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• 2 Classification and functions of the Jing Luo

• 2.1.1 The principal Meridians (Jing Zheng)

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• They emcompass (omvat) a Yin-Yang based system and ensure communication between the Zang and Fu organs.

  
  
  

  • Yin meridians related to the Zang organs connect with the Fu organs (for instance: Zu Jue Yin meridian belongs tp liver (Gan) and connects with Gall bladder (Dan))
  • Yang meridians related to the Fu organs connect with the Zang organs. (for instance: Zu Shao Yang meridian belongs to Gall Bladder (dan) ad connects with the liver (Gan))
    

• The intensity of the energy flowing in the Yin or Yang meridians is Shao, Tai, Ming or Jue

  • Shao means: just started, just born, small. Energy in Shao Yang and Shao Yin is young but potentially strong. It is in full growth
  • Tai means: great, supreme. Energy develops and reached its max of activity in Tai Yang and Tai Yin. It crosses its peak and starts decreasing
  • Ming means: clear, bright, luminous
    Jue means: absolute, end, exhausted
  • Yang Ming (=Jue Yang) and Jue Yin represent the terminal phase of Yang and Yin respectively
    

• How meridians run

  • The 3 Yin of the upper limb decend from the chest to the hand
  • The 3 Yang of the upper limb ascend from the hand to the head
  • The 3 Yang of the lower limb descend from the head to the foot
  • The 3 Yin of the lower limb ascend from the foot to the chest
    

• 2.1.2 The tendino-muscular meridians (Jing jin)

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• What do muscle function depend on?

  • The muscle function depends on teh Spleen (Pi) and Liver (Gan) and especially the blood (Xue) of these two organs
  • Thanks to the nutrive function (Yin), the spleen (Pi) controls teh form (Xing), or the muscle bulk, wheras the liver (Gan) is responsible for the Yang aspect of bulk muscle function, the contarctillityof muscles and tendons
  • The spleen elaborates the Qi and the Xue nourishes and huminidfies the muscles
    

• 2.1.3 The divergent meridians (Jing Bie)

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• What are divergent meridians?

  • The divergent meridians are 12 in number an bilateral.
  • They dreive from the principal meridians and depend on the latter.
  • Their role is tp complete the functions of the regular meridians by insuring the link 2 meridians and 2 viscera of opposite polarity (Yin-Yang

• The divergent meridians (like the principal meridians) present Yin-Yang relations among themselves. Name the couples or unions

  • First union: divergent meridians of the urinary bladder Zu Thai Yang and Kidney, Zu Shao Yin
  • Second union: divergent meridians of the gall bladder Zu Shao Yang and Liver Zu Jue Yin
  • Third union: divergent meridians of the stomach Zu Yang Ming an Spleen Zu Tai Yin
  • Fourt union: divergent meridians of the small intestine Shou Tai Yang and Heart Shou Shao Yin
  • Fifth union: divergent meridians of the tripple burner Shou Shao Yang and Pericardium Shou Jue Yin
  • Sixt union: divergent meridians of the Large intestine Shou Yang Ming and Lung Shou Tai YIn
    

• After having separated from its principal meridian, the Yin divergent meridian?

  • Join the Zang organ it is related to, then teh coupled Fu organ
  • unites with the Yang divergent meridian in the area where the latter joins its principal meridian

• 2.1.4 The irregular meridians (Qi Jing Ba Mai)

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• The irregular meridians are 8 in number and grouped in 4 Yang, meridians and 4 Yin neridians

  4 Yang meridians:
  

  1. Du Mai
  2. Dai Mai
  3. Yang Qiao Mai
  4. Yang Wei Mai

  
  
  4 Yin meridians
  

  1. Ren Mai
  2. Chong Mai
  3. Yin Qiao Mai
  4. Yin Wei Mai
     

• What is the mai role of the irregular meridians

  • To reinforce the connection between the regular meridians, to regulate Qi and Xue
  • exces of Qi and Xue in the principal meridians flows into and concentrates in the 8 irregular meridians, where it is stored, to be redistributed in case of a deficiency in the regular meridians
    

• 3 Organization of the Jing Luo

• 3.1 The meridian System

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• 12 systems harmonize the exterior (Biao) and interior (Li relations)

  • Lung Shou Tai Yin
  • Large Intestine Shou yang Ming
  • Stomach Zu Yang Ming
  • Spleen Zu Tai Yin
  • Heart Shou Shao Yin
  • Small Intestine Shou Tai Yang
  • Urinary Bladder Zu Tai Yang
  • Kidney Zu Shao Yin
  • Pericardium Shou Jue Yin
  • Triple burner Shou Shao Yang
  • Gall Bladder Zu Shao Yang
  • Liver Zu Jue Yin

  
  
  In general each system includes
  

  • a principal meridian (Jing Zheng)
  • a tendino-muscular meridian (Jing JIn)
  • a collateral (Luo Mai)
  • A divergent meridian (Jing Bie)

  
  
  The cutaneous zones (Pi, Bu) round off the meridian systems