human body system-Jing Luo (17)

Huang Di Nei Jing stated that of all the 11 organs, the gallbladder is the leader. From scientific point of view it has its reason. Liver produce bile and is stored in gallbladder. Bile is excreted to breakdown the food in our stomach and intestine so that nutritions and mineral can be absored into our body system. If a person has sufficient raw materials for manufacturing blood cells then his “xue qi” will be raised and slowly the conditions of all the other meridians will also be improved which will help to regain the health. Thus it can be seen that nutritions and trace minerals have close relationship with our health. Gallbladder The gallbladder meridian is connected to the gallbladder. It will help to excretion bile. Bile is manufactured by liver however due to the process of aging, the production of bile decreases thereby affecting the efficiency of one's digesting system. Since there is lack of bile in the digesting system, food cannot be effectively broken down for absorption by our digestive system hence the amount of nutrition that can be absorbed also decreases. It is a chain reaction! Since there is insufficiency of raw materials for the production of blood cells, the amount of blood also decreases. Blood will transport energy (qi) and nutrition to cells however due to insufficiency of blood, the amount of qi and nutrition that can be transported to the cells also correspondingly decrease which will result in one's poor health and thereby giving rise to a host of sickness. Though western medical practitioners do not believe the theory of blood energy (qi xue) but they can't disprove its existence ! Scientists also can't prove what is the minimum requirement of blood or energy in a human body. Once the amount of blood is less, the amount of essential nutrients and minerals that can be transported to the cells or capillary veins or arteries also become lesser thereby lowering the functions of our body systems which slowly give rise to a host of sickness. From Chinese medical practitioners point of view, once the amount of energy and blood is lowered, negative energy in the body cannot be or is unable to be expelled but on the other hand will slowly build up and gather force in the body which at the end will interfere with the balancing of 5 elements, namely, metal, wood, water, fire and earth and once such balance is being disturbed symptoms of sickness will surface. As it is commonly known sickness will be in existence far ahead of its symptoms. Furthermore, due to the pressure of work especially nowadays, many of our emotions have been suppressed whether voluntarily or involuntarily thereby affecting the functions of our gallbladder and liver which in turn will give rise to sickness. Liver and gallbladder are correlated. When the meridian of liver is toxified, it will by its own nature transfer such pressure to the gallbladder meridian in order to relief itself of such pressure. The gallbladder will eventually be blocked. For such reason we should always try to alleviate any blockage of gallbladder meridian and that once the blockages have been eased or alleviated our liver will be able to function properly As we age, the production of bile also year by year becomes lesser and lesser. In order to increase the excretion or production of bile, we must then assist our body to produce the bile for the need of our body system. How to assist our body in order to produce more bile ? From the textbook of Huang Di Nei Jing ( earliest Chinese Medical Text) and researches and also based on our experiences, it was found that we can help our body to produce more bile by activating or agitating our gallbladder meridian.