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  2. Kidney (Chinese medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Jing is the essence of qi and the basis for body matter and functional activities. There are two types of jing, congenital, prenatal jing and acquired or postnatal jing, which are stored in the kidney and known as kidney jing. Unlike qi, jing circulates in long cycles (seven years for females and eight years for males) governing developmental ...

  3. Three Treasures (traditional Chinese medicine) - Wikipedia

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    They are also known as jing, qi, and shen (Chinese: 精氣神; pinyin: jīng-qì-shén; Wade–Giles: ching ch'i shen; "essence, breath, and spirit"). The French sinologist Despeux summarizes: Jing , qi , and shen are three of the main notions shared by Taoism and Chinese culture alike.

  4. Jing (Chinese medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Jing (Chinese: 精; pinyin: jīng; Wade–Giles: ching 1) is the Chinese word for "essence", specifically Kidney essence. Along with qi and shen , it is considered one of the Three Treasures of traditional Chinese medicine .

  5. Yuanqi - Wikipedia

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    In traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese culture, yuán qì (元氣) or vital qi, innate or prenatal qi.Inborn qi (Jing 精) is differentiated from acquired qi that a person may develop or replenished over their lifetime.

  6. The body in traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia

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    Depressive episodes are characterized by Kidney Yin excess while manic episodes are characterized by Kidney Yang excess. The Kidney Meridian begins on the sole, moves up the inner leg to the groin, up the trunk, and ends under the collarbone. (2) The Bladder, a Yang organ, stores and removes fluid from the body by receiving Kidney chi.

  7. Hara (tanden) - Wikipedia

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    Modern commentators believe that the terms refer to "the kidney reflex area below the umbilicus". [25] The Hara or lower Dantian, as conceptualised by the Chinese and Japanese martial arts, is important for their practice, because it is seen, as the term "Sea of Qi" indicates, as the reservoir of vital or source energy (Yuan Qi). It is, in ...

  8. Huanjing bunao - Wikipedia

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    Huanjing bunao (traditional Chinese: 還精補腦; simplified Chinese: 还精补脑; lit. 'returning the semen/essence to replenish the brain' or coitus reservatus) is a Daoist sexual practice and yangsheng ("nourishing life") method aimed at maintaining arousal for an extended plateau phase while avoiding orgasm.

  9. Urinary bladder (Chinese medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The Bladder is a Yang (Fu) organ; its paired Yin (Zang) organ is the Kidney. Both are associated with the element of water and the emotion of fear. As opposed to western medicine, where the bladders function is the storage and excretion of urine, the bladder in traditional Chinese medicine has extended functions, including how fluids are ...