Wind inversion · feng jue

At a glance

Pinyin

fēng jué

Simplified

风厥

Literal

風 fēng, wind — here the pattern of sweating with the body still hot; 厥 jué, inversion — the qi counterflowing upward instead of staying in its place. Two things that look like one disease are named apart: the sweating with heat is wind, and the fretting fullness that the sweat does not relieve is inversion. The disease is the two together, and it is treatable — which is exactly why it stands next to yin-yang crossing, which is not.

Shuowen

《說文解字》：厥，發石也，从厂从欮——借為氣逆之名。「風」讀 fēng，本篇八見；**「厥」讀 jué，本篇三見**（風厥、從之則厥也、厥也）。「病」讀 bìng；「名」讀 míng；「曰」讀 yuē；「汗」讀 hàn；「出」讀 chū；「而」讀 ér；「身」讀 shēn；「熱」讀 rè；「煩」讀 fán；「滿」讀 mǎn；「不」讀 bù；「解」讀 jiě；「也」讀 yě。**本篇第二證，與第一證對舉而成文**：陰陽交者汗出而熱復、脉躁、狂言、不能食——死；風厥者汗出而身熱、煩滿不解——可治而愈。**同是「汗出而熱」，一曰「復熱」一曰「身熱」，一曰「脉躁疾」一曰「煩滿」，其別在邪之淺深與正之存亡**。下文「巨陽主氣，故先受邪，少陰與其爲表裏也，得熱則上從之」，是以表裡二經釋「厥」之由來：表受邪而裡氣上從，是為厥。