The Gall Bladder, within Traditional Chinese Medicine, is considered a curious viscera as well as a Fu or Yang viscera. The Gall Bladder:

• Is the only one that does not deal with food, drinks or waste products.
• Is the only one that, being of Yang character, stores a precious substance: bile.
• Does not communicate with the exterior like the other Yang viscera.

Energetic functions

• Stores and excretes bile.
• Controls the sinews.
• Its maximum energy is from 11pm to 1 am.

Stores and excretes bile

Receives Bile coming from the Liver.

• It stores and excretes it during the digestive process.
• The Ming Men provides heat to the Gall Bladder, the Spleen and the intestines to facilitate digestion.

Controls the Sinews

Like the Liver, the Gall Bladder controls the sinews.

• The Liver provides nutrition to them through Liver-Blood.
• The Gall Bladder provides Qi to the sinews so that they move correctly and have agility.

The best point for this is GB-34, gathering point of the sinews.

Psycho-emotional functions

Influences the capacity to make decisions.

• The Liver influences the capacity to organize and plan life.
• The Gall Bladder provides the courage to make decisions.
• All the Zang-Fu organs depend on the Gall Bladder's capacity to make decisions in the sense of the motivation it gives to the rest.

The power of initiative and the capacity to make changes in life are driven by a healthy and strong Gall Bladder.

• The Kidney provides the will-power needed to continue with actions in daily life.
• The Gall Bladder takes that will-power and converts it into determination and vitality.

Main symptoms of dysfunction

• Pain or distension of the hypochondrium.
• Bitter taste in the mouth.
• Jaundice.
• Nausea, vomiting.
• Dizziness.
• Tinnitus, deafness.
• Otitis, ear pain with suppuration.
• Migraine, lateral headache.
• Alternation of heat and chills.

Related syndromes and pathologies

• Gall Bladder Syndromes.
• Wood Element Pathology.
• Shao Yang Syndrome.

Pathologies

• Migraine.
• Biliary colic, cholecystitis.
• Otitis.
• Vertigo.
• Tinnitus.

Channels

• Gall Bladder Channel.
• Divergent Channel of Gall Bladder.
• Connecting Channel of Gall Bladder.
• Muscle Channel of Gall Bladder.

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