Ancient Chinese Medicine — Zang Fu (Internal organs)

5 Zang (Yin organs)

1. Heart (coupled with small intestine)

• Governs the blood
• Linked with the mind
• Related to sweat
• Governs the face colour
• Opens to the tongue

2. Lung (coupled with large intestine)

• Governs the Qi and breathing
• Descending and dispersing
• Clears out the water channel
• Shows on the skin and hairs
• Opens to the nose

3. Spleen (coupled with stomach)

• Transporting and transforming
• Absorbing and digesting food and liquid
• Regulating the blood and rising up the Qi
• Relates to limbs and muscles
• Opens to the lips

4. Liver (coupled with gall bladder)

• Directing and clearing out the Qi
• Governs the emotions
• Restores the blood
• Governs the tendon and fingernails
• Opens to the eyes

5. Kidney (coupled with bladder)

• Restores body essence and reproductive system
• Governs the water
• Receives Qi from lung
• Governs the bones and marrows and hair
• Opens to the ears

6 Fu (Yang organs/channels)

1. Gallbladder

• Restore and secreting the bale
• Helping to digest

2. Stomach

• Receiving and digesting the food and liquid
• Descending the food and liquid to the small intestine

3. Small intestine

• Receiving food and liquid from the stomach and further digesting it
• Dividing the nutrition and rubbish
• Sending nutrition to the body and the rubbish to the large intestine

4. Large intestine

• Receiving and draining rubbish from the small intestine
• Passing the rubbish out of the body

5. Bladder

• Connecting and working with the kidney
• Storing urine and passing it out of the body

6. San Jiao (Triple Burner)

• Network channel for Qi and water not a physical organ
• Descending and ascending Qi and water