Signs indicating winds

The winds can be inferred from the pain that occurs in the sensitive organs - this is a consequence of the disruption of continuity caused by the winds, as well as from the movements occurring in the organs. One can also infer about the winds by sounds, and they can also infer them by feeling.

As for pain, nagging pain indicates winds, especially if there is a feeling of lightness. If, in addition, there is a displacement of pain, then the proof is complete. All this happens when a disruption of continuity occurs in sensitive organs. As for, for example, bones and glandular meat, this cannot be determined in them by pain. There are winds in the bones that break them into pieces or finely crush them, but there is no pain from this, or, if there is any, it is only from the sensation of a fracture in a neighboring organ.

As for the conclusion about the winds from the movements of the organs, it is similar to the conclusion about the twitching winds that are formed and move, tending to rise up and dissipate.

As for the conclusion about the winds from sounds, the sounds come either from the winds themselves - such as rumbling in the stomach and the like, as well as the sounds that are heard in the spleen when pressed, if it hurts from the winds - or the winds produce sound when they hit the walls organ Thus, by tapping, “skin” and “drum” dropsy are distinguished.

As for the conclusion about winds by palpation, then by palpation one can distinguish, for example, swelling from a cone, since here there is stretching followed by compression in the absence of flowing, fluctuating moisture or viscous juice. The sense of touch distinguishes this, and the difference between swelling and wind is not in the substance, but in the presence of movement, stillness and excitement.