les sept atteintes

13:20 Oct 11, 2017
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical (general) / Traditional Chinese medicine
French term or phrase: les sept atteintes
In an old document on the therapeutic virtues of cannabis:
Les sommités florales du cannabis, de saveur acre, sont indiqués contre les cinq fatigues et ***les sept atteintes***.
(For subtitles.)
Victoria Britten
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4seven types of injuries
Drmanu49
2 +1the seven injuries
Sheri P
3the seven (harmful) emotions
B D Finch


  

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the seven injuries


Explanation:
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine

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Also found "the seven damages"
https://books.google.com/books?id=NjC-eTffFeQC&pg=PR16&lpg=P...

Sheri P
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seven types of injuries


Explanation:
Marijuana Medicine: A World Tour of the Healing and Visionary Powers ...
https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=0892819332 - Traduire cette page
Christian Rätsch - 2001 - ‎Family & Relationships
A World Tour of the Healing and Visionary Powers of Cannabis Christian Rätsch ... about its effects: This hemp heals five ailments and seven types of injuries.


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the seven (harmful) emotions


Explanation:
In fact, though Wikipedia calls these "injuries", this does not seem like a good translation and they seem to generally be referred to as the "seven emotions". If you want to ensure that you include the idea of "atteintes", then you could insert the word "harmful".

www.calvindale.com/disease.html
In fact, the seven potential "internal causes" of disease in Chinese Medicine are all "emotions"." ... In adults, fear tends to cause Kidney-Yin deficiency. ... Stomach and Spleen, causing indigestion and other problems: this is the pattern of Liver ...

www.elisabeth-rochat.com/docs/24_zhi_will.pdf
In Chinese medicine, the will (zhi 志) is first perceived as one of the five spiritual ... the spirits (shen) linked to the heart, the Hun linked to the liver, the Po liked to the lung, the intent (yi) linked to the spleen and the will (zhi) linked to the kidneys. .... Where does the difference lie between the seven emotions and the five wills, ...

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