In the order of Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung and Kidney is like the relationship between a mother and the child.
In the order of Liver, Spleen, Kidney, Heart and Lung is when they are against each other.
The Liver is called the emotional organ. It is like wood, which needs space to stretch. If your not happy your Liver Qi is stagnate and you get depressed. When your Liver blood is deficient, not enough water for the wood you also get depressed. For example, if one is irritated, hyper and so on,we see that as an emotional problem, and we treat the Liver. It also means that the Liver Yang is high. We then ask the question why is it high? It can be caused by a Liver Yin that is low, or can be caused by a
Kidney Yin that is low. The Kidney is a water organ; the two need to be balanced.
The Heart is fire, which is warm. When the Heart Qi or Yang is deficient, this means that it doesn’t have enough power to move the blood. For example, one will have pale lips, pale face, cold extremes, when they walk a little they may feel a palpitation and so on. When the Heart Yin is deficient, one easily feels restless and also has insomnia.
Spleen is earth. Without earth there isn’t nutrition. Nothing would grow. So as they always say, as long as you can eat, there is a chance for survival.
Lung is metal. Metal is heavy. Heavy stuff always goes down. Which means that if the Lung Qi were going up instead of going down, one would feel short of breathe and would have a cough.
Kidney is water. Kidney is related to the genitourinary system. Any urinary problem and sexual problem can be blamed on the Kidneys.
In Western Medicine the organs are just organs, but in Chinese Medicine they are more that just organs. For example, when we talk about the Liver it’s the Liver Qi, Liver Blood, Liver Yin, and Liver Yang.
Later on when we combine other cases you’ll have a better understanding of how Chinese Medicine treats the body in the healing process.
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