The Spleen
Functions of the Spleen
The Spleen is central Organ in production of Qi.
Called the "Foundation of Postnatal existence (后天之本)". Extracts Food Qi (Gu Qi) from food and liquids taken into Stomach. Food Qi is basis for formation of Qi and Blood.
1. Governs transformation and transportation
2. Controls the Blood
3. Controls the muscles and the four limbs
4. Opens into the mouth and manifests in the lips
5. Controls the raising of Qi, the "raising of the pure"
6. The Spleen houses thought
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly,
acutely miserable, racked with sorrow,
but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie
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