Zang Fu Flashcards
What are the 5 zang organs?
Heart, lung, spleen, liver, kidney.
What do fu organs do?
Can be filled up but not overfilled.
Receive and process food.
What 2 kind of acupuncture points do zang organs have at the body meridian channels.
Physical and spiritual (ghost) acupoints.
Name the zang organ for each 5 element (wood, fire, earth, metal, water).
Liver, heart, spleen, lung, kidney.
Chinese medicine combines 1 zang organ with 1 fu organ. Can you name the zang fu pairs for the 5 elements?
Wood: zang = liver and fu = gallbladder.
Fire: zang = heart and fu = small intestine.
Earth: zang = spleen and fu = stomach.
Metal: zang = lung and fu = large intestine.
Water: zang = kidney and fu = bladder.
What is so special about the San Jiao zang fu?
TCM combines a zang with a fu to create organ pairs but the San Jiao transverses all zang and all fu.
What is the pin yin Mandarin Chinese term from China for Zang Fu theory, and what does the term translate to in English?
Zang Xiang.
Zang = interior location of the organs.
Xiang = their manifestations on the exterior.
Describe or define zang fu theory.
Method to consider pathological and physiological changes at the exterior as having a root cause in the interior body.
Literal translation: the interior location of the of the organ and their manifestations on the exterior (Zang Xiang).
What are the 2 aspects of Zang Fu theory as a study? The studies of what?
The study of the physiology and pathology of the ORGANS, TISSUES, and the interdependent relationships between the ZANG and FU.
The study of physiology and pathology of the 4 essential substances (JING, QI, BLOOD, JIN YE) and the interdependent relationships between these substances and the ZANG FU.
How did Ancient China develop Zang Fu theory?
Anatomy and dissection - combined with knowledge of physiology, and pathology (during disease).
Describe where the zang fu organ groups that go into the San Jiao (upper, middle, lower Jiao) are found.
Upper Jiao: heart, lung.
Middle Jiao: stomach, spleen, pancreas.
Lower Jiao: small intestine, large intestine, liver, kidneys, gallbladder, bladder.
