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The six influences liù yín · 六淫

Wind, Cold, Summer-heat, Damp, Dryness and Fire are six descriptions of how external conditions are said to interact with the body. Wind is the most abstract: it describes signs that move around or come on suddenly.

Read them as descriptions of patterns, not as weather-based causes in a modern sense. Damp, for instance, describes heaviness and sluggishness — a set of features, not humidity itself.

风、寒、暑、湿、燥、火是六种描述外界条件如何与身体相互作用的说法。其中"风"最抽象,用于描述游走不定或突然出现的一类征象。

应把它们读作证候的描述语言,而不是现代意义上的气象致病原因。例如"湿",描述的是沉重、黏滞的一组特征,而不是湿度本身。

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