Functions of Officials

Question 1

XI Stomach

Answer 1

1. Controls rotting and ripening of food
2. Controls the transportation of food essences
3. Controls the descending of qi
4. Is the origins of fluids

Question 2

VIII Liver

Answer 2

1. Stores blood
2. Ensures the smooth flow of qi
3. Controls the sinews
4. Manifest in the nails
5. Opens into the eyes
6. Houses the HUN, ethereal/spiritual soul

Question 3

VII Spleen

Answer 3

1. Governs transformation and transportation
2. Controls blood
3. Controls muscles and the four limbs
4. Opens into the mouth and manifests in the lips
5. Controls the raising of qi
6. Houses the YI (reflection: thinking and studying, concentrating, focusing, memorizing)

Question 4

III Bladder

Answer 4

1. Removes water by qi transformation

Diseases are climate, emotions, excessive sex

Question 5

Small Intestine II

Answer 5

Responsible for receiving and transforming food by separating clean from dirty.

Tai Yang relationship: small intestine and bladder, helps bladder transform Qi

Question 6

Lung IX

Answer 6

1. Governs Qi and Respiration
2. Controls channels and blood vessels
3. Controls dispersing and descending of Qi
   Wei Qi is defensive Qi, for adjusting pores
4. Regulates the water passages (body fluids)
5. Manifests in skin and hair
6. Opens into the nose
7. Houses the Po (corporeal soul)

Question 7

Heart Protector V

Answer 7

1. Protects heart from insult and injury (V-6 Inner Frontier Gate)
2. Controls internal and external sexual secretions (not reproduction, but sexuality) Mingmen/gate of vitality is important between heart and kidneys
3. Helps maintain health of arteries and veins
   Jue Yin Relatioship: heart protector and liver

Question 8

IV Kidneys

Answer 8

1. Store Jing essence: governs birth, growth, repduction, development
   2.produce marrow, fill up the brain, control the bones
2. Governs water
3. Controls the reception of Qi
4. Opens into the ears
5. Manifests in the hair
6. Controls the two lower orifices (urethra/spermatic duct and anus)
7. House the zhi (will to life)
   MINGMEN: essential aspect of kidney function. Right kidney is mingmen which is residence of shen . In women connected to uterus and in men it stores Jing.

FUNCTIONS OF MINGMEN:

1. Root of original QI
2. Source of fire for the internal organs
3. Warms the lower mingmen and the bladder
4. Warms stomach and spleen and aids digestion
5. Harmonizes sexual functions, warms Jing and the uterus
6. Assists the kidneys in the reception of qi
7. Assist the heart function of housing the shen

Question 9

Heart I

Answer 9

1. Governs blood
2. Controls blood vessels
3. Manifests in complexion
4. Opens into toungue. Heat is dry and dark, red tip. Ulcers is severe heat, blood deficiency is pale and thin. Imbalance also causes stuttering, incessant laughter or speech
5. Controls sweat
6. Houses Shen (consciousness, sleep, memory, clarity, emotional health)

Bad influences: cold and salt, yang diseases, heat
Shao Yin Relationship: heart and kidney

Question 10

Triple Heater VI

Answer 10

Maintains suitable temperature for the officials to carry out their functions. Heating Engineer
Upper, Middle and Lower Jiao
Shao Yang Relationship: Gall bladder and Triple Heater

Question 11

VII Gall Bladder

Answer 11

1. Stores and excretes bile

2. Controls sinews