“Wood becomes prosperous and restricts metal” is the TCM explanation for pathological link of liver and lung. Liver (wood) ascending excessively or inflammation in the liver, and liver yang can be transmitted to the lung, causing loss of purifying and descending and lung yin deficiency. Intestinal endotoxemia in Western medicine causing liver and lung damage also has the pathological mechanism of liver diseases transmitting to lung. This article expounded the scientific connotation by comparing the different understanding of the relation betw...
