The Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine borrowed some tools from China's philosophy, the most important of which is Yin-Yang and Five Elements. The outreach of yin-yang and five elements is gossip, and gossip is also one of the most important tools of traditional Chinese medicine, especially "Wang Wen's gossip".
This model is used for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. As soon as the picture was erected, it fell on the standing person. The top is the plum melon, which corresponds to the heart, and the bottom is the cantaloupe, which corresponds to the kidney, just corresponding to the position of the heart and kidney seen in modern medical anatomy. Then, on the left of Wang Wen's gossip is divination, corresponding to the liver, and on the right is exchange, corresponding to the lungs. This is a problem that has nothing to do with the anatomical position of the liver and lungs. Many people don't understand.
In this way, it is not difficult to find that the liver of TCM just corresponds to the divination position of "Wen Wang Ba Hua" and the lung of TCM just corresponds to the divination position of "Wen Wang Ba Hua". Isn't this "left liver and right lung"? Isn't it "left up and right down"?
Why is the liver on the left and the lung on the right? The main reason is that zang in TCM is a functional description, not a solid organ. Traditional Chinese medicine undoubtedly used the general tool of "Wang Wen's Eight Diagrams" when understanding the functional system of the human body and summarizing it through certain thinking tools. Traditional Chinese medicine liver belongs to wood, four seasons correspond to spring, and the orientation is east. The main functional characteristics of liver qi are ascending, lengthening and ascending, while the left side of "Wang Wen's Eight Diagrams" is the divination of the East, Spring and Yangmu, and the movement of qi is also upward. Traditional Chinese medicine lung belongs to gold, corresponding to autumn and west. Its main function is downward, that is, cold and downward. On the right side of "Wang Wen's Eight Diagrams" is divination, which is autumn and west. Here, Yin and Yang are opposite to divination, and Qi is also cold.
In fact, the Huangdi Neijing also talks about anatomy. For example, the chapter "Stomach and Stomach" introduces the size, length and capacity of the stomach in detail, including the whole digestive tract from lips to rectum; For example, from the word structure, the word "heart" is the anatomical appearance of the heart, and the liver, spleen, lung and kidney all have a common radical called "moon", which is the word "meat", so it can be seen that the earliest viscera is based on the anatomy of the body. The greatness of Huangdi Neijing lies in that it later surpassed physical anatomy and paid attention to function. The greatness of Huangdi Neijing lies in grasping the functions and laws of life from the whole universe of heaven and earth, organizing it into a whole according to the natural laws and functions of heaven and earth, grasping life phenomena from the function and taking care of health from the function point of view.
"Left liver and right lung" refers to the orderly rise and fall of qi and the orderly growth and contraction, so that human life can maintain health. Health preservation is essentially to maintain the vitality of the human body, which is lively, splashing, orderly moving and timely.