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In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), emotions are intimately linked with organs and physical health. Learn what various emotions mean and their associations.
The zangfu (simplified Chinese: 脏腑; traditional Chinese: 臟腑; pinyin: zàngfǔ) organs are functional entities stipulated by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). These classifications are based on east Asian cosmological observations rather than bio medical definitions that are used in Western evidence based medical models.
Traditional Chinese medicine understood the body in energy, or chi, that passes through channels called meridians and connect to the body’s organs and functions. This model of the body is not concerned with anatomy in the way that Western medicine is.
Kidneys (Zang) and Bladder (Fu): Water. Liver (Zang) and Gall Bladder (Fu): Wood. Heart (Zang) and Small Intestine (Fu) (and, secondarily, Triple Burner, an organ with no anatomical reality): Fire. Let's look at each Zang organ and their respective roles according to Chinese medicine.
The model of the body in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has the following elements: the Fundamental Substances; Qi, ( Energy), Jing (Essence), Shen (Spirit) that nourish and protect the Zang-Fu organs; and the meridians (jing-luo) which connect and unify the body.
Zang and fu consist of the five zang and six fu organs. The five zang organs are the heart (including the pericardium), lung, spleen, liver, and kidney. The six fu organs are the gall bladder, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, urinary bladder and the sanjiao (three areas of the body cavity).
The Zàng-Fǔ organs are functional entities stipulated by Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). They constitute the centrepiece of TCM's general concept of how the human body works. The term zàng (脏) refers to the organs considered to be yin in nature – Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, Kidney – while fǔ (腑) refers to the yang organs ...