Classica Sinica Medica

酒風 简体 酒风

jiǔ fēng

Wind from wine

Also rendered: Wind from wine (this site; the wind is taken to follow the drink) · Alcohol wind (where the cause is named as the substance rather than the practice)

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Reviewed · 2026-09-30

At a glance

Pinyin
jiǔ fēng
Simplified
酒风
Literal
酒風 jiǔ fēng — the last named disease of the chapter, and the one that comes with a prescription. The signs are unmistakable: heat in the body with a lax, listless limbs, sweat pouring as though from a bath, dislike of wind and scant breath. Wine opens the pores, and wind comes in after it.
Shuowen
《說文解字》：酒，就也，所以就人性之善惡，从水从酉，酉亦聲。「酒」讀 jiǔ、**本篇惟此一見**；「風」讀 fēng、**本篇2見**，**一在「酒風」、一在「惡風」**；**「解墯」讀 jiě duò，見本目之義項三**。

In brief

Wind that has entered a body opened by drink: fever, lassitude, profuse sweating, aversion to wind and shortness of breath. The treatment the chapter gives is the earliest surviving formula for it — ze xie and zhu, ten parts each, with mi xian five parts, a three-finger pinch taken after the meal. Two of the three drain and dry; the point is to empty the damp that wine has left behind.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
The two graphs 酒、風
酒開腠理，風因入之
病名曰酒風 — Suwen 46
2
The signs 身熱解墯，汗出如浴
熱而懈惰，汗多如浴
有病身熱解墯，汗出如浴 — Suwen 46
3
The lassitude 解墯
讀 jiě duò，字通懈惰
有病身熱解墯 — Suwen 46
4
Why there is so much sweat 汗出如浴
酒性慓悍，腠理開而汗泄
汗出如浴 — Suwen 46
5
Aversion to wind and scant breath 惡風少氣
惡讀 wù，少讀 shǎo
惡風少氣 — Suwen 46
6
The prescription 澤瀉、術、麋銜
術讀 zhú，卽白朮；三指撮為後飯
以澤瀉、術各十分 — Suwen 46

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

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Suwen 46 Suwen 46 · 病能論 Read in context →
帝曰：善。有病身熱解墯，汗出如浴，惡風少氣。此爲何病？歧伯曰：病名曰酒風。 帝曰：善。有病身热解惰，汗出如浴，恶风少气。此为何病？歧伯曰：病名曰酒风。
Dì yuē: shàn. Yǒu bìng shēn rè jiě duò, hàn chū rú yù, wù fēng shǎo qì. Cǐ wéi hé bìng? Qí bó yuē: bìng míng yuē jiǔ fēng.
The Emperor says: good. Here is one with heat in the body, lax and listless, sweating as though from a bath, averse to wind and short of breath. What disease is this? Qi Bo says: the disease is named wind from wine.
**「有病身熱解墯，汗出如浴，惡風少氣」——**「酒」讀 jiǔ、**本篇惟此一見**；「墯」讀 duò、**「惰」之異體，讀 duò**；「惡」讀 wù、**畏惡之惡，讀 wù**；**「少氣」之少讀 shǎo，與本篇「少陰」「少陽」讀 shào 者異，同篇二讀**。

Compounds built on this term

酒風
jiǔ fēng
wind from wine
本篇末第二問所名之病
身熱解墯
shēn rè jiě duò
heat in the body with laxness
酒風之形
惡風少氣
wù fēng shǎo qì
aversion to wind and scant qi
酒風之候
三指撮
sān zhǐ cuō
a three-finger pinch
取藥之量，撮讀 cuō

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

This sitewind from wine酒風 rendered so that the sequence shows — wine first, wind after
Unschuldwind [caused by] winehe keeps the causal reading
Wisemanalcohol wind酒風 in his system

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