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How to link the 1st Yang Organ - The Small Intestine with the TCM Yin Organ

Hey,  how is everything going on?  As mentioned earlier, the correlated match for The Heart is The TCM Small Intestine.  I'm back to show you How to link the 1st Yang Organ - The Small Intestine with the TCM Yin Organ.  However, there are some new

TCM FUNDAMENTALS

to be listed out now so that interpretation and comprehension would be so much easier.  The 6 Yang Organs will take charge of: 

  1. Digestion
  2. Transformation
  3. Absorption of CLEAR nourishment and 
  4. Excretion of the faeces
As a result, they formed the Transfer tubular channel for the nutrient strictly complying to these 2 rules as: 
For example, although it may be congested in the stomach after the mealtime, the small intestine is empty waiting for the transfer from the stomach.  In other words, they only transfer and do not store as their prime physiological purposes.  At the same time, they(as the tubular vessels) maintain this channel passage free and clear to achieve the effect of usability and lower the turbidity as smooth sailing in the TCM pathological perspective. 
On the contrary, the 5 Yin Organs would comply to as:
One good example is the pulse when the heart pumps the blood through the arteries and capillaries, the vessels are filled without spillover yet not congested under normal condition in that sense. They are stored and the pulse is felt.
Now, how does the Pericardium comes into the limelight to act as the 6th Yin Organ to backup the triple burner(San Jiao)?  The answer lies in the Pericardium Meridian path linking up with San Jiao Meridian path right at the Pericardium.  They backup each other exterior-interiorly as well as to form the Yin Yang pair, using the Heart as the dominating centre to regulate the whole body as one complete entity.
Ok, I've only listed out the outlines on the 12 Yin Yang organs so that the illustration would be easier.

  • Yin -------------------- Yang
  • Heart------------------Small Intestine
  • Lung-------------------Big Intestine
  • Spleen----------------Stomach
  • Liver-------------------Gall Bladder
  • Kidney----------------Bladder
  • Pericardium-------Triple Burner(San Jiao)
And that's not all because the human body cannot complete the lifecycle and its structure with only 12 Yin Yang organs.  
It is necessary to include: 
Ok, it is important to start with a new paragraph to separate the 12 Yin Yang organs from these remaining organs.  Am I going too fast?
So how are you going to remember the brain, bones, bone marrow, pulse, gall bladder and uterus?  First of all, they are neither Yin nor Yang in nature except the Gall Bladder.
Although the Gall Bladder takes part in the digestion process it does not store and only transfers the digested food.  Therefore the Gall Bladder which is a Yang Organ, due to its resemblance to the testicle physiological function, is uniquely classified into a special grouping called the extraordinary organs. Why is it called extraordinary organs and not something else?  The reason is very simple, it is for easy memorising.  The actual classification for Yang Organs is the nature of the tubular vessel, however, it is so much easier to remember Yin, Yang and Extraordinary organs than other names.  Only terminology and nothing else.
I just leave it as of now and would discuss the reasons and so on why ordinary and yet extra in 3 blogs later.
Therefore the Extraordinary organ is the special tubular vessel conforming to tubular characteristic except that it is special in that sense.

The Small Intestine


You may wonder what is Hepatoduodenal Ligament when I first introduce this in the Liver's clan.  This is the ligament linking the Liver to the Duodenum which is the first segment of the Small Intestine from the Pylorus of the Stomach. 


A diagram showing the position of the Duodenum


The reason why the Small intestine and Heart are correlated match is that the link-up of these 2 pertaining meridian paths to function as the 

This is applied across all the other organs and why they are best-correlated match using the same TCM principle by the specific meridian path link up.  They back up each other in the TCM perspective in that sense.  


Physiological Functions:

1) serve as Collection Centre and further Digestion 

The TCM Small Intestine collect and further digests especially at the duodenum, where the bile and pancreatic secretion are injected into the digested food from the stomach.  Over here, I'm only concerned about the TCM aspects of the absorption process.  So after a specific time allowed for the further digestion,  the TCM small intestine would tie-up with Spleen Qi to converts the digested food into useful nourishment for

  •  the uprise of 'clear' material and 
  •  lower the 'turbid' faeces into the big intestine.

So in terms of pathological studies, once the transformation stops which means gasification of Qi is affected, and the most probable consequence will be abdominal pain as a result of Qi stagnation occurrence in the process.

Since gasification had stopped, further absorption in the small intestine will be baffled and would lead to a bloated effect or even prolonged daily watery stool or short term diarrhoea.

2) raise Clear and excrete Turbidity

It is very important that the TCM Small Intestine can carry out the physiological function of:

Here is where the Emperor's Interior Sutra stipulated: (To irrigate all surrounding areas from the central Earth) unquoted.  This means the small intestines will absorb and distribute the clear nourishment via the effective path of the Spleen Qi to all parts of the body.  
The remaining balances consisting of (faeces and some portion of the fluid) will be transferred to the Large Intestine via the ILEOCECAL valve for water re-absorption and excretion through the Anus.











***Reference:

Emperor's Interior Sutra is available on sales better known as the esoteric scripture of the yellow emperor in Amazon, it's just a different way of naming the book cover)





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