A Brief Translation of the Classics of Chinese Medicine Yousi Seed Science: On the Rise and Fall of Male and Female Sperm and Blood in the Jiyin Gangmu (Part 1)

Original text: "On the Rise and Fall of Male and Female Sperm"

Chu (Cheng) Shang Shu Yue: Diet five tastes, nourish the marrow, bone, flesh, blood, skin, hair. Men are yang, there must be yin in the yang, the number eight in the yin, so one eight and the yang rise, two eight and the yang is overflowing; the woman is yin, there must be yang in the yin, the number of the yang is seven, so one seven and yin blood rises, two seven and yin blood overflow. Yang essence yin blood, all eat the five tastes of xiu shiye (the way of prosperity and decline, in the seven losses and eight benefits). Fang Qishengye, intellectually enlightened, teeth and teeth are more beginning, yellowish black, weak and strong; and its overflow, all that are filled with limbs, hands, feet and ears, although the needle and mustard are drained, there is no end, all the children who are like xiao parents, with their sperm and blood taste in the body of their parents, everything is also asphalt. If the father's limb is destroyed, the son's limb is not inferior to his father; if the mother loses one eye, the son does not look down on his mother. ...... To be continued

Shallow translation: Due to the limited level of the author, the improper translation is also expected to be corrected by the majority of colleagues.

Zen Cheng (on menstruation) said: The five tastes of diet can nourish people's bones, bone marrow, muscles, hair, etc. The male body is yang, the yang must contain the yin number, the yin number eight is the largest, so when the eight years old the yang essence began to increase, when the twenty-eighty-six years old, the yang essence is full and begins to overflow. The woman's body belongs to the yin, the yin must contain the yang component, the yang number of seven is the most of a cycle, so the yin blood began to grow at the age of seven, and at the age of twenty-seven and seventy-four, the yin blood in the veins was full and overflowed, which was the filling and appearance of the five tastes. When it (the five tastes of diet) begins to grow, the child's mind begins to be clear, the teeth begin to be replaced and reborn, the hair begins to turn black, and the weak bones begin to turn strong. When it (diet five-flavor essence) begins to overflow, in addition to circulating all over the body, hands and feet, eyes and ears, even if there is a little excess of needle mustard, it will overflow from below with the veins. Whoever looks like his parents is because his sperm and blood have been popular in his parents' bodies, and no place has not been there. Therefore, if the father has a disability in one limb, the child has a limb that is not like the father (with a disability), the mother lacks one eye, and the child has one eye that does not resemble the mother. However, the female bird and the female beast can be fertilized without heavenly decay, what is the reason for this? The blood of birds and beasts only flows on the tail. ...... To be continued