Zang Fu Organ Networks

ZenShiatsu Chicago
Miriam Tamara Derman, RN, LAc
Hamsa97@aol.com
847 323 2002
 Internal organs govern
All the Vital substances including
• Blood
• Essence
• Body fluids
• Qi
 Each organ has a related
tissue that it governs
• Liver-sinews
• Lungs-skin
• Kidneys-bones
• Spleen-muscles
• Heart-blood vessels
 Each organ has a sense
organ its related to
• Spleen-mouth and taste
• Liver-eyes and sight
• Lungs-nose and smell
• Kidneys-ears and hearing
• Heart-tongue and taste
 Emotions
• Heart- joy
• Lungs- sadness/grief
• Kidney- fear
• Liver- anger/frustration
• Spleen- pensiveness/worry/rumination
 Spiritual aspects of organs
• Hun-Ethereal Soul- Liver
• Shen-Mind- Heart
• Yi-Intellect -Spleen
• Po-Corporeal Soul-Lungs
• Zhi-Will Power-Kidneys
 Climates related to organs
• Liver- wind
• Heart- heat
• Spleen- dampness
• Lungs- dryness
• Kidneys- cold
External Manifestations of the
Organs
• Heart- complexion
• Liver- nails
• Lungs- body hair
• Spleen- lips
• Kidneys- hair
 Fluids,odors,tastes,colors,
sounds
• Review
• Liver- rancid, sour, green, shouting
• Heart- scorched, bitter, red, laughing
• Spleen- fragrant, sweet, yellow, singing
• Lungs- rotten, pungent, white, crying
• Kidneys- putrid, salty, blue black,
groaning
 Yin/Zang Organs
• Solid
• Heart
• Lungs
• Liver
• Spleen
• Kidney
• Pericardium
 Yin organs
• Store vital substances: qi, blood
Essence and Body Fluids
• Store pure refined substances they
receive from Yang organs after
transformation from food
• Do not discharge, are full yet cannot be
filled
 Yang/Fu Organs
• Stomach
• Small Intestine
• Triple Burner
• Large Intestine
• Gall Bladder
• Bladder
 Fu Organs
• Don’t store anything
• Fill and empty in cycles
• Filled yet not full
• Transform nutritive substances to pure
essence for the yin organs to store
• Excrete waste products
• Function is to receive, move, transform
digest and excrete
 Interior/Exterior pairs
• Each yin organ considered to be more
interior
• Each yang organ considered to be more
exterior
• Each yin and yang pair has
interior/exterior relationship
Heart, Liver, Lungs, Spleen
This class we will discuss four yin/zang
organs Heart, Liver, Lungs and Spleen
Including the kidney there are 5 zang
organs
 Heart
• Most important of all the internal organs
• Ruler or Emperor or Monarch
• Heart governs the Shen (the mind) and
the 5 yin organs and the 6 fu organs
 Main functions of the heart
• Governs blood by transforming food qi
into blood in the heart
• Governs blood vessels by circulating
the blood
• Cold hands, lack of circulation, weak
constitution
• Warm hands, good circulation, strong
and vigorous constitution
 Heart blood and menses
• Heart blood controls the downward
movement of qi and blood that makes
menstruation occur
• The liver blood is responsible for filling
the uterus with blood during
menstruation
• The heart blood makes the discharge of
that blood occur
 Heart pulse
• Choppy-deficient blood
• Hard -blood stasis/atherosclerosis
• Feeble and irregular
• Full and smooth
 Heart manifests in facial
complexion
• Dull- pale- heart blood deficiency
• Bright- white- heart yang deficiency
• Purplish or dark- heart blood stasis
• Red- heart heat
 Houses the mind
• Shen-a few different meanings
• Shen is the mental faculty that resides in the
heart
• Shen is the sphere of mental and spiritual
aspects of all other organs especially the hun
liver, po lungs, yi spleen, zhi kidney and the
shen itself
• So in a narrow sense is Mind:related to heart
• In a broad sense is Spirit: pertaining to all yin
organs
 Five heart-mind functions
• Mental activity including emotions
• Consciousness
• Memory
• Thinking
• Sleep
• Heart blood roots the mind if blood is full
mind is peaceful and happy
 Heart
• Determines a persons capacity to have
meaningful relationships
• Positivity is a direct influence of heart
and mind
• Conversely bad relationships can
weaken heart and mind
 Heart related to joy
• Influenced by joy
• How is joy a cause of disease?
