It seems like everything has to do with qi in Chinese Medicine! Qi can be describes as the life force behind everything, and it is a yang substance. It has 5 main roles:
1- Promoting: It is the commander of blood, as well as the power behind everything
2- Warming: Maintains the constant temperature of the body, as well as the circulation of blood and body fluid.
3- Defending: Defends the bodes surface, and plays a role in preventing outside invasions.
4- Consolidating: Keeps things where they should be, thereby preventing abnormal loss of fluid.
5- Transforming: Has the ability to change.
Qi is always moving through our bodies. It can go up (yang), down (yin), in, or out. There are several different types of qi, all of them are important to our health and wellbeing:
- Primordial qi: We are born with this, as it is generated from our parents during the pregnancy stage. It is stored in the kidneys, as is depleted as we use it. It's main function is to aid in growth and development, but it also warms and promotes.
- Pectoral qi: This is also stored by the kidneys, and is derived from clear qi (air) inhaled by our lungs, as well as essential qi transformed by our stomach and spleen. The main functions of pectoral qi are to promote lung respiration, help strengthen voice and breath, move qi and blood, and regulate heart rhythm.
- Nutritive qi: This type of qi is derived from our food and drinks. Its main function is to nourish the blood, as well as to form blood. Stomach and spleen are responsible for the creation of it, and it exists within our blood vessels.
- Clean qi: This type of qi is created by the air we breathe into our lungs. Its main functions are to promote the circulation of qi, as well as dispersing wei qi (defence) to our bodies exterior.
- Wei qi: This is essentially the western version of an immune system.
- Defensive qi: Similarly to wei qi, defensive qi seeks to protect us from disease. It is created by the stomach and spleen, and generally flows outside of the blood vessels. In addition to protection, defensive qi also controls the opening and closing of interstitial space (fluid compartments) which allows for the excretion of sweat, as well as aids in the function of warming and nourishing the viscera, muscles, skin and hair.
1- Promoting: It is the commander of blood, as well as the power behind everything
2- Warming: Maintains the constant temperature of the body, as well as the circulation of blood and body fluid.
3- Defending: Defends the bodes surface, and plays a role in preventing outside invasions.
4- Consolidating: Keeps things where they should be, thereby preventing abnormal loss of fluid.
5- Transforming: Has the ability to change.
Qi is always moving through our bodies. It can go up (yang), down (yin), in, or out. There are several different types of qi, all of them are important to our health and wellbeing:
- Primordial qi: We are born with this, as it is generated from our parents during the pregnancy stage. It is stored in the kidneys, as is depleted as we use it. It's main function is to aid in growth and development, but it also warms and promotes.
- Pectoral qi: This is also stored by the kidneys, and is derived from clear qi (air) inhaled by our lungs, as well as essential qi transformed by our stomach and spleen. The main functions of pectoral qi are to promote lung respiration, help strengthen voice and breath, move qi and blood, and regulate heart rhythm.
- Nutritive qi: This type of qi is derived from our food and drinks. Its main function is to nourish the blood, as well as to form blood. Stomach and spleen are responsible for the creation of it, and it exists within our blood vessels.
- Clean qi: This type of qi is created by the air we breathe into our lungs. Its main functions are to promote the circulation of qi, as well as dispersing wei qi (defence) to our bodies exterior.
- Wei qi: This is essentially the western version of an immune system.
- Defensive qi: Similarly to wei qi, defensive qi seeks to protect us from disease. It is created by the stomach and spleen, and generally flows outside of the blood vessels. In addition to protection, defensive qi also controls the opening and closing of interstitial space (fluid compartments) which allows for the excretion of sweat, as well as aids in the function of warming and nourishing the viscera, muscles, skin and hair.
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