Blood Flashcards
(31 cards)
What is the house of blood?
Blood vessels! Because blood circulates the whole body inside of them.
What is the Chinese word for blood?
Xue
Could blood be called a yin or yang essential substance?
Yin!
What two components create blood (blood is composed of)?
Nutritive (yin) qi, and jin body fluid created by jing (jin not ye).
_________ can also be converted into blood.
Jing (essence) - to us stem cells, which create red and white blood cells.
What two organs create nutritive qi to transform food into nutrients (vitamins, minerals, etc).
Spleen and stomach.
This nutritive qi permeates BLOOD* via BODY FLUID* to deeply enrich the QUALITY* of the blood.
What two deficiencies create or result with a blood deficiency?
Body fluid and nutritive qi
What two important things are responsible for the production of nutritive qi (essential for blood)?
Robust spleen and stomach! And, a balanced diet.
Describe or name the two kinds of blood deficiency.
Lacking body blood QUALITY or QUANTITY.
True or false? Jing (essence/stem cells) & blood are inter-promoting and inter-dependent.
True!
Where is Jing (essence/stem cells) stored in the body? At what organ?
Kidney.
Where is blood stored in the body? At what organ?
Liver.
Sufficient kidney jing (essence) supplies nourishment for the liver, where blood is stored.
As __________ enters the liver it is transformed into blood.
Jing (essence).
What are the two things that are the deepest form of nourishment with a common source?
Blood, and jing (essence).
Blood is produced by what two organs?
Spleen and stomach.
Blood is coordinated by what three organs?
Liver, kidney, and heart.
True or false? Circulation is necessary for all functions and activity within the body.
True!
Circulation is governed in part by _______ and _______ of blood.
Quality and quantity.
Because if blood is deficient it will lack the volume (fluid amount) needed to create force (push against the vessel wall to move blood and raise blood pressure) and will become STAGNATED (stuck).
Does temperature have to do with blood circulation? If so, how?
Cold blood “lava” = clots, solidified, coagulated.
Hot blood “lava” = rampant flow, nose bleeds, exploding effect.
The circulation of blood is dependent on the movement generated by _______.
Qi!
If qi is abundant then blood can circulate with vitality. That action in turn does promote qi generation.
Qi controls what two blood actions?
Blood movement and direction.
Describe the result of extreme blood qi increase and decrease.
As qi raises or can be discovered in abundance = contained blood.
Deficient qi = blood stagnation or leakage.
The blood flow control and movement functions change.
Give 4 examples of blood vessel wall integrity (opened/closed) changes that directly affect circulation.
Injuries, surgeries (cuts), pressures (cutting off circulation), and blockage caused by inappropriate diet.
All interrupt smooth blood flow through the vessels (house the blood).
Functions of blood? Blood is the ultimate body source of what two things?
Yin and nourishment.
