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The four movements of Qi qì jī shēng jiàng chū rù · 气机升降出入

Qi is described as having four directions of movement: rising, descending, exiting and entering. Health is said to depend on these four keeping their proper direction; illness is described as them going the wrong way.

This is the origin of phrases like "stomach Qi rebelling upward" for nausea, or "sinking Qi" for prolapse. It is a directional vocabulary, and much of TCM symptom language depends on it.

气被描述为有四个运动方向:升、降、出、入。传统认为健康取决于四者方向各得其常,而疾病则被描述为方向失常。

这正是"胃气上逆"(形容恶心)、"中气下陷"(形容下垂)这类说法的来源。它是一套方向性的词汇,中医症状语言很大一部分依赖于此。

Classical theory · Huangdi Neijing

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