The road is simple, but it is difficult to explain.
Functions of qi, blood, body fluid and viscera. It is something that supports, serves, manages and regulates the spirit.
Qi, blood, body fluid, meridians and other structures and functions. It is the unity of the highest vitality (essence and subtle things) of life, controlling objects and places.
Life has two sets of system functions.
Namely, a system support life function and control function.
The characteristics of human life include metabolism, induction, reproduction and aging.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this life core process is the expression process of Chinese medicine philosophical spirit, unified function, regulation, management life core and highest vitality function.
The highest core process of life is the process of genes, heredity and aging. Metabolism and sensitivity are the formal contents in the process of supporting and assisting the highest core of life. It is also the way and method to serve the main core life activities.
Spirit is the synthesis of matter, energy, information and image.
Between essence and spirit, the basis of transformation is temperature, gasification and change.
The main body of storing, releasing and moistening functional substances is essence and qi, and the regulator is spirit.
The subject of determination, transmission, promotion and stimulation is qi, the object of adjustment is God, and the basis of object is essence.
The subject of feeling, control and introduction is God, the object is essence, and the foundation of transportation and transformation is Qi. The whole life, or the universe, is the rule of this law.
Organisms, living beings, all have a dynamic functional system. Essence is the basis of material structure. Qi is functional energy. God is the activity of consciousness, spirit and soul. Physical phenomena are part of the spirit.