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Yin Organs Lung Meridian (fei)

Functions of the Lungs

• Lungs are called the "Lid of the Yin Organs" • Rule Qi and respiration • Control the channels and blood vessels (with the Heart) • Control dispersing and descending • Regulate and move the water passages • Control skin, sweat glands and body hair (the "Exterior") • Open into the nose • House the Po (corporeal soul) • Govern the voice

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Yin Organs Spleen (pi)

Functions of the Spleen

• Central organ in production of Qi and is called the "foundation of postnatal existence" • Extracts Food Qi (Gu Qi) from food and liquids taken into Stomach • Governs transformation and transportation • Controls the blood • Controls the muscles and the four limbs, • Opens into the mouth and manifests in the lips • Controls the raising of Qi, the "raising of the pure" • Houses thought

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Yin Organs Heart (xin)

Functions of the Heart

• Governs the blood • Controls the blood vessels • Manifests in the complexion • Stores the Shen “Houses the Mind” • Opens to the tongue • Controls sweat

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Yin Organs Kidneys (shen)

Functions of the Kidneys

• Store the Jing and rule birth, growth, development, reproduction, and sexuality • Produce marrow, fills up the brain, and rule the bones • Rule water and water metabolism • Control inspiration and the grasping of Qi • Open into the ears • Manifest in the head hair • Control the two lower orifices • Residence of the Zhi (Will Power) • Kidney Yin and Kidney Yang are the foundation of the Yin and Yang of the whole body

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Yin Organs Liver (gan)

Functions of the Liver

• Liver insures smooth flow of Qi • Stores the blood • Controls the sinews • Manifests in the nails • Opens into the eyes • Houses the Hun (Ethereal Soul)

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Yin Organs Pericardium (xin-bao)

Functions of the Pericardium

• The Heart Protector or Heart Governor • Outer membrane around the heart that protects it from attacks by exogenous pathogenic

factors.

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Yang Organs Stomach (wei)

Functions of the Stomach

• Controls "rotting and ripening" of Food • Controls transportation of food essences • Stomach affects tongue coating. • Controls the Descending of Qi • Stomach is the origin of fluids

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Yang Organs Small Intestine (xiao-chang)

Functions of the Small Intestine

• Controls receiving and transforming • Receives food and fluids from the Stomach, after the Stomach has "rotted and ripened"

and after the Spleen has extracted the food essences • Communicates with the Bladder, which excretes the impure fluids, and with the Large

Intestine, which excretes the impure solid waste

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Yang Organs Large Intestine (da-chang)

Functions of the Large Intestine

• Receive food and fluids from the Small Intestine • Re-absorb some of the fluids and then excrete the remainder as solid wastes

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Yang Organs Gall Bladder (dan)

Functions of the Gall Bladder

• Stores and releases bile • Controls judgment • Controls the Sinews (Tendons), with the Liver

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Yang Organs Bladder or Urinary Bladder (pang-guang)

Functions of the Bladder (Urinary Bladder)

• Stores/excretes urine but also has role in transformation of fluids necessary for the production of urine

• Removes water by Qi transformation

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Yang Organs Triple Burner or Heater (san-jiao)

Functions of the Triple Burner (Heater)

• Called the sixth Yang organ • Commander in chief of all the Qi in the various organs

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Microcosmic Orbit

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Three Main Circuits in the Flow of Qi

Qi and blood flow through the channels by way of the Luo (Connecting) points in the order depicted by arrows in the following diagram.

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About Roger Jahnke OMD Director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi

Roger Jahnke, OMD is a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine with thirty years of clinical

practice and eight research trips to China to study its healing traditions. He is director of the Institute

of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC), and serves as a consultant to hospitals, social service

agencies, and corporations in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CAM/IM), wellness, and

medical cost reduction.

Dr. Jahnke is author of The Healer Within (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999) used in Mind-Body programs

worldwide. His most recent book, The Healing Promise of Qi (McGraw-Hill, 2002) has become an

instant classic in the western literature on Qigong and Tai Chi. In November 2005, Dr. Jahnke co-

convened the National Expert Meeting on Qi Gong and Tai Chi in collaboration with the University

of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Blueprint for Active Aging. This collaboration of

more than thirty recognized experts in Qi Gong and Tai Chi, physical activity and aging, and

biomedical research gathered to explore, recommend, and document strategies for proliferating

accessible Qi Gong and Tai Chi programs.