WHO InternatIOnal Standard termInOlOgIeS On tradItIOnal medIcIne

42Basic Theories - Cause of DiseaseCode Term Chinese Definition/Description1.6.36 turbid pathogen 濁 邪1.6.37 foul turbidity 穢 濁pathogenic dampness-turbidity or phlegm-turbidity,usually impeding the movement of yang qiputrid and filthy qi that causes disease, includingmiasma1.6.38 summerheat qi 暑 氣 summerheat as a pathogenic factor1.6.39 summerheat-heat 暑 熱summerheat as a pathogen that gives rise to diseasecharacterized by heat symptoms1.6.40summerheatdampness暑 濕a combined pathogen of summerheat and dampness1.6.41 dryness qi 燥 氣 dryness as a pathogenic factor1.6.42 dryness-heat 燥 熱 a combined pathogen of dryness and heat1.6.43 cool dryness 凉 燥1.6.44 warm dryness 溫 燥1.6.45 warm pathogen 溫 邪1.6.46 pestilence 疫 癘1.6.47 latent qi 伏 氣 ; 伏 邪the pathogenic factor that causes cool drynesspattern/syndromethe pathogenic factor that causes warm drynesspattern/syndromea collective term for various pathogens causing acutefebrile diseasesa collective term for various highly infectious epidemicdiseasesthe pathogen that induces the onset of disease after alatent period, also called incubative pathogen1.6.48 epidemic pathogen時 行 戾 氣 ;癘 氣 ; 疫 毒pathogen that cause an epidemic infectious diseases,also called pestilential qi1.6.49 toxin 毒1.6.50 heat toxin 熱 毒1.6.51 fire toxin 火 毒any virulent pathogen that causes a fulminatingdiseasea virulent pathogen arising from accumulatedpathogenic heat(1) pathogenic agent formed in the course ofsmoldering of pathogenic fire; (2) burns or scaldscomplicated with infection