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MENTAL MODEL · M2623

Acute Fright Wind / Ji Jing Feng

Acute Fright Wind / Ji Jing Feng
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Updated 2026-08-02

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

Acute fright wind (Ji Jing Feng) is a pediatric pattern in traditional Chinese medicine characterized by the sudden onset of high fever, convulsions, and loss of consciousness. It is classified as excess heat with internal wind, arising when an exterior wind-heat attack or food stagnation transforms into heat, and heat pushed to its extreme generates wind. It is linked to the pediatric principle that the liver is often in surplus. Treatment clears heat, cools the liver, and extinguishes wind, while the acute presentation also requires emergency medical care.

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- Pressure-cooker read: treat a violent, sudden onset as heat that has built past its release threshold. - Urgency split: separate the immediate need to extinguish wind from the later clearing of residual heat. - Safety frame: flag convulsions as a medical emergency before doing any pattern reasoning.

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In Chinese-medicine physiology, wind signs such as tremor and convulsion arise when heat or deficiency destabilizes the liver. In a child whose liver qi is already relatively abundant, a rapid febrile illness pushes the system past the threshold at which movement becomes uncontrolled, producing spasm. The violence and speed of onset are the signature: the sharper the buildup, the more abrupt the release.

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