• Sudden joy, precipitates migraine
• Sudden gales of laughter precipitate a
heart attack
• Joy makes the heart larger in over
stimulation
• Excessive joy injures the heart
 Heart opens into tongue
• Tongue is considered the sprout of the heart
• Tongue color form and appearance controlled
by the heart
• Controls sense of taste
• With heat can have tongue ulcers, tongue
red, bitter taste
• Tongue pale and thin may be weak heart and
deficient blood
• Heart influences speech,talking or laughing
 Heart controls sweat
• Deficiency of heart yang or heart qi causes
spontaneous sweating
• A deficiency of heart yin causes night
sweating
• Loss of sweat=loss of body fluids=blood
deficiency
• Excess sweating related to heart especially
when it is associated with emotional tension
 Heart and Dreams
Heart is the residence of the Shen
Shen is anchored when there is
sufficient heart blood,
If there is a deficiency of heart blood,
the shen will float and not be anchored
in sleep
See disturbed sleep, uneasy sleep and
excessive dreaming.
 Heart
• Smell-scorched
• Color-red
• Taste-bitter
• Climate-heat
• Sound-laughing
 Heart and Small intestine
• Interior-exterior relationship
• Heart-nets to the small intestine
• Enclosed by the pericardium
• Close relationship with spleen as well
• Spleen sends food and grain qi to heart
to make blood
 Liver
Stores blood
Makes qi flow smoothly
Controls sinews
Manifests in the nails
Opens into the eyes
Houses the ethereal soul (hun)
Affected by anger and frustration
 Liver stores blood
• Regulates the volume of blood in the
body
• If active, blood flows to muscles and
sinews
• At rest flows back to liver
• during sleep time the blood rests in the
liver
 Liver and Energy
• Liver directs blood so muscles and body
are nourished during activity
• If this function is sluggish, liver may not
supply body properly and person may
have low energy
 Liver and menses
• Liver deficient, scanty periods
• Liver excess or hot, excess heavy
bleeding
• Liver qi stagnation, periods painful,
PMS and dark clots in menstrual blood
• Liver 3 good point for regulating liver
 Liver as moistener
• Liver blood moistens they eyes
• If deficient, dry eyes, blurry vision
• If Liver is hot, red eyes
• Liver moistens sinews so needed for
moistening of joints
• If liver is affected by wind, see tremors
• If Liver fx is improper, can give rise to
skin diseases due to blood toxicity
 Liver qi
• Liver ensures smooth flow of qi inward,
outward, upward and downward
• Therefore affects digestion
• And bile flow. If liver qi is stagnang bile
may be obstructed resulting in bitter
taste, belching, jaundice and inability to
digest fats
 Liver controls sinews
• Functionally all movement
• Neurologically, if liver wind, can have
tremors and convulsions
• Weakness of muscles is due to spleen
• Difficulty in movement, contractions,
flexion, extension, cramps, are related
to Liver
 Liver and Eyes
• Liver moistens eyes, nourishes eyes
• All other organs relate to eyes as well
• Internal wind, causes nystagmus
• State of Shen relflected in the eyes
• Tears that moisten eyes continually are
related to liver
 The Ethereal Soul (Hun)
• Capacity to plan our lives
• Sense of direction in life
• Mental confusion can be due to the hun
wandering
• Lack of blood, lack of rootedness
• Source of life dreams, projects, ideas,
aims, creativity, inspiration
• Active at night, fear at night due to hun
 Hun and Po
• Hun-Yang, subtle and non-material
energy
• Po-Yin goes back to earth, physical
aspect of soul linked to the physical
body
• Ling, or Soul in Chinese, have both Hun
and Po together as polar aspects of the
concept of Soul
 Liver left side
• Although its on the right anatomically
• Liver headache due to blood def. on left
side of head
• Left side of the tongue is related to Liver
• Left pulse related to Liver
 Lungs
• Govern qi and respiration
• Control channels and blood vessels
• Control diffusing and descending of qi and
