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MENTAL MODEL · M2653

Fat Qi / Fei Qi

Fat Qi / Fei Qi
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Updated 2026-08-02

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

Fat qi is one of the five accumulations in traditional Chinese medicine and is classified as the accumulation of the liver. It presents as a fixed, palpable mass below the left flank, described in the classical literature as shaped like an inverted cup with a head and a foot. It corresponds to what is now recognized as hepatosplenomegaly, including the enlarged spleen that follows chronic malaria. The pattern is defined by long-standing stasis at the blood level rather than by moving qi stagnation, and the old term for fat carried the sense of thick and solid.

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- Fortified mass: prolonged stasis in the liver channel has hardened into a physical structure. - Texture test: separate a fixed, hard accumulation from a mobile qi blockage. - Treatment direction: break up stasis and soften hardness rather than simply moving qi.

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Chronic stagnation at the blood level allows phlegm and blood to bind together over time, so a movable functional disturbance gradually solidifies into a fixed mass. Because the substrate is blood rather than qi, agents that only move qi cannot reach it, which is why treatment must address the blood level.

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