The Health Palace carries in Chinese an older, more direct name, Ji E Gong, which reads literally as the Sickness and Affliction Palace, a term modern English language practice has generally softened to Health while keeping the same underlying concern with the body's vulnerabilities and its capacity to recover from them, a naming shift the tradition's own English language literature does not always flag explicitly, so a reader encountering both terms in different sources is looking at the same palace under two registers of translation rather than two different palaces. Its reading covers the native's general physical constitution, susceptibility to particular kinds of illness or injury, and capacity for recovery, with individual major stars read for the specific character of that vulnerability, Tian Liang's presence favouring resilience and recovery per its own beam like, protective character, while a star such as Lian Zhen, with its volatile double nature, is read as suggesting health concerns tied to stress or overextension rather than to any single fixed weakness.
The tradition is explicit that this palace reads tendency and constitution rather than diagnosis, a distinction practitioners are generally careful to maintain given the real consequences of treating an astrological reading as medical guidance, a caution the older, blunter name Sickness and Affliction makes if anything more pressing to state plainly.