Liver Heart Pericardium Spleen Lungs Kidneys

Element Wood Fire Fire Earth, Center Metal Water

Paired with Gall Bladder Small Intestine San jiao (triple burner) Stomach Large Intestine Urinary Bladder
Corresponds Military general Emperor Minister fire (ming men) & ‘root of post-heaven qi’ Prime minister ‘root of pre-heaven qi’
‘root of pre-heaven qi in women’ Messenger
In Charge Of Planning and Strategy Orderly flow (administration)
Move / Qi Ji Upwards& Outwards/ Rising; ascending Rising; ascending Falling; descending Entering; sinking
Emotion Anger Joy Thought Sorrow Fear/Fright
Function 1) Manages free coursing (ensures 1) Manages emotions 1) Protective screen of the 1) Manages transportation and 1) Govern the Qi of the whole 1) Stores jing and manages birth,
smooth flow of qi) 2) Manages speech which should heart transformation of qi & fluid by body growth, reproduction, development,
- Qi mechanism of the whole body be coherent and without ➔ Protect heat evil e.g. SP Yang and SP Qi - Respiration and extract Da qi and aging
- Emotional state excessive laughter Febrile diseases - TF: food -> gu qi - Clear qi (descending); Dirty qi Jing -> KD yin+KD yang+ Yuan qi
- Digestion, including secretion 2) Minister of Fire (Ming Men) - TP: gu qi & gu jing -> LU, flesh, (dispersing) 2) Foundation of yin and yang for the
of bile limbs &others - Formation of body’s qi whole body
- Timing of menstrual cycle - TF: drink -> body fluid Da (air) qi + Gu (food) qi => - ‘origin of water and fire’
2) Generates internal wind - TP: send fluids up to the lungs Zong(gathering) qi in the chest - Yin (oil)/ Yang (flame)

and let turbid fluids continue on - Lu qi pushes Qi +Bl through - KD yin: fundamental substance for birth,
growth, reproduction
down vessels and channels
- KD yang(Ming Men, life gate): heat,
2) Raises clear while the stomach 2) Orderly flow
moving force of all physiological
descends the turbid - Helps HT circulate bl
processes
3) Production of qi and blood - Push qi
3) Engender marrow, Fill up brain, host
“root of post-heaven qi” 3) Descending and dispersing Qi
bones
“root of all post heaven products” and Fluids
4) Control strength and skill
Middle Jiao (SP+ST) - Descend great (air) qi upon
5) Cooperate with the triple burner to
1) Digestion inhalation/ push waste down
transform qi and move water
2) Manufacture through L..Intestinal.
6) Manage the fluid of the whole body
3) Distribution of nourishment - Outward mm of Qi: skin, body
KD Qi manages turbid fluids excretion via UB
4) Regulate ascending &descending hair, pores/ disperse Wei qi
KD Yang + San Jiao managed Fluid Metblsm
- Open and regulate the water
7) Absorb qi (KD Qi, KD yang)
passages at upper jiao
8) Life gate fire is associated with KD
- Descends fluids to KD & UB
- Disperse fluids to moisten skin
4) Receptacle that holds phlegm
Relationship 1) Stores blood 1) Governs (moves) the blood 1) Produces blood 1) In charge of orderly flow KD Jing -> Blood for fetus
with Blood - Regulates volume of blood (D/N) and the vessels 2) Manages or controls, holds - Help heart qi circulate blood, Qi Ming Men : (syn KD Yang, original, true yang)
- Menstruation (chong vessel, ‘sea - Blood as a whole belongs to the blood in the vessels moves blood Moving force of all body activity,
of blood’) heart - Push Qi through the channels - warms lower jiao&UB, warms middle jiao
- Moistens eye and sinews - harmonizes sex fn, warm jing&uterus
- “root of pre-heaven qi in women” - helps KD absorb Qi
- helps HT housing Shen
“Yin Fire”;Ming Men flares up.LIV&KD Yin def.
Opens into Eyes Tongue (speech, physical) Mouth (taste) Nose (connect with the throat) Ear, 2 lower (yin) orifices (urethra, anus) –
breathing, smelling controlling opening&closing, manage storage
Fluid Tears Sweat Drool Snivel Spittle
Hosts Sinews ->Smooth movement muscles & flesh (esp. four limbs) Voice
Manifest Nails Face: Complexion and facial expression Lips Body Hair Head hair
Stores Ethereal Soul (hun) (Yang Spirit->Bl&Yin Spirit (shen) (Yang Spirit) the boss of 4 Reflection (yi) Corporeal (animal) Soul (po) (Yin spirit) Will or Mind (zhi)
to anchor) - Mind, emotion, consciousness, - School-type of thinking and - Ability of sensation, feeling, - Goals and ability to pursue them
- Leaves body at night; dream& memory memorization hearing & sighing. -> breathing, - Short-term memory
sleep - Process incoming sensory and - Thinking, studying, crying
- Goes upwards after death mind&body reflection concentrating, focusing, - Goes to earth after death
- Process intuitive information memorizing
- Affect dream&sleep
Pref Condit/ Dryness (In disharmony ->make phlegm) Dedicate; cannot endure heat or cold
Channel reverting yīn ( jué yīn) hand lesser yīn (shào yīn) hand jué yīn(reverting(or absolute) yīn) foot tài yīn (greater yīn) hand greater yīn (tài yīn) foot lesser yīn (shào yīn)
 Gall Bladder Small Intestine Triple Burner (san jiao) Stomach Large Intestine Urinary Bladder
*summary fn of Yang organs + “sea of water and grains”
LU,SP,KD in fluid metabolite “origin of fluids’
Element Wood Fire Fire Earth Metal Water
Paired with Liver Heart Pericardium Spleen Lungs Kidneys
In Charge Of judgment and decision-making, courage movement of qi and fluids receiving and fermenting or rotting and
ripening
Movement of Descends
Qi
Function 1) Stores and excretes bile 1) Manages receiving, containing, 1) Pathway for source qi 1) Middle jiao (spleen, stomach): 1) Anus is called “gate of the po” 1) Manages the storage of fluids and
- Bile is clear fluid and transforming [KD jing-> yuan qi - digestion and production of post- 2) Manages conduction and humors
- Mansion of clear fluid 2) Manages the separation of the >,Ming men,san jiao- heaven qi conveyance of waste 2) Transform and Removes water by KD
2) Helps to control the sinews clear and the turbid >channels&organs] 2) Assists the spleen in - Malfunction of L.Intestine is qi
- Similar to the liver, but related to - Clear -> UB (urine) 2) Managing the waterways transportation of food jing more often related to the SP/ST
qi, not blood - Turbid -> LI (stool) “3 divisions, unified 3) Important in diagnosis and pathology
system” prognosis 3) Lung qi : pushes the stool down
- Upper (mist): heart, lung, - Its qi reaches the pulse, and the 4) Lung yin: moistens L.Intestine
intake, receiving, tongue coating is related to
absorbing stomach
- Middle (muddy pool): - Characteristics of the pulse as a
spleen, stomach, rotting, whole
ripening 4) ‘origin of fluids’
- Lower (ditch): liver, - Kidneys are the (exit) gate of the
kidneys, intestines, stomach
bladder, uterus, exiting,
excreting, reproduction
Pref Conditn moisture Moisture, Averse to dryness
Channel foot lesser yáng (shào yang) hand greater yáng (tài yang) hand lesser yáng (shào yang) foot yáng míng or yáng brightness hand yáng brightness or yáng míng foot greater yáng or tài yáng