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The zangfu are also connected to the twelve standard meridians – each yang meridian is attached to a fu organ and each yin meridian is attached to a zang. They are five systems of Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, Kidney. [1] [2] [3] To highlight the fact that the zangfu are not equivalent to the anatomical organs, their names are often capitalized.
Hua Tuo (c. 140–208), courtesy name Yuanhua, was a Chinese physician who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty. [1] Historical texts, such as Records of the Three Kingdoms and Book of the Later Han record Hua Tuo as having been the first person in China to use anaesthesia during surgery.
When the two (Yin+Yang) forces are united they create a divine energy, which supports the flow of all life. Yin organs represent: femininity, coldness, compression, darkness, and submission. Yang organs represent: masculinity, expansion, heat, motion, and action. This duality (yin+yang) must be in balance or else disease of the mind and body ...
Meridian name (Chinese) Quality of Yin or Yang Extremity Five Elements Organ Time of Day Taiyin Lung Channel of Hand (手太陰肺經) or Hand's Major Yin Lung Meridian: Greater Yin (taiyin, 太陰) Hand (手) Metal (金) Lung (肺) 寅; yín; 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. Shaoyin Heart Channel of Hand (手少陰心經) or Hand's Minor Yin Heart Meridian
San Jiao is believed to be a body cavity of some kind which has the ability to influence other organs, and overall health, mainly through the free movement of Qi, the fundamental energy or life force on the microcosm and on the macrocosm it is associated with the interactions between The Heavens, humans and earth. [1] San Jiao means "triple ...
Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang, respectively. [1] Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 2 3 = 8 trigrams, whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology .
This Chinese name sanbao originally referred to the Daoist "Three Treasures" from the Daodejing, chapter 67: "pity", "frugality", and "refusal to be 'foremost of all things under heaven'". [1] It has subsequently also been used to refer to the jing, qi, and shen and to the Buddhist Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). This latter use is ...
The manuals of the immortals say: 'One Yin and one Yang constitute the Tao; the three primary (vitalities) and the union of the two components; that is the [inner elixir]'. When the flow goes up against the stream to nourish the brain, this is called 'making the jing return' (huanjing) [溯流補腦謂之還精]. (Needham and Lu 1983: 124)