body fluids
• Regulate all physiologic activities
• Regulate water passages
• Control skin and space between skin and
muscles
• Manifest in body hair, open into nose,
• Control mucus
• House the corporeal soul or po
• Affected by worry, grief and sadness
 Lungs and Qi
• Diffuse and descend fluid and qi to the
space between skin and muscles
• If lung qi is weak, person gets sick
easily, defensive qi is weak
• Misting function of the upper burner is
domain of Lung
• Lungs called the magnificent lid
• Direct fluids down to kidney and bladder
 Lungs
• Prime ministers assisting the Emperor
• Zong qi-qi of the chest
• In charge of regulation of physiological
activities of the body
• Lungs rule over the 100 vessels, control
all channels and blood vessels by
controlling the qi entering and exiting
them
 Lungs
• Regulate water passages and the space
between skin and muscles-Cou Li
• Defensive qi is in the Cou Li
• Lungs open to the nose-if normal breathing is
easy and sense of smell will be normal
• Control mucus that moistens passages
• Mucus can become pathogenic
 Corporeal Soul
• Yin
• Formed at conception
• Dies with the body
• Related to Essence
• Manifestation of Essence in the body
• Interface between Essence and physiological
processes of body
• Breathing is a function of the Po
 Worry and grief
• Can knot the qi of the lung
• Cause breathing problems
• And shoulder and chest tension
• Hunched position and breast lumps
 Spleen
• Governs transformation and transportation
• Controls the ascending of clear qi
• Controls blood
• Controls muscles and limbs
• Opens into mouth
• Manifests in the lips
• Controls saliva
• Houses the intellect (YI)
• Affected by rumination and pensiveness
 Spleen makes Food Qi
• Food qi is the basis for the production of
qi and blood
• Controls transformation, separation, and
movement of fluids
• Makes the clear go up to the lungs and
the turbid to the intestines
• Ascending function includes all
movements related to digestive function
 Spleen controls blood
• Holds blood in the vessels
• If it doesn’t that is impairment of
ascending of spleen function
• Hemorrhage or bleeding from uterus,
bladder or intestines
• Kidney is more important in making
menstrual blood than spleen
 State of Spleen and Energy
• If spleen weak tiredness is common
• Weak limbs common
• Muscular atrophy possible
• When spleen qi is normal, taste is normal,
appetite is normal, lips reflect state of spleen
• If dry, yin is deficient
• if heat, lips are red and dry
• If pale, blood is deficient
 Houses the intellect
• Influences thinking, studying,
memorizing, focusing, concentrating
and generating ideas
• Yi and Shen overlap
• Spleen influences ability to think
• Heart influences clarity
• Kidneys nourish brain for memory
 Pensiveness
• Knots the spleen
• Worry knots qi
• Worry knots qi in the upper burner
• Pensiveness knots qi in the middle
burner
• And causes poor digestion and
distention
 Class two
• Quiz
 Kidneys
• Store essence
• Governs birth, growth, reproduction and
development
• Produces marrow
• Controls water, the reception of qi
• Opens into ears, manifests in the hair
• Controls spittle
• Controls the two lower orifices
• House will power (zhi)
• Controls ministerial fire
 Kidney
• Root of Life
• Root of pre-heaven qi because they
store the essence
• Because they store the essence, they
are the foundation of all the yin and
yang in the body
 Kidney yin and Kidney yang
• Most important yin and yang in the body
• All yang from kidney is foundation for yang of
all the other organs
• All yin from the kidney is foundation for the
yin of all the other organs
• Kidney yin fundamental to birth, growth
• And development and reproduction
• Kidney yang is force behind all physiological
processes
 Kidney yin and yang
• Because of their relationship to one
another, they form the same root and
rely on one another.
• If there is a deficiency of Kd yin then
there will be a def of Kd yang as well.
