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The zangfu (simplified Chinese: 脏腑; traditional Chinese: 臟腑; pinyin: zàngfǔ) are functional relationships stipulated by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This concept did not primarily develop out of anatomical biological considerations, but from cosmological patterns and influences.
Each zang is paired with a fu, and each pair is assigned to one of the Wuxing (Five Elements). The zangfu are also connected to the twelve standard meridians – each zang organ is attached to a yin meridian, and each fu organ, to a yang meridian. They are five systems of Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, Kidney.
To highlight the fact that the zangfu are not equivalent to the anatomical organs, their names are often capitalized.
The zangfu were originally considered to represent physical organs in Suwen. A few rare waves of human dissection throughout Chinese history have contributed some refinements to the rough anatomical assumptions in traditional Chinese medicine, though no fundamental errors were corrected (blood vessels remain mistaken as "thin meridians"). In this context, the influx of western anatomical knowledge lead to a crisis for TCM. This was resolved by Yun tieqiao's introduction of Zangxiang (藏象/脏象) theory in the 1920s, which decoupled the zangfu from anatomical organs.
Each zangfu organ has a yin and a yang aspect, but overall, the zang organs are considered to be yin, and the fu organs, yang.
Since the concept of the zangfu was developed on the basis of wuxing philosophy, they are incorporated into a system of allocation to one of five elemental qualities (i.e., the Five goings or Five Phases). The zangfu share their respective element's allocations (e.g., diagnostics of colour, sound, odour and emotion etc.) and interact with each other cyclically in the same way the Five Elements do: each zang organ has one corresponding zang organ that it disperses, and one that it reinforces or tonifying and sedative.
The correspondence between zangfu and Five Elements are stipulated as:
The zang organs' essential functions consist in manufacturing and storing qi and blood (and, in the case of the Kidney, jing or essence). The hollow fu organs' main purpose is to transmit and digest (传化, pinyin: chuánhuà) substances (like waste, food, etc.).
Zangfu
The zangfu (simplified Chinese: 脏腑; traditional Chinese: 臟腑; pinyin: zàngfǔ) are functional relationships stipulated by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This concept did not primarily develop out of anatomical biological considerations, but from cosmological patterns and influences.
Each zang is paired with a fu, and each pair is assigned to one of the Wuxing (Five Elements). The zangfu are also connected to the twelve standard meridians – each zang organ is attached to a yin meridian, and each fu organ, to a yang meridian. They are five systems of Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, Kidney.
To highlight the fact that the zangfu are not equivalent to the anatomical organs, their names are often capitalized.
The zangfu were originally considered to represent physical organs in Suwen. A few rare waves of human dissection throughout Chinese history have contributed some refinements to the rough anatomical assumptions in traditional Chinese medicine, though no fundamental errors were corrected (blood vessels remain mistaken as "thin meridians"). In this context, the influx of western anatomical knowledge lead to a crisis for TCM. This was resolved by Yun tieqiao's introduction of Zangxiang (藏象/脏象) theory in the 1920s, which decoupled the zangfu from anatomical organs.
Each zangfu organ has a yin and a yang aspect, but overall, the zang organs are considered to be yin, and the fu organs, yang.
Since the concept of the zangfu was developed on the basis of wuxing philosophy, they are incorporated into a system of allocation to one of five elemental qualities (i.e., the Five goings or Five Phases). The zangfu share their respective element's allocations (e.g., diagnostics of colour, sound, odour and emotion etc.) and interact with each other cyclically in the same way the Five Elements do: each zang organ has one corresponding zang organ that it disperses, and one that it reinforces or tonifying and sedative.
The correspondence between zangfu and Five Elements are stipulated as:
The zang organs' essential functions consist in manufacturing and storing qi and blood (and, in the case of the Kidney, jing or essence). The hollow fu organs' main purpose is to transmit and digest (传化, pinyin: chuánhuà) substances (like waste, food, etc.).