Fu/Extraordinary Fu Flashcards
What are the 6 Fu (Bowels)?
Stomach
Small Intestine
Large Intestine
Gall Bladder
[Urinary] Bladder
Triple Burner
What are the 6 Extraordinary Bowels?
Bones
Marrow
Brain
Vessels
Uterus
Gall Bladder
Stomach Seat:
What does it like? What does it loathe?
Stomach is the sea of what?
Granary Official (same as Spleen)
It likes moist, loathes dry
Stomach is the “Sea of water and grain, Qi and Blood”
What are the main functions of the Stomach?
- controls receiving
- controls rotting and ripening [of food]
- controls descending
“Spleen and Stomach are the Granary official [from where] the five flavors eminate”
- Spleen and stomach the source of Water and Grain Qi; central organs in digestion
STOMACH MAIN FUNCTIONS
Controls Receiving
- food enters the body via mouth and descends to and is received by the Stomach
- stomach receives and holds down food and drink
- “Humans receive Qi from grain, and grain is the Sea of water, grain, Qi and Blood.”
STOMACH MAIN FUNCTIONS
Controls Rotting and Ripening of Food
- food enters the Stomach and the Stomach begins process of digestion (e.g. rotting and ripening)
STOMACH MAIN FUNCTIONS
Controls Descending
- “Stomach descends and is harmonious”
- Stomach receives water and grain, holds them down, rots/ripens them, then sends the turbid down to SI
- major component in maintaining movement of Qi in entire body: Qi mechanism
Stomach likes Moist
- Stomach is yang and its nature is dry
- Stomach fluids (Stomach-yin) are necessary for proper Stomach function
- Stomach fluids/Stomach-yin are easily damaged
STOMACH is the Sea of:
:Water and Grain, Qi and Blood
- Water and Grain are the source of Qi and Blood
“Humans receive Qi from grain, and grain is received by the stomach. The stomach is the Sea of water, grain, Qi, and Blood.”
SMALL INTESTINE Seat:
What are its main functions?
Official of Receiving and Filling
Main Functions:
- Controls Receiving and Transformation
- Controls separation of clear from turbid
(Small Intestine receives food and drink from Stomach/Spleen and further transforms it)
SMALL INTESTINE MAIN FUNCTIONS
Controls Receiving and Transforming
- SI receives food and drink from Stomach and continues process of digestion
- TRANSFORMING: spearates clear from turbid
- clear food and fluids to Spleen
- turbid (food to LI, fluids to UB)
SMALL INTESTINE MAIN FUNCTIONS
Controls Separation of Clear from Turbid
- SI receives fluids from stomach
- separates clear fluids from turbid fluids
- clear fluids sent to Spleen
- turbid fluids sent to UB
LARGE INTESTINE Seat:
What are the main functions?
Official of Passage and Conduction
Main Functions
- Controls Passage and Conduction
- Absorb Fluids and Forms (“Transforms”) and Excretes the Stool
LARGE INTESTINE MAIN FUNCTIONS
(Both on Slide)
- Controls Passage and Conduction
* LI receives remnants of food and drink from SI, conducts it along while extracting the correct amount of fluids to form (ie transform) the stool, and finally excretes it - Absorbs Fluids and Transforms the Stool
* LI performs the final transformation of the digested food by extracting fluids from it and causing the stool to form (too much absorbed = dry stool, too little absorbed = loose stool)
GALL BLADDER Seat:
What are the main functions?
What derives from the Gall Bladder?
