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.
zhōng shǐ
The whole course of treatment, from the first stirring of disease to its resolution. 凡刺之道，畢于終始 — the way of needling is complete in beginning and end — and the method is then made concrete: hold the wrist pulse and the neck pulse, compare them, and you know which side is excessive. The chapter's arithmetic of one, two, three and four times is the working out of this single idea, and its closing signs describe what an end looks like when treatment has failed.
xià gé
The worm obstruction below the diaphragm: food goes down and comes back only after a full day — 晬時, the turn of a day. The delay is the diagnostic: in the upper obstruction the return is immediate, here it is late, because a mass has formed below and the road is narrowed. The chapter then explains it: when the man eats, the worms come up to eat; as they come up the lower stomach empties; emptied, it is overcome by evil qi, and accumulation, abscess and constriction follow in order.
dài mài
The vessel that girdles the waist and binds the others to it. The chapter's interest in it is mechanical: it draws the sinews up, and when yang brightness fails it stops drawing, so the legs lose their use even though nothing else has changed.
fǔ yǎng
Bending and lifting — in the chapter, what has to be rescued in wind from overexertion. The whole treatment of that disease is summed up in 以救俛仰, and the days to recovery are then counted by how well the great yang can draw the essence up. Whether it means the bending of the body or the rise and fall of breathing, the commentators have kept both.
bì
Two uses in one chapter. First, the mechanical one: blood congealed in the skin by wind after waking becomes 痺, in the vessels becomes stagnation, in the feet becomes reversal. Then four named diseases — heart, lung, liver and kidney obstruction — each of which is the answer to a colour and a pulse. The modern habit of rendering the word as painful obstruction imports a definition (pain, plus blockage) that this text never gives.
qī cāng
The bitter cold of water. In the chapter it is how cold gets into a body in summer: great summerheat brings sweat, the interstices open wide, and then one meets the bitter cold of water — bathing, or cold drink, or simply the chill of water in hot weather — and it lodges among the interstices and the skin until autumn's wind completes the disease.
bāo bì
Obstruction lodged in the bladder. The chapter localises it precisely — the lower belly where the bladder is, painful when pressed — and gives the two images that carry it: as though scalding water had been poured in, and urine that comes rough. Above, the clear snivel is what the same obstruction does at the other end.
jiǒng
Heat under a graph the rest of the Suwen hardly uses: sun over fire, read jiǒng. In chapter 39 it is the one thing that ends a pain, and also one of the nine qi that disorders it.
hè xī
Fire going to excess. 火曰赫曦 — fire is called blazing sunlight — and its 紀 is 蕃茂: 赫曦之紀，是謂蕃茂。陰氣内化，陽氣外榮，炎暑施化，物得以昌. The yin transforms within, the yang blooms without, the scorching heat spreads its transformations, and the things of the world come up thick — the excess of fire is told as a prosperity, because that is what it looks like from outside. Its attributes: 其化長，其氣高，其政動，其令鳴顯，其動炎灼妄擾…其象夏，其經手少陰、太陽，手厥陰、少陽，其藏心、肺…其病笑瘧、瘡瘍，血流，狂妄，目赤. Its viscera are the heart and the lung, the phase it overcomes with the phase it is; the illnesses are the blaze turned inward — laughing, malaria, sores, blood running, madness, red eyes. And where the short fire hides, this one ends by touching even the note it answers: 上羽與正徴同，其收齊，其病痓, and the reaping qi comes back late against it.
qiú
A nose stopped by cold. Chapter 49 gives it in the list that belongs to bright yang: when yang merges above, what is affected is the grandchild network of the greater yin, and the result is headache, blocked nose and swollen belly in one sentence.
xuè
What this chapter says about blood is all motion. It returns to the liver in sleep, and whatever it reaches can then do its work: the eye sees, the foot walks, the palm grips, the fingers take hold. Wind striking a body just woken congeals it, and where it congeals determines what follows — obstruction in the skin, stagnation in the vessels, reversal cold in the feet. All of blood belongs to the heart; all of qi belongs to the lung.
sōu xuè
Blood in the urine — 溲 sōu, to pass water; 血 xuè, blood — and this chapter names it once: 少陰有餘，病皮痺隱軫；不足，病肺痺；滑則病肺風疝，濇則病積溲血. It is the rough branch of the lesser yin, and it comes in the same breath as 積, accumulation — a rough pulse is short of blood, and what the chapter gives it is a gathering and a bleeding. The line can be read either way, as two things or as one thing and its discharge, and the base text writes them with no punctuation between them; both readings are kept here. The site reads 溲 as sōu, to urinate, as it has from chapter 37 onward. The same condition written with another graph — 溺血 niào xuè — is already an entry on this site; the two are not merged, because each is what its own base text writes.