The Theoretical Research Of Kidney And Spleen's Relationship

Objective:Kidney and spleen are body's vital organs. Their relations were summed up as "Kidney being the innate foundation, spleen being acquired foundation". As the fundamental role in human body, their relations are more than what we mentioned. First of all, the basic theories of Chinese Medicine is guided by holistic concept. Therefore, kidney and spleen should be discussed within various aspects of functional systems of kidney visceral manifestation and spleen visceral manifestation. What's more, according to the scattered historical documents and the modern research, the discourses about their relativity have been limited only between some aspect of kidney and spleen, not including their major functional system. Correlation theory of kidney and spleen in clinic is not well targeted. Therefore, in order to support the theoretical basis for experimental study of the clinical syndrome, this research will collate, generalize and summarize the content about the relationship of kidney and spleen in the ancient and modern documents, and carries on further discussion for the kidney spleen related connotation and kidney spleen same sickness, treat kidney and spleen simultaneously.Method:Excavation historical documents and modern research; Summarized the clinical experience of Doctors;Refined theory of sublimation. Result:Kidney and spleen's relationship means that kidney system and spleen system associate intimately each other in the pathology and physiology. This paper provides preliminary interpretation of the origin, connotation and clinical application of kidney and spleen's relationship and discusses the relationship that kidney and spleen constrain and depend on each other.Conclusion:The relationship includes:the channels of kidney and spleen are lined each other; kidney-Yang wa(?)s up spleen-Yang; the essence Qi from food stuff can supplement the primordial Qi; they both manage the metabolism of body fluid and production of Qi-blood. Kidney and spleen can communicate Qi-blood by means of twelve regular meridians, eight extra channels, collaterals and meridian-musculatures. The theory of the fine elements. Only if the kidney and the spleen sever each other, can the body be nurtured and function perfectly. It can draw conclusion that kidney and spleen constrains and promote each other, and the both system are solidarity.Pathologically, kidney disease can affect spleen, or spleen disease can affect kidney, or the two organs are in disorders at the same time. According to the therapeutic principle of treating kidney and spleen simultaneously, it can be adopted that treating deficiency syndrome with replenishing method, replenishing deficiency and reducing excess together, design methods such as invigorating the spleen, nourishing kidney, warming kidney and spleen, nourishing kidney-spleen and eliminating pathogenic factors.