What do the five viscera and six bowels refer to

Good day glad to answer your question. Simply put the five viscera: heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys. Six internal organs: stomach, intestines, bladder, pancreas, large intestine, small intestine .

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The five viscera and six bowels is the generalization of the Chinese medicine theory of internal organs. The five viscera include the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, with the role of biochemistry and storage of essence, is the most important system in the human body. The six internal organs include the gallbladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, San Jiao and bladder, all of which have the roles of transmitting and digesting food and excreting waste. Functions of the five viscera: heart: the main body of blood, the main spirit, for the twelve organs of the Lord, the opening of the orifice in the tongue, its Hua in the face, the liquid for sweat. Liver: the main blood, the main diaphragm (sparing emotions and assist digestion and absorption), and the main body of the fascia, the opening in the eye, its Hua in the claw, the liquid for the tears. Spleen: the main transport (transporting the essence of water and grain and transporting the water and moisture of the gas), regulating the blood, ascending and spreading the clear gas, and the main muscle, the opening of the orifices in the mouth, its Hua in the lips, and the liquid for the saliva. Lungs: The main division of respiration, for the body of the Huagai. It is the main propagation, purging and descending, and regulates the waterways. It opens the orifice in the nose, and its splendor is in the fur, and its liquid is snot. Kidneys: The kidneys hide the essence, the main reproductive development, a body of water vaporization, and the main bone marrow. It opens the orifices in the ear and the second yin, and its splendor is in the hair. The kidneys are the foundation of the innate nature, and qigong practitioners attach great importance to this organ. The essence of the kidney is divided into yin and yang. Functions of the six viscera: Gallbladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, bladder, San Jiao, known as the six viscera, of which the gallbladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine belongs to the digestive organs, the bladder belongs to the urinary organs, San Jiao is a special viscera that contains a variety of functions. Gallbladder: It is attached to the liver. Internal storage of essence, also known as the essence of the viscera. Gallbladder main decision-making, gallbladder gas is full of people with courage, gallbladder gas is weak is cowardly. Gallbladder is also the capital of Qiheng. Stomach: It is the same as the spleen. The upper mouth is called epigastric, the middle is called epigastric, and the lower mouth is called hypogastric. The main acceptance, putrefaction of water and grain, in order to descend for the smooth, also known as the sea of water and grain, and the spleen is called the basis of the day after tomorrow, there is an important role in taking in the essence of water and grain, nutrition of the whole body. Small intestine: connected to the stomach and the large intestine. The main secretion of the clear and turbid, the clear rise in the spleen, the spleen will be the essence of the transmission of the whole body, turbid injected into the large intestine, seepage in the bladder, into the dregs. The small intestine and the heart are mutually exclusive, heart disease, can affect the small intestine. The large intestine: and the lungs are mutually exclusive, the main conduction of dross. Dysfunctional conduction can lead to diarrhea, dysentery, secretion and knotting. Diseases of the lungs can affect the large intestine. Bladder: the main water metabolism, urine storage and urination, with the lungs, spleen, kidneys, San Jiao *** Division of water vaporization, and the kidneys are mutually exclusive. San Jiao: San Jiao is the channel of vital energy and water and liquid, its function is to run the vital energy, and the second is to run the water and liquid. The San Jiao is the road of water and grains, and the end and beginning of gas. Poor operation of the San Jiao channels will lead to the phenomenon of qi deficiency in certain parts of the body, and unfavorable San Jiao water channels will produce lesions such as urinary deficiency and edema....

---Chinese medicine divides the human body into five viscera and six bowels, the so-called "five viscera" is the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and "six bowels" is the gallbladder, small intestine, stomach, large intestine, bladder and triple jiao, as long as the "five viscera and six bowels" function properly, the body will be healthy and well. The kidneys, among the five viscera and six bowels, are an organ of the whole body. Therefore, in addition to metabolizing water, regulating water, absorbing water, excreting urea and uric acid, and balancing sodium, potassium, and chlorine as mentioned in Western medicine, the kidneys have a wide range of functions from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Dr. Chih-Cheng Lin tells us that a person's whole body development, urinary system, growth and aging, digestion and respiration, and even adrenaline and renal medulla system, etc., are all closely related to the kidneys. Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the place where the body's essence is stored, and "kidney energy" is the basic substance that constitutes the body's life-sustaining activities, so "the kidney is the foundation of the innate nature", the kidney is the main bone, the kidney is the main water, and the kidney is the root of growth and development. Therefore, it is important to protect the kidney as an important organ.