• Also origin of Water and Fire
• Kd is water element, but also houses
Ministerial fire, ming men
 Kidney
• Governs sexual maturation
• Influences conception
• Supports pregnancy
• Declines in menopause
• Determines aging
 Jing or Essence
• Store inherited genetic material from parents
• This Essence determines our strength and
vitality
• Essence is the basis for sperm and ova
• Basis for Tian Gui, from which the menstrual
blood and the sperm are derived
 Kidneys
• Also store post heaven essence we get
from food
• Essence circulates thru the whole body
and particularly in the 8 Extra Vessels
• Also influences Marrow
• Marrow is bones, bone marrow, brain
and spinal cord
• Nourishes brain so effects memory
 Kidney, Ears and Hair
• If kidney is healthy, hearing will be fine
• If kidney is weak there may be hearing
impairment
• If kidney is healthy, hair is glossy and
grows
• If kidney is weak, hair is brittle, dull, thin,
and may be prematurely gray
 spittle
• Not saliva which is related to spleen
• Excessive spitting detrimental to
Essence
• Daoist exercise, roll tongue around
gums, gulp down spittle produced and
direct it to the dan tien, lower abdomen
to nourish kidney essence
• Thick fluid in the back of the throat
 Kidney
• Controls urination
• Helps intestine separate and transform
fluids
• Gets fluid from lungs and sends fluid
back up to lungs
• Provides fire to spleen to help with t and
t of fluids
 Controls the two orifices

• Urethra and anus

• Includes spermatic duct in males
• Sperm is a manifestation of the essence
• If kidney qi is weak there may be
diarrhea or prolapse of the anus
• If kid qi is weak get leakage,
spermatorrhea, diarrhea or urinary
incontinence
 Zhi
• Strong kd, strong will , mind focused
• Bl 52, Bl 23 can strengthen will power
• Control tenacity and determination
 Kidney and Gate of Life
• Called the Gate of life
• Functions of the Gate of Life
• Is root of Original Qi (Yuan Qi)
• Source of physiological fire for all the organs
• Warms lower burner and bladder to excrete
fluids
• Warms the st/sp to aid digestion
• Harmonizes sexual functions which depend
on the fire of the gate of life
Kidney and Gate of Life, cont.
• Helps heart to house the mind
• KD has to communicate with the HT, to
warm it for its function, even of housing
the shen. If KD doesn’t do this, person
can be unhappy and depressed
• If too much fire it can heat the PC and
HT too much and cause agitation
 Kidney
• Putrid smell is stagnation of water, Kd energy
frequently smelled in the elderly
• Black is the color, or blue black or grey, can
be seen in cheeks or under eyes
• Salty taste: some salt tonifying, too much is
damaging to Kd and heart, Kd has to balance
sodium
• Cold climate injures kidney yang
• Groaning, deep raspy hoarse sound
• Weak KD causes dreams of being in water
and afraid
 Pericardium
• Functions are the same as the heart
• on a physical level the pericardium
influences the center of the chest
• Pericardium patterns are characterized
by clinical manifestations causing
tightness, stuffiness, distension,
oppression or pain of the chest
 Pericardium as an organ
• Wraps the heart
• Protects the heart
• Governs blood and houses the mind
• Points on PC channel can invigorate
blood or cool blood
 Pericardium as a channel
Influences Zong qi
Related to triple burner
 Pericardium function on
mental emotional level
• Pericardium is responsible for movement
toward others
• In social relationships, love and family
relationships
• Pericardium houses the mind as does the HT
• Blood deficiency or heat of the PC will cause
anxiety and depression, or agitation
• Phlegm obstruction causes confusion and
mental illness
• PC affects emotions from relationships
 PC and ministerial fire
• Minister fire arises from the kidneys
• Flares upwards to liver, GB and PC and
flows down to kidneys
• Pathological fire flare upwards and
harasses the PC
 PC and Uterus
• Pathology of the PC could affect menstruation
• Deficiency of blood can cause scanty periods
or amenorrhea
• Heat may cause heavy periods
• Blood stasis in the PC can cause painful
periods
• PC influences emotional problems connected
with the menses
 Yin organ interrelationships
• Yin organs interrelate
• Health depends on proper functioning
and balance of organ systems
 Heart and lungs
• Zong qi-qi of the chest
• Qi commands blood
• Blood mother of qi
• Need one another as heart and lungs
need one another
• Heart governs blood and lungs govern
qi
 Heart and Lungs
• Heart relies on lungs to provide qi to
circulate blood
• Lungs rely on the blood from the heart
for nourishment
 Heart and liver
• Relationship involves blood
• Liver stores blood that nourishes the heart.
