Skipping Transmission
Updated 2026-08-01
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
In the six-channel framework of traditional Chinese medicine, disease normally advances from one stage to the next in sequence. Skipping transmission describes the influence leaping across one or more stages instead, for example passing from the taiyang stage directly to shaoyang while bypassing yangming. The leap suggests either that the invading factor is unusually aggressive or that an intermediate stage was too weak to hold it. The practical consequence is that diagnosis cannot rely on the expected sequence alone, and the concept is also invoked where a reading depends on sources outside the orthodox line of transmission.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Order Check: do not assume a process must pass through every intermediate stage - Weak Link Search: ask which stage was too weak to hold the line - State over Sequence: read the current position directly rather than inferring it
Anchor fast decisions
Sequential models are useful defaults, not laws. A leap happens either because the moving force is strong enough to bypass a stage or because that stage offers no resistance. Since the skipped step leaves no trace, sequence-based inference silently misreads the situation, and only direct observation of the present state reveals where things actually stand. The same logic governs infections, supply chains and market contagion, where a missing buffer converts an ordinary path into a shortcut.
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