Jing Flashcards
True or false? Jing is the essence of the body.
True!
The refined pure nutritious substances transformed and controlled by qi, blood, and body fluid.
Reproductive jing (essence) stored in the kidney is responsible for what three things?
Growth, development, and reproduction.
Pre-natal jing (essence) is inherited from ________, stored in the _________, and is the original source of _________?
Parents, kidney, life.
*Pre-natal jing (essence) = inherited from parents, stored in the kidney, and is the original substance of life.
Post-natal jing (essence) comes from the _________ and _________ organs’ conversion of food into nutrients. Promotes __________ and __________, essential element of the production of ___________, ___________, and ____.
Comes from: spleen and stomach.
Promotes: growth and development.
Can create or produce: blood, marrow, and qi.
Functions of Jing? The quality of jing, which is stored in the kidney, controls the ability to reproduce.
Reason being, reproductive jing (essence) is the combined qualities of what two kinds of jing (essence)?
Innate and acquired jing (essence).
Kidney jing (essence) promotes the ability to reproduce and also the ____ required to reproduce.
Qi!
Since jing controls or promotes growth and development, how does jing change as we age?
Up and down! Jing increases as we mature, peaks, and then declines as we really age.
How does the quality and quantity of jing determine health throughout a person’s lifetime?
Abundant jing = you likely lived a long lifetime.
People that are weak, unwell, or frail early on in the life have a rapid decline of jing throughout life.
Genetic disorders in TCM are considered an abundance or deficiency of jing?
Genetic disorders are jing deficiency!
What essential substance is also an aspect of marrow, which nourishes the brain and bone marrow?
Jing!
Teeth are an extension of bone, so how are the jing and bone/teeth quality related?
Jing housed in the kidney nourishes bone marrow. Therefore, kidney jing (essence) quality/quantity is directly related to bone/teeth quality.
A patient had kidney jing (essence) deficiency. What health conditions did they likely describe of themselves as a result?
Depleted bone marrow leading to mental weakness, dizziness, amnesia, and/or weak bones and/or teeth!
Describe how jing (essence) and blood have the same origin.
Jing creates marrow, and marrow creates blood.
Jing nourishes and moistens what 4 things?
All organs, tissues, sense organs, and orifices.
Why does jing deficiency create 5 zang organ decline?
Deficient innate jing or restricted acquired jing creation result in 5 zang organ decline because of UNDERNOURISHMENT and LACK OF STIMULATION.
