The Differences & Relationships Between Organs

You can think of the zang organs as your body’s production department, and the fu organs as the processing department. Or you might like to picture your zang organs as factories full of machinery, whereas your fu organs are warehouses – waiting to be filled!

We mentioned before that there are intricate relationships among your organs. In fact, each zang (yin) organ has a fu (yang) pair. Each pair of organs performs an important physiological function.

For example, your stomach rots and ripens food while your spleen transforms and transports the end products of he digestive process (If you’ve read the page about chi you’ll know that your stomach and spleen create much of your acquired chi.)

Here’s a table, which shows each pair of zang-fu organs.

** These additional organs of the Zang Fu are not always included in Zang Fu lists.