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Regulating the water passages means to regulate the pathways for the circulation and excretion of water. Circulation of body fluids is a function of many organs working together as a team, including the lungs. The role of the lung in promoting and maintaining water metabolism depends on the descending function of lung qi. Under normal circumstances, the lungs are capable of sending fluids downwards to the kidneys, which pass the fluids to the bladder for excretion. Dysfunction may result in dysuria, oliguria, and oedema.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_(Chinese_medicine) Lungs (Chinese Medicine)]</ref> | Regulating the water passages means to regulate the pathways for the circulation and excretion of water. Circulation of body fluids is a function of many organs working together as a team, including the lungs. The role of the lung in promoting and maintaining water metabolism depends on the descending function of lung qi. Under normal circumstances, the lungs are capable of sending fluids downwards to the kidneys, which pass the fluids to the bladder for excretion. Dysfunction may result in dysuria, oliguria, and oedema.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_(Chinese_medicine) Lungs (Chinese Medicine)]</ref> | ||
==Lung Principle Summarized== | |||
* Metal Element | |||
* Inner Organ Pair: Large Intestine | |||
* Circadian Time: 3AM-5AM | |||
* Color: White | |||
* Primary Season: 3 months of Autumn | |||
* Direction: Western, Qi tendency is downward | |||
* Qi Quality: Dryness | |||
* Inhibited by Fire (Heart, Pericardium, [[San Jiao]], Small Intestine) | |||
* Nourishes Water (Kidney & Bladder) | |||
* Inhibits Wood (Liver & Gallbladder) | |||
* Channel: Taiyin | |||
* Emotion: Grief, melancholy, sadness | |||
* Extensions: Skin, Mouth, Throat, Nose | |||
==Functions== | |||
The Lung governs Qi and respiration: Ascending, descending, going out, and coming in energies are influenced by the lungs. | |||
The Lung regulates the water passageways and controls channels and blood vessels. | |||
==Psychology== | |||
The Lung produces uprightness, a firmness and readiness that is related to a psychology of self-righteousness and purity. | |||
Methodical and discerning is a balanced Metal person, they desire and organize the sense of self around order. | |||
The tendencies of energy involve ritual, neatness, reservation and contracted calm. This can lead to imbalanced views arising from false detachment, estrangement of the self, the body or of others as a result of excessive internalization or control of boundaries and beliefs especially those of inner and outer. The aspiration of metal types is self-mastery or humble informational authority. | |||
Metal elemental intelligence strives toward the cocreation and maintenance of the perfect system of relationships and views. Restriction contraction, oppression, repression are negative outcomes of this ambition stress, chaos, crowding are all aversions as these each directly create disturbances to harmonic organization.<ref>[P-OMD references]</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||