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1. To become tight, hard, or stiff.

2. To cohere or make cohere.

3. To constipate. Bind denotes a concentration of evils in a specific location, that causes hardness. When phlegm and qì bind, phlegm nodes form. When heat binds in the intestines, the stool becomes dry, solid, and difficult to evacuate. For example, large intestine heat can cause heat bind, which is characterized by hard bound stool (i.e., constipation). When damp-heat gathers and binds in the lower burner, urinary stones form. In the term binding depression of qì dynamic, it refers to frustrated movement of qì that can cause accumulation of phlegm or static blood. See stoppage.

Etymology

Chinese: 结 jié, to knot, freeze, congeal, form, bear fruit.

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