assorted female medical disorders; women's ailments
Traditional term for a range of gynecological or menstrual-related disorders, used in pre-modern Japanese medicine. Not a modern clinical term.
blood vessels
Rare, literal meaning referring to blood vessels. In modern Japanese, 血管 (けっかん) is the standard term.
The term 'chi no michi' appears frequently in Edo-period medical texts.
Taken literally, 'chi no michi' can refer to blood vessels, but it is hardly used in modern Japanese.
Compound of 血 (chi, 'blood') + の (no, possessive particle) + 道 (michi, 'path, way'). Literally 'path of blood', referring to blood vessels or, by extension, disorders related to blood flow in women.