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Internal wind
内风 〔內風〕 nèi fēng
1. An ancient term denoting a disease arising in sexual taxation with sweating when wind evil invades.
2. Liver wind. In the early phase of Chinese medicine, all wind was believed to be of external origin. However, subsequent theories posited that certain signs such as dizziness, tremor, and convulsions previously attributed to the invasion of external wind were due to a wind
arising internally due to a yīn-yáng imbalance. See liver wind stirring internally. internal evil.