Zangfu

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The zangfu (simplified Chinese: 脏腑; traditional Chinese: 臟腑; pinyin: zàngfǔ) are a system of organ-related functional concepts in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), that are built on a cultural view or belief system that has been influenced by Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese folk religion. In this view the Zangfu occupied a fundamentally different conceptual position than what is understood with in Western evidence based biomedicine today, instead of just being just formative structures, they are relationship or pattern based observations of connections and networks. In this ancient theory the Suwen (素問) often translated as Basic Questions or Plain Questions, is the foundational theoretical text of traditional Chinese medicine within this text it is stated that the zangfu were not strictly just physical organs but had an energetic component, this early text integrated a foundational understanding of gross anatomy with systemic, cosmological relationships. In this ancient East Asian cultural...

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