The five viscera are yin, six bowels are yang,

Triple Jiao: Chinese medicine's unique name for one of the six bowels, is the path of the water run, the general division of the body fluid gasification function. The current Chinese medicine clinic to San Jiao to separate the body organs parts.

I. Upper Jiao: the chest above the diaphragm (including the heart, lungs), and the head, face and upper limbs.

II. Middle Jiao: the abdomen below the diaphragm and above the navel, i.e., from the upper opening of the stomach (cardia) to the lower opening of the stomach (pylorus), including the spleen, stomach, liver and gallbladder.

Third, the lower jiao: the small abdomen below the navel, including the small intestine, large intestine, kidneys, bladder and so on.

Medicine is a comprehensive natural science, and clinical medicine is an applied science, not only contains the physics, chemistry, biology, physiology and other basic sciences, but also as small as molecular biology, microscopic histology, as large as systemic physiology, gross anatomy, but also sub-pediatric internal, surgical, neurological, surgical, cardiological, surgical ... ... longitudinal and latitudinal, omnipresent!

Traditional Chinese medicine is more of an interesting study, because Chinese medicine emphasizes that the human body is a small universe, is a whole. To study traditional Chinese medicine, although it can be divided into different categories and departments, but in the end, it has to be integrated into a system, to integrate so many diverse information, it is really like writing the list of the gods or Tianfangyantan, to hundreds of gods or a thousand stories in the same book. Before discussing the possible contents of TCM, let's first try to understand some of the existing theories of TCM.

According to the Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine published by the Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House (edited by Yin Huhe, fifth edition, 1988), the basic characteristics of Chinese medicine are two:

One, the concept of wholeness

Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the unity and integrity of the human body itself, its interrelationship with the natural world, and its belief that the human body is a whole. The interrelationship with the natural world, that the human body is an organic whole, structurally inseparable. Functionally, they harmonize with each other and are mutually useful. Pathologically, the body is influenced by each other. The unity of the body as a whole is centered on the five viscera, with six internal organs through the meridian system, belonging to the internal organs, external contacts in the limbs and joints to achieve. Chinese medicine is defined by the five viscera is the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, six bowels is the stomach, small intestine, large intestine, bladder, San Jiao and gallbladder. These five viscera and six bowels contain organs and their meridians.

Second, the dialectical treatment

This is the Chinese medicine to recognize the disease and treatment of disease characteristics. The "evidence" is the organism in the process of disease development at a certain stage of pathological generalization, and "dialectic" is the four diagnostic (looking, listening, questioning and cutting) collected information, symptoms and physical evidence, through analysis, synthesis, identification of the cause of the disease and the nature of the site, as well as the relationship between good and evil. There are often different treatments for the same disease and the same treatment for different diseases, because Chinese medicine is a dialectical treatment rather than a treatment according to disease.

The basic doctrine of traditional Chinese medicine is based on yin and yang, the five elements and organs for its essence, yin and yang is the category of ancient Chinese philosophy, initially refers to the back of the sunlight to the sun for the sun, the back of the sun for the yin, and later extended to the warm and cold of the climate, the direction of the upper and lower, the static and dynamic and other contrasting assignments. Chinese medicine has according to the organization part of the five viscera as Yin, six viscera as Yang, the lower part of the Yin, the upper part of the Yang. Chinese medicine in the balance between static and dynamic, is the so-called "yin and yang secret" and "dynamic pole of the town of static, yin and hyperactive people win the sun" so "to the neutralization" has become the highest state of Chinese medicine.

