Fright Palpitations / Jing Ji
Updated 2026-08-02
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Jing ji is a classical pattern in traditional Chinese medicine describing palpitations and an unsettled heartbeat brought on by fright. Its defining feature is external origin: the patient can name the frightening event, whether a sudden noise, an animal, or a shock. It is classically attributed to weakened gallbladder qi or to injury from the frightening experience itself. The condition is distinguished from zheng chong, in which the heartbeat races without any external trigger and which is considered the deeper and more serious pattern. Treatment focuses on calming the spirit and restoring the damaged psychological boundary.
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- External source check: Trace a disturbance back to the triggering event before treating the symptom. - Boundary repair: Read post-shock symptoms as a damaged protective boundary that needs rebuilding. - Paired diagnosis: Compare a triggered disturbance with a spontaneous one to judge which is the deeper problem.
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A sudden external shock overwhelms the protective boundary that normally filters stimuli, and the unsettled state persists after the event has passed because the boundary has not been restored. That is why the pattern is defined by its external trigger: identifying the trigger tells the clinician which layer was damaged. Because the same symptom can arise from internal depletion instead, the presence or absence of a nameable cause is what separates this pattern from the more serious spontaneous one.
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