Heat Leaks Qi / Jiong Ze Qi Xie
Updated 2026-08-04
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
From the Suwen of the Huangdi Neijing: when heat opens the interstices, nutritive and defensive qi flow freely, sweat pours out, and so qi leaks away. Heat relaxes the body surface and drives sweating, and qi escapes along with the sweat. The claim is physiological and pathological at once: summer heat exhausts people, and heavy sweating in febrile illness depletes upright qi rather than merely losing water. Treatment must therefore clear heat while protecting qi.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Leak model: treat the pores as pressure valves that heat forces open, letting qi escape. - Summer fatigue: explain why heat and heavy sweating produce lassitude and weakness. - Treatment check: add qi-tonifying and sweat-arresting measures whenever you clear heat.
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Heat expands the body surface and opens the interstices, so sweat carries qi outward with it. Because qi is the functional energy behind every process, mass sweat loss means mass energy loss, and the chain runs heat to open pores to profuse sweat to depleted qi to fatigue.
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