Traditional Chinese Medicine Origin and Exploration of Lung Generating Blood
HUANG Lina
ZHANG Wei
ZANG Guodong
LIU Xue
Abstract：Professor ZHANG Wei innovatively puts forward the theory of"Lung generating blood",which believes that the lung not only participates in the production of blood,but also directly generates blood.The team preliminarily explores lung generating blood in terms of the lung dominating qi and harboring the fluids,the lung dominating the ascending and descending of qi,and the lung governing the convergence of vessels.In order to deeply excavate the connotation of lung generating blood in Chinese medicine,the team further applies the digital platform of ancient Chinese medical books to sort out the origin of lung generating blood in Chinese medicine,and has found that"lung generating blood"related thesis first appeared in The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period,subsequently,the relevant ancient books of various periods have been expanded and deepened from the perspectives of the lungs being the main source of qi and qi generating blood.In the Ming and Qing dynasties,the concept of lung qi generatein blood was interpreted,and it was believed that the lung was the master of qi of the whole body,and the blood would be generated when qi was flourishing.The synergistic roles of Spleen-Earth,Heart-Fire,and Kidney-Water in the generation of lung blood were recognized during this period.Among other things,spleen-earth provides the material basis for lung blood;the lung-metal is the wife of heart-fire,lung yin combines with heart fire to generate blood.It is also held that the kidney contains qi,it is responsible for the generation of water and marrow,and passes up through the diaphragm into the lungs,and is the important foundation of the formation of pulmonary blood.It can be seen that the ideas related to the theory of lung generateing blood has a long history,which provides a theoretical source and clinical guidance for the identification and treatment of lung diseases from blood by paying more attention to"lung blood deficiency","blood stasis in the lungs"and even"stasis poison",which provides a theoretical source and clinical guidance for the treatment of lung diseases from the blood.
Keywords：lung generating bloodZHANG Weitraditional Chinese medicine originextensive reading of medical booksmutual generation of lung-metal and kidney-water
Publication Date：2025-03-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 270-275 )