足阳明胃经为何循行于胸腹部

The Reason Why the Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming Moves Along the Chest and Abdomen

人体胸腹部属阴,足阳明胃经为三阳中阳气最盛之经,其循行于胸腹部,既可充养阳经,又可固护阴经,有平衡阴阳之意。胃经为阳,冲脉为阴,足阳明胃经循行于胸腹部可能也与平衡冲脉之阴有关。胃的盛衰影响五脏,胃既可以充养人体的气血,又可以调节人体的经脉,足阳明胃经气血旺盛,循行于阴盛的胸腹部,起到调节人体气血经脉的作用,同时也濡养全身经络脏腑的气血。胃虽然为阳土,但其实有母寓之阴,其脉既循行于属阳的区域,又循行于属阴的区域,体现了胃阳中寓阴的特征。足阳明胃经向里循行至胸腹部与太阴相接,使太阴经气得开,衔接了开合枢。足阳明胃经循行于胸腹部,揭示了人体脏腑经络之间阴阳互根,五脏相关,相互联系,相互依存,密不可分的整体关系。

The Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming is the most abundant of the three yang meridians.It moves along chest and abdomen,can not only nourish the yang meridians,but also strengthen the yin meridians,which means to balance yin and yang.The Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming belongs to yang meridian,while chong mai is a yin meridian,so that the Stomach Meridian moves along chest and abdomen may also be related to the balance yin of chong mai.The rise and fall of the stomach affects the five zang organs.The stomach can not only nourish qi and blood of the human body,but also regulate the meridians of the human body.The Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming is full of enough qi and blood.It runs along the chest and abdomen where there is sufficient yin,and plays the role of regulating qi and blood meridians of the human body,and also nourishes them.Although the stomach is yang soil,it actually has yin.Its meridian not only follows the area of yang,but also the area of yin,which embodies the characteristics of yin in the stomach yang.The Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming moves inward to connect with the Taiyin in the chest and abdomen,which makes the Taiyin meridians’qi open,and connect the opening and closing pivots.That the Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming circulates in the chest and abdomen reveals the integral close relationship between yin and yang,the five viscera,the internal organs and the meridians.