The Five Elements doctrine is composed of five substances: wood, fire, earth, gold and water, which are considered to be the basis of all physical properties, and because of their mutual attributes, there is a relationship between birth and death and control than. And according to the characteristics of the five organs, such as wood can be straight, branches and leaves up to the characteristics of the hair, there is the function of excretion, so the liver is wood; fire warm, its nature on the inflammation, the heart of the warmth of the work, so the heart of the fire; the earth nature of the thick and the characteristics of the birth of all things; the spleen has the transport of the water each, conveying the essence of the essence, the essence of the five internal organs, the limbs and bones of the work, so the spleen of the earth; the gold nature of the purity of, astringent, the lungs with the nature of the purge; lungs to clear and clean as the Lung gas is clear and clean, so the lung is water. Water is fire, fire is gold, and gold begets water, water begets wood, wood begets fire, fire begets earth, and earth begets gold to describe. With the above foundation, the six viscera and the five viscera, and the properties of the six viscera and the five viscera related to the extension to the gas, blood, fluids, and meridian system. The meridian system also belongs to the five viscera and six bowels.

The entire Chinese medicine theory system as described above, clear veins and orderly system. The treatment method is also the same can be divided into yin and yang; acupuncture has tonic and diarrhea techniques, and the drug is also cold, warm and hot and other attributes. Treatment is also divided into five viscera and six bowels or twelve meridians, acupuncture points belong to the twelve meridians, and the Ren-Du vein. The drugs are also divided into five viscera and six bowels and have the theory of the meridian.

By the above theory, it seems that yin and yang and five elements for the philosophical structure of Chinese medicine, and the five viscera and six bowels and twelve meridians for the physiological structure of Chinese medicine, we can not help but ask, what is the relationship between this philosophical structure and physiological structure? What is the relationship between this philosophical framework and the physiological framework? In fact, if we can answer this big question, we can naturally find the scientific basis for this theory.

In recent years, we have discovered the phenomenon of **** vibration in the basic theory of blood circulation. Blood vessels have their own specific **** vibration frequency, and organs and acupuncture points also have their own **** vibration frequency. Organs or acupuncture points and arteries are coupled to vibrate and thus produce a frequency division phenomenon. From this theory, each organ has its own **** vibration frequency, there are so many organs on the body, each organ has its own **** vibration frequency, it is not to have a thousand kinds of frequency. The heart is the source of the blood pressure wave power, in the normal state, it repeatedly repeated to hit the same waveform, by the Forsythian conversion can be known by the frequency composition of the repeated wave, only the harmonics of its own frequency. If we put the same harmonic **** vibration of the organs into one category, it is natural to get the internal organs and meridians relationship. The five viscera and their meridians each belong to a low frequency, so the yin; six viscera and their meridians, each belong to a high frequency, so the yang.

Sickness is first transmitted through the meridians, because the frequency of energy is not enough, the entire meridians are insufficient blood supply, the organs one by one lesions; when serious, it is the trans-meridian transmission, the use of the relationship between the phase of the table or the relationship between the birth of another meridian to go, the theory that we can understand the frequency of the pulse for the meridians of the indicators, then the Chinese medicine of the holistic view of the dialectical theory of treatment, and even the yin and yang and the five elements can be found in the reasonable explanation of the.

The theory of "qi" is that the pressure energy from the heart (which accounts for 95% of the energy in the circulatory system and only 5% of the kinetic energy of the blood) is distributed among the organs and meridians. If an organ has insufficient qi, then the pressure is insufficient, and when the sphincter of the tiny arteries in the organ is opened, the blood will not have the power to shoot into the microvessels and nourish the tissues. Therefore, this organ will be deprived of blood due to the insufficiency of qi, and naturally, it will be deprived of nutrients, oxygen, and resistance, and then the metabolic wastes will accumulate, which will lead to the accumulation of all kinds of diseases in the long run.

Why is there a shortage of qi? The biggest possibility is that the heart is not strong enough, which is a systemic "qi" deficiency, but also poor pulmonary circulation, then the blood is enough, but the oxygen content of the blood is not enough (smokers often have this problem), of course, can also be a meridian injury, especially injuries to the tendons and bones, then the meridian of the *** vibration of the condition of a serious obstacle to the whole *** vibration of the vibration of the amplitude of the repressed, of course, it is inevitable! The lack of blood affects the physiological functions and leads to illness. These changes, or changes in other organs, can be quantitatively diagnosed by a pulse diagnostic device.

Qigong, by a broad definition, can be any exercise that improves the distribution of blood in the body. In fact, aerobic dance can be regarded as a kind of crude qigong, in which mechanical and repetitive movements can improve blood circulation. However, the various gong methods that have been passed down in China since ancient times, together with the physiological basis of the five viscera, six bowels, and twelve meridians, are of course much more effective.