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Educational reference · 五行 wǔxíng
Name the pattern.
Trace the source.
Chinese medicine, by pattern and by season — every claim traceable to a classical text. Each page gives you the chapter, the Chinese original, and the person who checked the reading.
Educational content only. This site does not diagnose or treat. If a symptom is new, severe, or getting worse, see a licensed clinician first.
8Patterns documented
5Elements mapped
12Classical texts cited
0Anonymous pages
Why this site exists
Written to be checked,
not to be believed
Every claim carries its own receipt.
Most Chinese medicine content online asks for your trust and gives you nothing to verify. This one is built the other way round: a name, a chapter, a date — on every page.
Cited to the chapter
Quotations name the book and the chapter, and give the Chinese original beside our own translation — so you can check the reading rather than trust it.
Four names for one thing
WHO standard term, pinyin, characters, and the older aliases — because "liver qi stagnation" and "肝气郁结" are the same pattern and search engines don't know that.
Where to go
Four ways in
Start from the pattern, the symptom, the season, or the system.
证型 8 Patterns The unit Chinese medicine actually diagnoses — named, and ruled out, sign by sign. Enter → 
症状 12 Conditions Enter from the thing that bothers you, and see which patterns it usually belongs to. Enter → 
节气 5 Seasons Spring for the liver, winter for the kidneys — and what the classics say to eat. Enter → 
五行 5 Five Elements Why liver is wood and heart is fire, and how the cycles are used in practice. Enter → The self-check
Not sure which pattern fits?
Twelve questions, about four minutes. It doesn't diagnose anything — it weighs the signs you report against eight patterns and shows you what fits and what doesn't.
- Where it sits, and what makes it worse
- Temperature, thirst, digestion, sleep
- Tongue and pulse, if you know them
No account, and nothing kept on a server. Your answers are encoded in the link, so the results page is shareable without a login. Leaving an address for the printable report is optional — the tool works either way.
The reference
The eight patterns
木
Liver qi stagnation pattern
肝郁气滞证 gān yù qì zhì
Emotional constraint that shows up in the body as distension, sighing, and a mood that tracks stress.
15 signs
土
Spleen qi deficiency pattern
脾气虚证 pí qì xū
Low digestive power — tiredness that arrives right after eating.
14 signs
水
Kidney yin deficiency pattern
肾阴虚证 shèn yīn xū
A cooling system running low — heat at night, a sore lower back, and dryness.
14 signs
土
Dampness pattern
湿证 shī zhèng
Heaviness and sluggishness — the felt sense of being waterlogged.
13 signs
土
Damp-heat pattern
湿热证 shī rè
Dampness plus heat — heaviness that also burns, smells, or itches.
13 signs
土
Phlegm pattern
痰证 tán zhèng
Accumulated fluid that shows up as mucus, chest tightness, and foggy thinking.
13 signs
木
Blood deficiency pattern
血虚证 xuè xū
Not enough blood to go around — pallor, palpitations, and a dull, dry quality.
13 signs
土
Qi deficiency pattern
气虚证 qì xū
Not enough driving force — everything takes more effort than it should.
13 signs
All nine pages are written up — eight core patterns, plus one overview of the yin-deficiency family.
What a citation looks like
百病生于气也。怒则气上，喜则气缓，悲则气消，恐则气下…… bǎi bìng shēng yú qì yě
A hundred illnesses arise from qi. Anger sends it upward, joy slackens it, grief disperses it, fear drives it down…
We translate the classics ourselves and cite the chapter. We do not reproduce existing English translations — they are someone else's reading, and often a machine's.