Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Sickness (bìng) Li Kangxi stroke count: 12 Page 774, Entry 09 According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun) and the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced li (falling tone). It refers to diarrhea. According to the Correct Meaning Thoroughfare (Zhengzitong), medical texts divide this into blood dysentery, qi dysentery, red dysentery, white dysentery, diarrhea, alcohol-induced dysentery, deficiency dysentery, five-colored dysentery, water-and-grain dysentery, red-and-white dysentery, lock-jaw dysentery, intermittent dysentery, fatigue dysentery, sudden dysentery, and chronic dysentery. These conditions are all caused by the accumulation of damp-heat, summer toxins, or bodily deficiency leading to collapse.