Glossary

Seven disease causing factors:

1. Excessive eating causing injury to the Spleen
2. Excessive anger causing injury to the Liver
3. Excessive labour and lifting, or sitting in damp ground causing injury to the Kidneys
4. Retention of cold fluid causing injury to the Lung
5. Anxiety and worry causing injury to the Heart
6. Wind, damp, cold and summer-heat injuring the Blood
7. Great fear and dread causing injury to the emotions

The Jin Gui Yao Lue, ch. 1, pairs them with the Five Taxations and Six Extremes (五勞, 七傷, 六極, Wu Lao, Qi Shang, Liu Ji) to make 18 causes of disease that, along with 36 "women's disorders (婦人三十六病)" are not directly attributed the Zangfu.