Upright Official (Impartial Judge)
Main Functions:
- Stores and Excretes Bile
- Controls Decisiveness
Courage derives from the Gall Bladder
GALL BLADDER MAIN FUNCTIONS
Stores and Excretes Bile
- Liver generates bile and Gall Bladder stores and excretes bile
- free flow of Liver-Qi helps GB excrete bile into intestines
- bile assists in digestion
- GB stores “pure” substance
- different than regular Fu organs which transmit “impure” substances
- therefore, also categorized as Extroardinary Fu organ
GALL BLADDER MAIN FUNCTIONS
Controls Decisiveness
- ability to make decisions
- Liver related to planning
- GB related to decision
GALL BLADDER and Courage
Gall Bladder Gives Rise to Courage
- Big Gall Bladder
- courageous
- Small Gall Bladder
- timid
URINARY BLADDER Seat:
What is its main function?
(details provided)
District Capital
“Urinary Bladder is the district capital that stores body fluids [which] exit [under the power of] Qi transformation”
Main Function
- Stores (temporarily) and excretes urine
- UB receives fluids from SI and further transforms them into clear and turbid
- known as “Bladder Qi-Transformation”
- all under power of Kidney-Yang
TRIPLE BURNER Seat:
What are its functions?
Irrigation Official
“TB is the irrigation official [from where] the water passages emanate.”
Main Functions:
- Passageway for Original Qi (Yuan Qi)
- Passageway for Movements of Qi
- Passageway for Water and Grain
- Passageway for Body Fluids
TB MAIN FUNCTIONS
Mobilizes the Original Qi (Yuan Qi)
- TB distributes Original Qi to all the organs and the entire body
- OQ is rooted in the Kidney and is the most fundamental Qi of the body
- nourishes and promotes functions of all organs and tissues
TB MAIN FUNCTIONS
Passageway for movements of Qi
- ascending, descending, entering and exiting all depend on TB
- in all organs and all areas of the body
- TB is said to control all types of Qi
TB MAIN FUNCTIONS
Passageway for Water and Grain
- transportation and transformation of food and drink under purvey of TB
- transforms food and drink into nutrition and eliminates the waste
- UJ receives (eating)
- MJ rots and ripens
- LJ separates clear from turbid, eliminates waste
TB MAIN FUNCTIONS
Passageway for Body Fluids
- Irrigation official
- Body Fluids are transported through entire body via TB’s fluid (water) passages
[Lungs govern water passages, Lung controls Qi, Qi moves Body Fluids]
UPPER BURNER
MIDDLE BURNER
LOWER BURNER
UJ (above the diaphragm)
- Heart, Lungs, Pericardium, throat, head
Function: distributes essences of water and grain (qi, blood, body fluids) to entire body “like a mist”
MJ (b/w diaphragm and umbilicus)
- Spleen, Stomach Liver, GB
Function: transformation and transportation of food and drink “like a maceration chamber”
LJ (below the umbilicus)
- Liver, Kidney, Intestines, Urinary Bladder
Function: conducting [and excreting] stool and excreting urine “like a ditch”
Extraordinary Fu/Bowels
- Hollow like bowels, but store substances like the viscera which makes them “not ordinary”
1. Bones
2. Marrow
3. Brain
4. Vessels
5. Uterus
6. Gall Bladder
BONES
What do they house?
What are they governed by?
- Structural Framework of the Body
- House the marrow
- Governed by the Kidney
MARROW
What is it produced by?
What does it fill?
What does it nourish?
Contributes to making _____?
- Produced by Kidney-essence
- Fills the brain, spinal cord, and bones
- Nourishes the bones and the brain
- Contributes to making Blood (related to essence)
BRAIN
Sea of _______?
What does it control?
“Sea of Marrow”
- Controls sight, hearing, smell, and taste
- Controls intelligence (“head is the palace of intelligence)
VESSELS
Container/residence of what?
What do they house?
What do they do?
- container/residence of Blood
- house the Blood and are the vehicle for circulation of Blood and Qi
- the vessels transport food essences, Qi and Blood to entire body
UTERUS
What does it regulate?
What does it house?
What is it closely related to?
- regulates menstruation
- houses the fetus during pregnancy
- closely related to the Chone, Ren, and Kidney (Qi, Blood, essence nourish uterus and promote and regulate menstruation, fertility, and pregnancy)
