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Body fluids refer to the different kinds of physiological fluids found in the body, including fluids in the organs and tissues, gastric fluid, intestinal fluid, semen and tears. Classified as one of the fundamental substances, body fluids are essential to life activities.

TCM views blood as simply a red fluid inside the blood vessels that provides nutrition for the body. The nutrients transported by blood are not restricted to physical materials; they can also be extended to anything that provides nourishment to the body.

In TCM, qi is a widely used term. Qi is the vital substance constituting the human body. Physicians also refer it to the disease factors, medicinal properties, organ functions, pathological conditions and products, food nutrition or inherited factors sometimes. Most often, it is best defined according to its functions and…