the clock, counting the water in the clepsydra from one mark to twenty-five and naming the channel the qi is in at each. Miss it and 失時反𠉀者，百病不治 — the timing is not a refinement of the method, it is the method.
mó
The thin sheet of flesh that joins the spleen to the stomach. Chapter 29 raises it as an objection — how can so slight a connection support so large a function? — and answers by pointing to the vessel instead: foot Taiyin penetrates the stomach, belongs to the spleen and networks the pharynx, and it is by that channel, not by the membrane, that the spleen moves the stomach's fluids. The passage is one of the clearest moments in the Suwen where an anatomical observation and a functional claim are set against each other and the functional claim wins.
mù yuán
A region rather than a point: the space between the parted flesh, reached when an evil pressing inward to the five stores links crosswise into it. The chapter brings it in to explain the alternate-day fit — the road is long, the qi deep, the movement slow, so the evil cannot travel with the defensive qi and cannot come all the way out each day.
chén xīng
The planet Mercury, the star of water and of the north, and the one whose name is a time of day. It keeps close to the sun and shows itself only at its hours, and so it became the marker of them. Water in surplus answers to it (歲水太過…上應辰星), fire falling short answers to it (歲火不及…上應辰星), and it comes back a third time for the cold that strikes back at metal (復則寒雨暴至…上應辰星). The chapter pairs it with 熒惑 more often than with any other star, because water and fire are the two that answer each other.
zhěn fǎ
The question that opens chapter 17 — 診法何如 — and the whole chapter is the answer. What Qibo gives is not a technique but a set of conditions: take the pulse at dawn, before food and movement have stirred the qi; and then always read four things together — the pulse, the eyes, the five colours, and the strength of the frame — cross-referencing them (參伍) before deciding anything. The chapter's word for the practice is 法, a standard: something fixed enough to be held to, not a knack.
shí yào
Mineral drugs: fierce in qi, forbidden where the body is already hot. Chapter 40 postpones rather than forbids — judge them again on the jia and yi days.
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.
xiàng huǒ
The second of the two fires, and the one that does the work. 相火以位 — the minister fire by its station — is half of a sentence whose other half is 君火以明: where the sovereign fire rules by giving light, the minister fire rules by holding the place it has been given and acting in it. This chapter gives it that place in so many words — 少陽之上，相火主之 — and it is worth noticing that in the chapter's own list of the six qi, the name that appears is 相火 and not 君火; lesser yin is given 熱氣, heat qi. The two fires are paired in the doctrine and not symmetrical in the list.
zá hé
The emperor's question has two halves, and they are not the same accusation. 智未及邪 asks whether Lei Gong's understanding falls short; 將言以雜合耶 asks whether, instead of speaking from what he knows, he will patch an answer together out of pieces. The second is the more serious charge, because it is the failure of the second of the four errors — 受師不卒，妄作雜術，謬言爲道 — where an unfinished education is covered over by borrowed fragments and given the name of a method. 雜合 is therefore not a neutral word for mixture: it is what a physician does when he has no whole to speak from. The same graph returns at the close of the chapter as 雜術, the counterfeit art, and the pair frames the four failures.