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留学生班《中医学》第三章脏腑学说讲稿附三院周颖芳Hello, everyone!Today we’ll talk about the theory of viscera and bowels. I am from the third affiliated hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, my name is Zhou Yingfang. I know you have learnt Yin-yang and the five elements doctrines, which make it easier to understand what we’ll learn today.Objectives After the learning of this chapter, you should master the concept of viscera and bowels, the characteristics, the main functions of the five zang-organs and the six fu-organs, and the mutual relationships among them. At the beginning of learning TCM, not only you, but also the Chinese students have the problem in understanding and accepting the theory of TCM, because it is really different from that of the western medicine. I hope, from now on, you can make yourselves completely into the thinking mode of traditional Chinese medicine. Just like the picture, western medicine and TCM are two different ways, but their purposesare to deal with diseases and make human beings healthy.Let’s see the meaning of the Chinese words of viscera, 藏象。Zang has two pronunciations, one is cang, which means hiding; another is zang, which means the internal organs. Xiang indicates the phenomena and shapes/forms. These two words together implicate the physiological functions and pathological changes of the organs inside our body. The visceral manifestation theory is an important component of TCM. It consists of the study of the physiology and pathology of all the viscera, and the relationship between viscera. In Chinese medicine, each organ is a complex system which encompasses many aspects, such as, the material-anatomical body parts, mind-body-spirit connection, individual constitution, tissues, organs, and surrounding environment. This paradigm is the core of TCM. We divide the internal organs of the body into three kinds:The first one is five zang-viscera, which includes heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney. Their physiological function is to produce and store