title: A study on the relations between channels and zangfu organs.
abstract: The interrelation between channels and zangfu organs is one of the key problems in the theory of channels and collaterals. Based on the large amount of records scattered in the TCM literatures and achievements of modern researches, this essay explains the pertaining-and-linking, the connecting, the order of qi-flow, and the interior-exterior relations of the channels with zangfu organs in a new way of thinking.
authors.affiliation: School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.
authors.forename: Zhi-feng
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019413:Qi; D015398:Signal Transduction; D016709:Yin-Yang