Either can be deficient
• If not enough get palpitations and insomnia
(def. liver blood) excessive dreaming and
dizziness (def. heart blood)
• If heart blood fails to anchor shen , get
depression, anxiety, insomnia, palpitations
 Heart and kidneys
• Heart upper burner
• Kidneys lower burner
• Heart fire element
• Kidney water element
• Fire and water must balance each other
• In constant balance kidney yin rises to
nourish heart and heart yang descends
to nourish kidney
Loss of contact b/w heart and
kidneys
• Water not nourishing heart get empty
heat of heart causing palpitations,
mental restlessness, insomnia, malar
flush, night sweats and a red peeled
tongue with a crack in the center.
 Shen and Jing
• The jing nourishes the essence. A supply of
Essence is needed for the activity of the
mind.
• Weak essence mind will suffer
• Person will lack vitality, self confidence and
will power
• If mind is perturbed essence will not be
directed by the mind person will lack
motivation and be tired all the time
 Heart, kidneys and menses
• Menses yin to yang to yin
• Kidneys are origin for tian gui the
menstrual blood
• Yang increases maximally at ovulation
• Heart qi and heart blood descend during
period to promote downward of blood
during period and for yang
transformation at ovulation
 Lung qi and Liver blood
• Lungs govern qi
• Liver stores blood
• Lungs relay on liver qi for smooth
movement of qi
• If liver qi does not ascend to lung get
listlessness, depression, cough and
hypochondriac pain
• “metal not controlling wood”
 Liver and spleen
• Spleen makes blood
• Liver stores blood
• Stagnant liver qi causes disruption in
spleen function causing bloating,
abdominal pain, irritability and distention
• Earth insulting wood
 Liver and kidneys
• Liver blood replenishes essence stored in
kidneys to contribute to the making of blood
• Essence contributes to making blood stored
by liver
• Liver provides blood to uterus and kidneys
are the origin of the tian gui menstrual blood
so both have a role in menses
• Both kidney and liver are connected to the
ren mai and chong mai channels important in
reproduction
 Spleen and lungs
• Spleen extracts essence from food and sends
clear qi up to the lungs.
• Spleen relies on qi from the lungs to help the
transformation and transportation of food and
body fluids
• If deficient spleen qi, get reduced energy,
weak limbs, breathlessness and weak voice
• Earth not producing metal
 Spleen and kidneys
• Spleen root of post heaven qi
• Kidneys root of pre heaven qi
• If spleen qi deficient, cant replenish kidney
essence causing tiredness, lack of appetite,
dizziness, tinnitus, lower backache
• If kidney yang is deficient, the fire of the gate
of life does not warm the spleen, causing
diarrhea and chilliness
• Spleen qi helps kidneys transformation and
excretion of fluids and dampness can collect
 Lungs and kidneys
• Kidneys help lung to grasp qi
 Spleen and heart
• Mental disturbance can have a
deleterious effect on the blood but can
also affect the splenic transformation
• Conversely the lack of splenic
tranformation may reduce grain and
water qi getting to the heart
• Bleeding not contained by the spleen
can result in heart blood deficiency
Class three
Functions of Yang Organs
 Stomach
• Most important of all the yang organs
• Controls receiving
• Controls rotting and ripening
• Sea of water and grains
• Great source of nourishment for the six
yang organs
• Together with spleen is the root of post
heaven qi
 Stomach
• Receiving= healthy appetite
• Belching, nausea and vomiting, weak
stomach receiving
• 5 yin organs derive qi from the stomach
• Stomach qi synonymous with good
prognosis and life itself
• Tongue coating with a thin white rooted
coating reflects strong stomach qi
 Stomach
• If stomach and spleen qi are weak,
person is weak
• Liver qi helps the descending of
stomach qi
• Pulse that is smooth and not too strong
or too weak is considered to have good
stomach qi
 Stomach
• Only yang organ in front of body
• Descends fluids a yin movement but is yang
organ
• Likes wetness even though its yang
• Spleen likes dryness even though its yin
• Stomach prone to heat
• Spleen prone to cold
• Spleen and stomach probably closest
yin/yang pair
