Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Sickness (bìng) 癇 Kangxi strokes: 17 Page 780, Entry 38 Pronounced xian. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters): Sickness. Yupian (Jade Chapters): Infantile convulsions or epilepsy. Zhengzitong (True Meaning Thoroughly Clarified): Epilepsy involves wind-heat and frightening evil influences, all coupled with deficiency and phlegm. Medical texts state that there are five types of infantile epilepsy, each corresponding to one of the five viscera. Heart epilepsy has a sound like a sheep. Liver epilepsy has a sound like a dog. Spleen epilepsy has a sound like a cow. Lung epilepsy has a sound like a chicken. Kidney epilepsy has a sound like a pig. When an attack occurs, the patient suddenly falls, eyes and mouth pull to one side, hands and feet twitch, and saliva froths from the mouth, returning to consciousness after the duration of a meal. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Wang Fu: If breastfeeding is excessive, it causes epileptic illness.