 Large intestine
• Controls passage and conduction
• Transforms stools and reabsorbs fluid
• Is prone to heat or cold
• Many of the western functions of large
intestine are attributed in Chinese
medicine to the spleen and liver
• E.g. IBS is spleen-liver disharmony
 Large intestine
• Influences capacity for letting go and not
dwelling in the past
• Related to lung
• if lung qi is xu, then constipation can result
• If constipation and stagnation of food, the
lung qi is impaired and we may see
breathlessness
• Because paired with the lung, see skin issues
related to LI
 Small intestine
• Receives food from stomach and spleen and
separates dirty from clean
• Separates pure from impure
• Separates what we need from what we don’t
need
• Clean transported by spleen to other tissues
• Dirty is eliminated via urine (bladder) and
stool (large intestine)
 Small intestine
Influences urination via kidney yang that
helps the fluid transformation
If the organ is hot there may be scanty
yellow urination
If the organ is cold there may be copious
clear urination
 Small intestine and heart
• Have a relationship in that the heart houses
the mind and the small intestine allows us to
sort things out and make a judgment
• SI 5 best point to influence judgment
• Heart fire can be transmitted down to small
intestine and we get signs like bitter taste,
blood in the urine, tongue ulcers and thirst
 Gall bladder
• Controls storage and excretion of bile
• Decision making
• sinews
 Gall bladder
• Gall bladder qi is gall bladder fire, not
pathological fire but fire that aids digestion
• Liver qi helps bile flow smoothly, if it does not
get nausea and belching
• Only yang organ that stores a pure
substance, bile
• Minister fire helps GB transmit heat to
digestive organs to aid digestion
 Gall bladder
• Like a circuit panel for all the other
organs
• With liver controls sinews
• Liver provides blood for nourishment
• Gall bladder provides qi to sinews to
ensure agility and movement
• GB 34 is gathering point for sinews
 Gall bladder mental aspect
Gall bladder divergent channel goes through
the heart
If the mind is weak tonify GB to support the
heart
Mind provides clarity and the GB provides
courage to carry out decisions
GB qi stimulates free flow of liver qi on mental
level
If this is not happening, the person will be
depressed, if excessive, person is manic
 Gall bladder and sleep
• If the GB is deficient, one wakes early in
am and cannot fall back to sleep
 Gall bladder deficiency
Causes indecision, timidity and
discouragement at the slightest
adversity
 Bladder
• Clear fluids from small intestine pass on to
bladder which stores and excretes urine
• Transforming fluids requires qi and heat
provided by kidney yang
• Copious clear excessive urination indicative
of a deficiency in the ming men.
• Bladder is yang aspect of kidney ming men
 Bladder
• Small intestine, heart, triple burner, liver and
lungs all work together with the bladder to
control urination
• SI 2 used in urinary diseases
• Bladder divergent channel flows thru the
Heart
• Heart disharmonies can be transmitted to
bladder to cause blood in urine via the small
intestine
 Bladder mental aspects
• Imbalance in emotions such as
jealousy, suspicion and holding of long
standing grudges
 Triple burner
• Officially one of the six yang organs
• Is it an organ or a function?
• Does it have form or not?
 Triple burner
• Mobilizes the original qi
• Controls transportation and penetration
of qi
• Controls the water passages and the
excretion of fluids
 Triple burner
• Controls the entering and exiting of Qi in all
parts of the body and especially the body
cavities. Liver has no such function in relation
to the body cavities
• TB-6 is point to stimulate Triple burner’s
function of transportation and penetration of
qi
• Controls the three qi? Gathering qi (upper
burner), nutritive qi (middle burner) and
defensive qi (lower burner)
 Triple burner
• Upper burner as a mist
• Middle burner maceration chamber ( stomach
fluids)
• Lower burner like a ditch (urine)
• Body cavities
• Chest, abdominal, pelvic, joint, space
between skin and muscles, space above
diaphragm, spaces in between membranes,
spaces between membranes and abdominal
cavity.
Class Four
 Functions of Extraordinary
Yang Organs
• All of them store some sort of refined
essence
 Uterus
• Zi Bao in Chinese
• Bao a strcture common to men and woman in
the Dan Tien
• In men houses sperm
• In woman is the uterus
• The most impt. Of the 6 Extra Yang Organs
• Regulates menses, conception and
pregnancy
 Uterus
• Yin and Yang
• Yin stores blood and fetus
• Yang in that it discharges blood at
menses and baby in childbirth
• Uterus related to Kidneys and both the
ren and the chong originate from the
Kidneys and flow thru the uterus
 Uterus
• Supplied by kidney essence via the
directing and penetrating vessels the
ren and the chong.
• If ren and chong are empty the uterus is
inadequately supplied with Blood and
Essence so there can be irregular men
ses, amenorrhea or infertility
 Uterus
• The ren brings yin to uterus
• The chong and the du bring the yang
• Connected to the kidneys via the Bao Luo
thd to the Heart via the Uterus Bessel Bao
Mai
• Kidneys are the origin of the menstrual blood
• Heart and emotional problems influence
menstruation strongly
 Uterus
• Heart qi and Heart Blood descend to
Uterus promoting the discharge of blood
during the bleeding phase and the
discharge of the eggs during ovulation
• The beginning of bleeding and the
ovulation are transformative moments of
yin into yang and back again cyclically
 Uterus
• Heart governs blood and the Heart
blood nourishes the uterus
• Heart Yang descends down to meet the
Kidney Essence to form the Tian Gui,
the menstural blood
• Spleen supplements blood
• Liver supplies blood to Uterus if not
sufficient quantity get amenorrhea
 Uterus
• Because Liver stores Blood and
regulates volume of Blood menstrual
irregularities are often due to a
dysfunction of the Liver
• Chong Mai links Stomach and
Uterus=morning sickness and nausea
and vomiting, disruption of stomach Qi
 Uterus
• For menses to be regular and normal
• Liver blood and qi must move smoothly
• Heart blood and qi must descend toward the
uterus
• In men the Uterus is related to kidneys and
Du and produces sperm
• If Du mai and essence and empty person
may get impotence, premature ejaculation,
spermatorrhea, watery sperm
 Prostate
• Prostate is male equivalent of uterus
• Room of Essence is not an actual organ
• Du, Ren and Chong originate from the
space between the kidneys and flow
thru the uterus in females and through
the prostate in males
 Brain
• Called Sea of Marrow
• Kidney Essence produces Marrow
• Marrow gathers to fill brain and spinal
cord
• Brain depends on Heart Blood for its
nourishment
• Activities of brain depend on kidney
essence and heart blood
 Brain
• If they kidney essence and heart blood
are empty, the brain is sluggish, poor
memory, poor vitality, poor hearing and
poor sight
• Poor memory and concentration,
dizziness and blurry vision can be
deficiency of sea of marrow
 Brain
• Its functions are to
• Control intelligence
• Controls sight, hearing , smell and taste
• Some Chinese Doctors attributed the
mental functions to the brain and some
to the heart
• Overlap between the function of the
Brain and the Heart
 Marrow
• Marrow functions
• Fills the bones
• Contributes to making Blood
• Nourishes the Brain
 Bones
• Kidneys control the bones
• Kidney points can be used to strengthen
bones and prevent osteoporosis
• Bones structural framework of body
• Cavity that houses Marrow
• Functionally related to the Kidneys
 Blood vessels
• Yang because they act as a container
• House the blood
• Vehicle for circulation of Qi and blood
• Transport the refined food essences, Qi
and Blood all over the body
 Gall bladder
• Stores a pure substance (bile)
• Does not deal with food, drink or waste
products
• Gall Bladder helps us make decisions and
gives us courage to act on decisions
• Qi of the Gall Bladder gives the Hun the
capacity for movement
• The Mind is the source of inspiration,
creativity, direction, purpose, plans, aims, life
dreams
 Four Seas
• Sea of Qi:fullness of chest, red face,
breathlessness
• Sea of Blood:feel body getting bigger
Or feel body getting smaller
• Sea of Food: abdominal fullness or def.
hungry but no desire to eat
• Sea of Marrow-excess light limbs and feeling
of strength
• Deficiency: dizziness, tinnitus, blurry vision,
weak legs, desire to lie down
 Review
• Exam
• Evaluation forms